Originally Posted by Lennie
The challenge is leadership. How would the captain have acted in combat with casualties on board?


Dunno, but he had to have been a sharp guy, how many Navy guys get to Captain an air craft carrier?

Also had to know going public would be a career-ending move.

Perhaps he acted to best ensure the welfare of the people on that ship, personal cost be damned.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744