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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Preliminary reports look a lot like a deliberate act by the Crystal.
I will reserve judgement until the facts are all in.
The Captain appears to be among the casualties.
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Yes, sir. I concur. I'm just this old hump-backed fire horse-fart full of more opinion and piss than patience and brains. Just can't ignore the frustrating decline in Command-at-sea leadership with corruption and immorality that we've seen lately, but what-the-hell, this may not be anything new either. I just rage inside over the waste of it all and I'm not proud of my rage. I've served in ships where the wardroom was terrified to call their CO in the middle of the night and on others where they wouldn't call because they had become arrogant and thought they could figure out any problem on their own. There's a philosophy maybe an assumption of leadership and Command, but there is likewise assumptions in follower-ship. Either or both can fail, and always seem to fail when the timing is at it's worst. I can't imagine the absolute grief of the families of those lost, and likewise the agony and collapse of spirit the CO and crew feels right now. I have every confidence that the Navy will wring out every fact in the JAG. The CO will surely be relieved for cause at the very least, and others will face Courts Martial's, but none of that will console the grieving loved ones. In those ships where morale is high and the crew confident so much success is the result of consistent training and damned good leadership, but almost as much from pure dumb luck.
"Sleep thou lightly, O Nakoda...it has not been told to me that the sea has ceased to be the sea." I guess Kipling had a valid point.