So big Navy watched Tiger King and thought, "you know what, we could do better than this." The foundation is already there. The Navy is rife with substance abuse issues, weird sex stuff, and leadership that is questionable at best making life changing decisions on a whim. It's almost too easy to compare the two things.
Well, the Navy took the drama and turned it up to 11 this last week. We're all dealing with it now right? The crushing isolation and the fact that going outside might mean major illness. It really brings you down. Maybe so much so that Acting SECNAV Modly jumped on the opportunity to get out of his house to fly all the way to Guam to deal with a CO's letter going public about COVID-19 spreading through his crew. Sure, is that a little extreme? Maybe. I don't think anyone was ready for what happened next though. Let's have a listen shall we?
So there's a lot to unpack here and I don't really have the time for that. One thing is for certain, you gotta respect the confidence. Imagine Steve Balmer getting on the PA at Microsoft campus and berating their employees for liking Bill Gates and shitting all over they guy that took the company into the Fortune 500... Obviously, this didn't end well for Modly.
So where does that leave us? The ship's crew could get they're old CO back but we all know that's quite a pipe dream. That would mean Big Navy would have to admit the whole thing was a mistake, but we're living in a new reality so anything could happen...
