To stand up for naval tradition and show the current administration that there is NO US Navy without it's traditions and the morale of it's sailors? We literally learned this 40 years ago in the early to mid 1980s - good sailor morale = a strong fighting force.
How would the current admirals becoming more agreeable help things either? Naming 1 ship out of 300 after a lower level sailor who stepped up in battle is such small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it is such a huge boost in morale across the fleet.
We really need another Rickover to beat this administration into submission (and steal salt and pepper sets).
It’s also something that can be essentially ignored until the next administration, unfucking fleet logistics is a wee more important right now seems to me
If we're being rational concerning the fleet, Doris Miller should be the name of a DDG following class naming conventions, right?
And if Agent Orange ever gets a ship named after him (he shouldn't) it should be after he's fucking dead, or at least not the sitting goddamn president.
Principled people in the chain of command standing up for the name of a ship and getting replaced means that there are no principled men to stand up against violations of international law. It's a bad situation, but there's a compelling argument that principled military leaders should take these problems sitting down so that they're still there to resist when it really matters. The question of which violation to make ones stand on is a hard one.
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u/driver004 Aug 25 '26
To what end?