This is due to the diplomatic policy of using liberal Port Visits & Liberty Calls to ‘show the flag’ as well as provide economic support to foreign nations; Our ships don’t just sit in a port for a few days, a lot of ‘supply’ business is conducted and the sailors on Liberty go out on the town to spend their pay. QED, they pick up the local ‘flavor’.<\/p>\n
Now we have the core of a whole Carrier Strike Group –1 of only 8<\/em> <\/strong>currently fully operational – out of action. Pretty good military attrition for a bug that more than few say was let loose from a Chinese gubbermint biolab.<\/p>\n Aircraft carrier captain pleads for help after more than 100 crew are infected with coronavirus.<\/a><\/p>\n WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that has more than 100 cases of coronavirus wrote a stunning plea for help to senior military officials.<\/p>\n In a four-page letter, first reported by\u00a0the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt described a disastrous situation unfolding aboard the warship, a temporary home to more than 4,000 crew members.<\/p>\n He proposed offloading the majority of the crew, quarantining those infected, testing others for the virus and professionally cleaning the ship. <\/strong>He explained in his letter that by keeping the crew on the vessel the Pentagon was taking \u201can unnecessary risk\u201d that \u201cbreaks faith with those Sailors entrusted to our care.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pentagon did not immediately respond to CNBC\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is due to the diplomatic policy of using liberal Port Visits & Liberty Calls to ‘show the flag’ as well as provide economic support to foreign nations; Our ships don’t just sit in a port for a few days, a lot of ‘supply’ business is conducted and the sailors on Liberty go out on … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46976"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47102,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46976\/revisions\/47102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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