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If you think a carrier is a bad place for Covid to hit, just think about a submarine. Even less space. The big thing is that they are self-isolated, but you need to make sure the next crew is completely clean before embarking.

I think Adm Baker is in full CYA mode. The spotlight is fully on him now, especially since the letter is public. The questions will be (or should be) how much of this is true? What did you know, and what did you do about it? Did you raise this with Seventh Fleet? If not, why not? So on and...

I might throw out that Seventh Fleet already had problems stemming from the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions. The commander at the time was relieved, so there may well be an uncomfortable spotlight there before Covid hit. If it's true that things were bungled, it could be that Seventh Fleet...

The most important component of the carrier is the aircrew. If your air wing pilots are all sick, then a carrier is entirely useless and another wing needs to be deployed. Cruising on patrol with a crippled air wing isn't very useful.

I would think this would be a PACFLEET decision. SECNAV would have gotten a heads up or a FYI, maybe even a concur, but this action seems to be way higher that would warrant. Even the Fitzgerald collision fallout wasn't until after the investigation and the relieving of the Seventh Fleet...

OK, thanks. Did not know this. But it might just make him look worse on the surface of it all.

He's a captain of a carrier, he probably was a flight leader, squadron commander, or maybe a CAG before getting this billet. So he knows the chain. I'd find it hard to believe he jumped everybody, this letter is basically documentation of what he believes to be the case as the CO of the ship...

Modly sounds like the kind of civilian who knows absolutely nothing about the military chain of command. Crozier knew exactly what he was doing by documenting everything, and now that it's out, the questions are now on said chain.

Personally, the real issue for me is not paying the EV tax. It's paying the EV tax all at once. At least when I drive an IC vehicle, I pay the gas tax incrementally. Yeah, I might pay more in taxes, but it's spread over however many times I stop to fill up. With the EV tax, it seems that...

Adams should consider himself lucky. Hopkins was shot multiple times in the chest and could have died. If he did, Adams could be charged with murder and he'd be away for more than 14yrs.

At one time, I was on about 40+ groups, but that number lessened considerably over the years. And when Oaf started to ignore the well-being of the groups, many of the ones I belonged to went to groups io. They had a transfer process that took everything the group had in Yahoo and transferred...

This brings to mind an image somebody posted on Facebook a few years back. On one side, there was a series of emojis, ostensibly created to say something. On the other side, there was an image of hieroglyphics. The inference is that things really haven't changed much. Still, there is...

Since it's a Congressional Dog and Pony show, how can it not be treated as a joke? Didn't Ars run an article a year or two ago stating how the reps showed they knew squat about IT?

I find her use of Teddy Roosevelt and his anti trust case against the railroads to be ironic, inasmuch as the prime case is the 1903 Northern Securities case where James J. Hill of the Great Northern formed that company to hold the stock of the GN, Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Burlington &...

I think they'll huff and puff and say they won't do it again, but really, I'd rather them come out and say 'We're going to keep doing it because we know Pai isn't going to do anything about it'. So that would leave it up to the Justice Dept to lower the hammer, if they can.

I watched the first couple hours, then picked it up again the next morning. While I also like racing in the rain, this seemed to be a bit much if you're going to spend hours behind the pace car under yellow. And it seemed to be sort of bad timing to go back to green just when it started to...

I watched the first couple hours of the race and saw the driver change. I didn't notice the car dropping, but you can tell something was wrong with the wheel controls. I think somebody mentioned it wasn't working or dead. After a couple tries, they brought out the spare.

Because of the crap we have to go through at the airports, I went from flying on business trips to driving. As long as it was within a day's drive (say 8-9 hours), I'll drive. The cost was lower as well, based on the guidance and Government rates, it could be up to $100 or more less. Plus, if...

Well, if you live in the western part of the Dakotas, or Wyoming or eastern Montana, the speed limit there is 80 on the Interstates. You might go 85 to pass a slowpoke vehicle that's crawling along at 77.