They say that being a CO of a warship is the loneliest job in the world. My own observations of my own two Captains are that is probably true. It doesn’t mean that you have to be a delusional hardass, but it does mean that you have to make decisions that are in the best interest of the ship first. A few days ago, the news was abuzz with the word that a US Navy Captain had begged to get his crew off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the Pacific, which was being ravaged by the COVID-19 disease. The Navy reacted swiftly and relieved the Commanding Officer, and video soon surfaced of his crew chanting his name and cheering him as he left the ship. Depending on your political views, this was either a gross overreaction by the “bad orange man” who “doesn’t care about the sailors,” or it’s a call for a Congressional investigation into the Navy’s decision which is clearly bad because “sailors are dying.” Like a Tiger King Documentary, don't believe everything that you're shown as the entirety of the story. First off, we will never know the whole story. Secondly, the Navy Regulations are designed to deal with these things.