My question is why are we flying our aircraft in the combat airspace where a ship needs to shoot down drones? There should be deconfliction of airspace. I've spent a bit of time in the CIC of an aircraft carrier and the TAO is always very on top of our aircraft not being in the defensive envelope of our escorts. This would seem espescially followed if there was an active air threat of enemy aircraft in that envelope. I would not be too hasty to call it a traitorous act. That guy's a captain and that takes some proving to get there. But as CO he is 100 percent responsible for the fuckups his Crew, especially his TAO cause. The pilots even hold some responsibility as well as the combat airspace ATC and their boss that let those aircraft be in the targeting area. Think about how it looks when a drone hits a ship and takes it out of commission because the ship couldn't defend because some friendly aircraft made itself a target? Planes are expensive but not like a ship. Wrong guys are being screwed with in my opinion. That ship absolutely must be able to defend itself. 3 or 4 hundred people count on it.