"Loose Lips Sink Ships Careers"! In this case, both of the people involved got torpedoed! The SECNAV was a real douche canoe- - - - -I doubt if anyone will miss him. It sounds like the captain put his crew's well-being above his own self-interest. I'd be honored to sail with him.
Jerry
Be interesting to know as suggested above if he had first gone up the chain of command and got stonewalled, so he then did what he did.
His crew who were on the scene seem to have been impressed.
