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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:54 AM Mar 2020

Captain of nuclear aircraft carrier docked in Guam pleads for resources as 200 sailors test positive

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David B. Larter
@DavidLarter

I've never seen anything like this.

Captain of Theodore Roosevelt pens a four-page letter pleading for resources, says the situation is rapidly spinning out of control as nearly 200 sailors test positive: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

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Captain of nuclear aircraft carrier docked in Guam pleads for resources as 200 sailors test positive (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Mar 2020 OP

Not good. n/t Laelth Mar 2020 #1

So, Trump is now actively compromising national defense at the strategic level. Miguelito Loveless Mar 2020 #2

Not surprised it spread so fast. Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #3

Probably have the captain reprimanded for this becoming public JHB Mar 2020 #5

We are defenseless. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #4

"Pleading"? Tbear Mar 2020 #6

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

1. Not good. n/t

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:55 AM

Mar 2020

-Laelth

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)

2. So, Trump is now actively compromising national defense at the strategic level.

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:56 AM

Mar 2020

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)

3. Not surprised it spread so fast.

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:02 AM

Mar 2020

Quarters are ridiculously tight on Navy ships. Wonder what the stable genius is going to do about this?

JHB

(37,160 posts)

5. Probably have the captain reprimanded for this becoming public

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:05 AM

Mar 2020

gibraltar72

(7,504 posts)

4. We are defenseless.

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:02 AM

Mar 2020

Tbear

(487 posts)

6. "Pleading"?

Reply to Mrs. Overall (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:14 AM

Mar 2020

Really?
I don't care for that verbiage.
I can see a USN Captain urgently requesting.

The projected power of the USA is with our carriers. We can only hope Russia and China are too ill or too smart to take advantage.

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