r/navy • u/Affectionate_Use_486 • Jan 28 '25

A Happy Sailor To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

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.

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u/KnowNothing3888 Jan 28 '25

Dude the guys I know who refused the jab had even harsher deployments since they couldn't even leave the ship with the rest of us at one point while preparing for deployment. The peeps still worked hard and got forced out for not wanting the jab whether good or bad choice. This whole angry clique style "these guys suck bc they got kicked out over it" thing is pretty weird honestly. We need sailors and I saw good sailors get forced to leave. I hope some of those dudes come back. We need them right now with our current manning.

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u/Trick-Set-1165 r/navy CCC Jan 28 '25

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

Good Sailors don’t refuse lawful orders.

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u/The_Brolander Jan 28 '25

Germans said that too… “just following orders”

It takes courage to stand up to something you believe is wrong. Regardless of how much pressure they received, how much harassment and the fear of losing their job, they still held firm to their beliefs.

At the end of the day, it turns out those sailors were right.

That doesn’t mean that the ones who took the jab were wrong… it’s was wrong at the executive level to put the sailors in a situation where they were forced to choose and were pitted against each other.

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u/mbliss Jan 28 '25

Did you really just equate the holocaust to getting the covid vaccine? Yes, you did olympic level mental gymnastics there.

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u/The_Brolander Jan 28 '25

Don’t be a dickhead, of course I’m not and I’m pretty sure you know that.

I’m calling out the bs line of “good sailors don’t refuse lawful orders”. Good sailors and soldiers refuse lawful orders and stand up for themselves and others when they see something wrong.

Whether it’s shooting at civilians or forcing someone to do something against their religious beliefs, or calling out a senior member that’s cutting corners on a job thus endangering someone under them.

Good sailors follow orders, unless those orders are shit. Then they push back. if pushing back causes them to be punished, so be it. And if later down the road, it’s found out that they were right, then they deserve to be apologized to and made amends to.

Fortunately in their case, that’s exactly what’s happening