I don’t think your blog will let me post a comment with a link in it under my new screen name, so I’m trying a second time under my old one.
So the namesake of the USS Theodore Roosevelt had a similar occurrence to what Captain Crozier just went through back in 1898 in Cuba, when his “Rough Riders” came down with malaria and yellow fever and needed immediate redeployment in order to survive.
Being the low man on the totem pole, TR risked his career and wrote and signed a letter asking for said redeployment, and lacking confidence in approval in time to save his men, gave a copy of the letter to an AP reporter who wired it stateside and created a major controversy, but the men were immediately withdrawn from Cuba.
I don’t think your blog will let me post a comment with a link in it under my new screen name, so I’m trying a second time under my old one.
So the namesake of the USS Theodore Roosevelt had a similar occurrence to what Captain Crozier just went through back in 1898 in Cuba, when his “Rough Riders” came down with malaria and yellow fever and needed immediate redeployment in order to survive.
Being the low man on the totem pole, TR risked his career and wrote and signed a letter asking for said redeployment, and lacking confidence in approval in time to save his men, gave a copy of the letter to an AP reporter who wired it stateside and created a major controversy, but the men were immediately withdrawn from Cuba.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/april/uss-theodore-roosevelt-commanding-officer-followed-example-colonel
Doug, any comment that includes a link gets held for approval because it might be spam.