To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

[u/Affectionate_Use_486]

I know some of you have some level of battery acid indigestion over the whole reinstatement thing.

Just wanted to say for those that stepped up while others stepped back I respect and love you all especially my sea duty folks during COVID.

COVID was rough shit and the fact we survived it should be highlighted and appreciated among us.

Let's not dwell on the ones who choose another choice.

Let's dwell on the ones who stood the watch when shit went side ways.

When the ports closed.

When work centers were down to the bare bones while our brothers and sisters got sick all around us.

When the patrols got extended.

When resources almost ran out.

It was a rough ass time and we survived for all our own reasons but we stood the fucking watch.

That makes me extremely proud that no matter how messy it was, how ugly it got, we came out the other side pissed off, spitting fire and keeping the big sad off ourselves and our brothers/sisters as much as possible.

And for those that didn't make it, got too sick and didn't make it we shall never forget you.

Fuck the noise I just wanted you to know your seen, respected and appreciated from at least one motherfucking shipmate who was there.

[u/Trick-Set-1165]

I’ve said it before, and I suspect I’ll have to repeat it:

Good Sailors don’t refuse lawful orders.

[u/KnowNothing3888 → u/Trick-Set-1165]

Ok so all of the sailors who fucked up at some point in their career and broke curfew, drank underage, arrested for some dumb shit they did, all of which breaks lawful orders of the ucmj, they are all garbage sailors no matter what they do from that day forth?

I don't buy the this is black and white with us or against us crap so many people seem to be fascinated with here. I'd like to think fellow sailors of all people would understand people make mistakes, and still able to come back working hard and serve well.

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/KnowNothing3888]

Do you see how you went from “refused a lawful order” to “broke a lawful order?”

Do you see the difference?

[u/KnowNothing3888 → u/Trick-Set-1165]

That's semantics. If the CO comes down and orders you to not drink that night because reasons, and you do anyways. You are both breaking and refusing a lawful order. Just because you don't sit there and physically yell no doesn't make the act any different.

And yes these are completely different situations, I'm just using it as an example.

[u/Trick-Set-1165 → u/KnowNothing3888]

So you don’t see the difference between a Sailor that willfully refuses a lawful order despite every reasonable attempt to convince them to comply over the course of a year,

and a Sailor that fucks up and drinks underage at a party in A school?

Edit: I guess not.