I know of someone on that carrier. I’m waiting for confirmation but I know that they were told they will have an extended deployment. She was apparently a little frightened by what they were told by the Admiral and wasn’t worried about the deployment until then.
Apparently OPSEC on that carrier is not great?
Note: I had to calm down her panicked mother who got a text that let her know that her (mother’s) worst fears were being realized - that they would get sent to Israel area. I sent screenshots of all the precipice Q posts and told her that I was expecting something like this and it will look bad, but to have faith.
Fear is normal under these circumstances. While i understand both of their positions, she knew what she was signing up for when she raised her hand and swore an oath. An oath which will bind her and all who took it past, present and future and will only be relieved of when she releases her last breath: To uphold, and defend The Constitution for the United States of America, against all enemies both foreign and domestic and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..." These are binding words given in a time honored ceremony.
Mom can be scared, she has a certain right to be so, but she needs to refocus the fear and turn it into pride. Proud that her little girl volunteered on her own accord and has a job, a mission and a purpose to go into harms way when called upon like those before her and those who she will pass the torch too when she leaves active duty.
Yes, carriers are big, bad and scary under normal circumstances, but they met pre deployment milestones and requirements of the crews before they were deemed fit and ready for deployment. They are now in that category of being on the front line as 100,000 tons of Diplomacy. If everyone does their job, they will return. God speed to them.
R,
U.S. NAVY (Retired)
That’s such a tired clause. While the USA clearly has foreign adversaries across an asymmetric spectrum, it increasingly appears to be domestic enemies who have wrought more catastrophe and destruction upon the economy, people and culture of the USA than foreign enemies could dream of, invariably at the behest of, or with the active participation of said foreign enemies.
Better said would be “enemies domestic occultly masquerading as foreign…”
I know of someone on that carrier. I’m waiting for confirmation but I know that they were told they will have an extended deployment. She was apparently a little frightened by what they were told by the Admiral and wasn’t worried about the deployment until then.
Apparently OPSEC on that carrier is not great?
Note: I had to calm down her panicked mother who got a text that let her know that her (mother’s) worst fears were being realized - that they would get sent to Israel area. I sent screenshots of all the precipice Q posts and told her that I was expecting something like this and it will look bad, but to have faith.
Fear is normal under these circumstances. While i understand both of their positions, she knew what she was signing up for when she raised her hand and swore an oath. An oath which will bind her and all who took it past, present and future and will only be relieved of when she releases her last breath: To uphold, and defend The Constitution for the United States of America, against all enemies both foreign and domestic and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..." These are binding words given in a time honored ceremony. Mom can be scared, she has a certain right to be so, but she needs to refocus the fear and turn it into pride. Proud that her little girl volunteered on her own accord and has a job, a mission and a purpose to go into harms way when called upon like those before her and those who she will pass the torch too when she leaves active duty. Yes, carriers are big, bad and scary under normal circumstances, but they met pre deployment milestones and requirements of the crews before they were deemed fit and ready for deployment. They are now in that category of being on the front line as 100,000 tons of Diplomacy. If everyone does their job, they will return. God speed to them. R, U.S. NAVY (Retired)
"100,000 tons of Diplomacy." I like that!
Thank you for your service!
“Enemies foreign and domestic…”
That’s such a tired clause. While the USA clearly has foreign adversaries across an asymmetric spectrum, it increasingly appears to be domestic enemies who have wrought more catastrophe and destruction upon the economy, people and culture of the USA than foreign enemies could dream of, invariably at the behest of, or with the active participation of said foreign enemies.
Better said would be “enemies domestic occultly masquerading as foreign…”