U.S. Navy relieves commander of coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier

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5. This is just ass covering

The ship is more or less incapacitated as it has diverted from it’s preplanned mission essential operational schedule. Therefore heads must roll. this would have happened in any case with or without the letter or press leak. I wonder if the strike force commander is or was on the ship.

Also, the fundamental lapse in judgement was the port call in Danang while there were known covid cases in country. What is the point of a nuclear powered vessel if you continue to make port calls when there is literally no need to do so?

It’s the same conundrum with the pending RIMPAC exercise. Are some of those forces actually going to be allowed to land or go ashore, in Hawaii?