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In reply to the discussion: Lawmakers call for removal of Navy Secretary over USS Roosevelt debacle [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)You don't get to be Captain of an Aircraft Carrier being "inept or stupid"? I strongly suspect that two things were true. The captain had already tried to go through the "chain of command" and gotten nowhere. Most likely, the admiral to which he reported was on the aircraft carrier as well. I also am suspicious that this captain had figured out that his career was fizzling out and this was his last significant station. It was probably because he had spent too much time being the kind of captain he was and not the ladder climber one needs to be to become admiral. In any leadership position, one tends to get to a point where they have to choose between being a leader, and being a ladder climber. Many of us just can't sell out the people that got us where we are to get to where we might want to be.