why senior officers failed to perform there fundamental duty to their subordinates?

I would assume they didn't want to get fired.

Reveal Crisis on Second Navy Carrier

The simple truth is, the USN has overextended itself. There are only four deployed carriers. Lincoln is obviously over extended and is going home. They claim that Washington was always planned to rotate in to replace her. It's about 7,00 miles from Japan to the Gulf, a trip that would take about 15 days. Washington left Japan 83 days ago. It's not exactly in a hurry. Lincoln's original replacement was Roosevelt, which is currently in San Diego. Where will she go? To replace Washington in Japan? Or to relieve Bush, which has been at sea since May?

USS Photo Prop is at Newport News for a Mani-Pedi and to get her hair done, so that's no help. Three other carriers are in for multi-year fuel replenishments. The rest are in refits or training.

Good idea.

I agree. Been a few days and they have no idea what happened yet.

Another DEI pilot?

One looked pretty dark. Hegseth must have missed him in the cull.

I wonder if Ghislaine Maxwell is providing the "guests" for the Oval Office visits?

This is what happens when you have a know nothing in the White House and a know nothing at Secretary of Defense.

It's not just that they don't know, they also don't care. Lewzeer as much as said so today.

Could the food shortages be because the ship is operating somewhere that makes it too dangerous or difficult to safely resupply?

Obviously. That's why they don't leave ships in places like that for so long. Normally they resupply in port.

I think it would have been easy to scare the ---- out of anybody near the middle over Bernie.

I think you are right. I can't imagine the barrage of attack ads they had ready.

I wonder what they will have to remove from the ships in order to do this? One of the advantages of removing the steam system was it freed up a lot more space under the deck. Now that space will be gone. Another advantage was it took a lot less people to operate new new setup. Now they will need to staff back up for steam, and add accommodations for more men.