Captain Crozier!

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A man of the people, putting his shipmates before himself:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDkffIKzCs&app=desktop[/ame]

Clearly, the sailors aboard his former vessel loved him and appreciated what they did for their health and well-being. As someone who has been under several bad commands I can tell you the respect these sailors are showing is not something easily earned.

Farewell Captain Crozier! You will be remembered in the hearts of many!

-Jay
 
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Crozier and his Boss the Rear Admiral lived a couple of doors away from each other on the TR. They must have had a terrible personality conflict for Crozier to violate the most basic concepts of Operational Security.

I think there will be more fallout from this episode. The Rear Admiral might find his head on the chopping block too. I'd be surprised if a couple of demotions and forced retirements aren't on the table.
 
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Czechvar said:
Crozier and his Boss the Rear Admiral lived a couple of doors away from each other on the TR. They must have had a terrible personality conflict for Crozier to violate the most basic concepts of Operational Security.

I think there will be more fallout from this episode. The Rear Admiral might find his head on the chopping block too. I'd be surprised if a couple of demotions and forced retirements aren't on the table.
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Indeed. Much as I sympathize with the captain's wish to protect his crew, his breaches of OPSEC just won't fly in the military post Snowden and Manning.
 
A question for you old salts-
Isn't a Captain kind of a low rank to command a carrier? I thought carrier commanders always had a star or two.
And yes, I know a Capt in the Navy is an O-6, the equivalent of a Colonel in the Army.
 
handejector said:
A question for you old salts-
Isn't a Captain kind of a low rank to command a carrier? I thought carrier commanders always had a star or two.
And yes, I know a Capt in the Navy is an O-6, the equivalent of a Colonel in the Army.
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I'm not an old salt, but I know this for different reasons.

All carriers are commanded by Captains. Flag officers are not as a rule used for any single-ship command; they may be embarked on carriers, but as group commanders.

Captains in the Navy can functionally hold significant command responsibilities which may exceed what an Army Colonel would be expected to do. As an example (I'm keeping this vague, although I think it's largely public information now), a former college roommate of mine served 30 years as a career Navy officer. Once promoted Captain, he served as the Commodore of a Naval Special Warfare Group, and then as the Deputy Commander of US SOCOM for an entire continent, as No. 2 to a Major General. He retired as Captain.
 
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yaktamer said:
Before or after Lionel Richie went solo?
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Good one :D

I was surprised when I read the announcement of his appointment; I'd only heard the term used in naval novels about the Napoleonic Wars and such.

But the US Navy apparently uses Commodore not as a rank, but as a function description, instead of Commanding Officer, which may be a bit long and not sound as charmingly nautical ;)
 
STCM(SW) said:
"All carriers are commanded by Captains. Flag officers are not as a rule used for any single-ship command; they may be embarked on carriers, but as group commanders."
That is a fact. And a Navy Captain may be in charged of a destroyer squadron as Commodore.
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Not only that, but depending on the vessel, a ship's captain (which in most cases is a billet) may be a Commander (Lt. Col), Lt. Commander (Major) or even a Lieutenant (Captain). IIRC capital ships (carriers, boomers, battleships) are usually full bird Captains (we even had an XO on one ship that was a full bird captain)
 
In the USN there are two Rear Admiral ranks, though both wear the same sleeve markings. RA Lower-half which is a one star or Brigadier General in the Army (O-7) or RA upper half (O-8). In the RN, however, the rank of Commodore is a single star, one broad band on the sleeve and is equivalent to a Brigadier in the Army or an Air Commodore in the RAF. Other European services use much the same system as the UK. At times, a "Captain" not necessarily an O-6 may be appointed as "Commodore of a group of vessels." Dave_n
 
From here, it looks like he absolutely did the right thing, just not the correct thing as prescribed by the Navy. Reading between the lines, it looks as though he wasn't getting any response by going through channels. That might not be the case, but If he reasonably saw it as a matter of life or death, with time being of the essence, then he did the right thing from a moral standpoint, at least.

Presumably he was aware of the consequences for his career, which he will have to accept in any event If there were any political considerations behind the Navy's apparent foot-dragging, then I would root for him even more strongly.
 
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