Capt Crozier taking care of dishes so jr crew could eat Thanksgiving dinner

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Barbara Starr ✔@barbarastarrcnn

This was Captain Brett Crozier washing dishes last Thanksgiving in the scullery while @TheRealCVN71 was underway in Pacific so junior crew members could get time for holiday meal. (This is how its done) . US Navy photo Airman DJ Schwartz.



1:58 PM - Apr 7, 2020

Heroes even wash dishes. Is there any wonder why he got the sendoff he did from the crew?

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[olegramps]

78. I wish Trump turned inside out and was flushed down his gold toilet.

[tblue37]

2. No wonder they love him! K&R for visibility. nt

[Collimator]

69. And no wonder why Trump hates him.

Anything genuine, decent, high-minded and honorable grates across his sensitive, prickly, toxic mucus-secreting skin.

[sfstaxprep]

3. Dipshit Bone Spurs Washed Dishes Once

Just kidding.

[Totally Tunsie]

4. I'm amazed Chump washes his own hands.

[sarge43]

15. Don't bet the farm on that

[KayF]

6. trump knows about washing dishes

[AZ8theist]

54. WHAT.THE.FUCK.

WAS HE TALKING ABOUT????

And the rubes behind him think this is a great leader?? A "stable genius"??????
How stupid are these idiots?

[Kaiserguy]

61. Easy answer

VERY!!!

[AZ8theist]

76. I know, right?

This country is INFESTED with imbeciles...

[42bambi]

27. LOL!!!

[Marie Marie]

39. What dishes? Everything he stuffs in his pie hole comes wrapped in paper.

or a cardboard bucket.

[Sherman A1]

5. K&R

[NoRoadUntravelled]

7. Thanks for this.

We tend to focus on the News Hog Liar King because, well, if news coverage was toilet paper he'd be wrapped up in it like a mummy.

We need to see the heroes. We need to be reminded that there's lots of good in the world. Spectacular good in the every day acts of kind people and good leaders.
Amazing humans willing to give it all they've got because good matters.
We need to highlight the encouragers, the healers, the ones who make us laugh and the ones who warm our hearts. There are millions and millions of fantastic human beings going about their lives making the world better just for being here.

We don't know what tomorrow will bring. Even in the best of times, we don't really know. I want to live every day as a true human being, not a cheap imposter whose agenda is to make people believe that down is up and up is down. Being good at gaslighting doesn't make him an expert at anything else.

This too shall pass. We will pay a price. But it will pass. Look for the good.

[calimary]

21. Welcome to DU, NoRoadUntravelled.

Good name for trump - News Hog Liar King. That's certainly what he is.

Appreciate your thoughts. You make a valid point. With trump around it's hard to focus on the good, and we do need to remember there still is good in the world.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

70. Thanks for the welcome.

Truly happy to have found DU.

[niyad]

38. Welcome to DU. Would you consider posting this as its own OP, so that we can rec it?

[NoRoadUntravelled]

71. Thanks for the welcome and Yes!

I'd be delighted.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

8. Compare and contrast to

...the man who drops his open umbrella at the door of Air Force One to let somebody else come back out, pick up, close, and bring inside.

I'm trying to envision one time in the life of Donald Trump, the man who ordered Capt. Crozier fired, when he's washed off even one of his own dishes.
Much less anybody else's.
Much less subordinates'.
And I'm gettin nothing.

[niyad]

41. Assuming he would even know where a kitchen was. . .

[Grokenstein]

49. To be fair...

...that umbrella was a Democrat trying to make him look bad.

[ExciteBike66]

9. I was once in charge of a checkpoint full of colonels...

Several commanders had come out to work my checkpoint (I was a Sgt) so their underlings could celebrate New Years. It was fun!

[denbot]

10. Nice.

That must have been an interesting evening.

[jimfields33]

11. Very typical

[uponit7771]

17. Carrier Captains usually do this? I've never been on a carrier, seems like an adventure no doubt

[bluescribbler]

29. I've never served on a carrier.

I served on a destroyer and a guided missile frigate. I never saw the Captain of either ship washing dishes, and if one of them had, the whole crew would have heard about it.

[jimfields33]

33. Maybe I'm confusing serving food with washing dishes

I seem to remember the Eisenhower captain working the line for sure when I was stationed on board.

[niyad]

43. Or remembering George the lesser serving ah plastic turkey?

[jimfields33]

57. Lol. I try to forget him, but I remember that.

Never thought we’d get worse then him.

[jimfields33]

31. For special occasions like Christmas and thanksgiving

[uponit7771]

35. +1, looks like Corzier bustin suds

[jimfields33]

36. Sure does. He seems awesome.

[sarisataka]

47. I would agree

While in no way diminishing Captain Crozier's dedication to his crew, it is not unusual for senior ranks to take over menial tasks on holidays, serving the junior ranks

[XRubicon]

63. I served on two carriers, never saw a captain in the scullery.

Which carrier did you serve on?

Me, Midway and Kitty Hawk.

[onecaliberal]

12. K&R

[rufus dog]

13. It's almost as if the need is to be a shipping clerk, or order clerk he would do the job

Unlike the shit heads in the admin.

Yet we have posters here saying not all repukes are bad. As if we need to ignore their actions AND listen to the claim how patriotic and moral they are.

[LisaM]

26. I had a boss like that once - I learned a lot from him.

it was in a bookstore (college textbook, so large) and what I really remember is that if someone like the janitor didn't show up, he'd go in and clean the bathrooms himself. No job was beneath him if it needed doing. He set a great example (he'd grown up poor on a farm and was the first in his family to go to college, etc., and worked his way up from his college job).

So if that's the way Captain Crozier was, I can totally understand the way the crew reacted - and how they must have felt betrayed, too.

[Paladin]

14. I want the Naval Cross awarded to Captain Crozier.

That, and I want an aircraft carrier put to sea with his name on it. All of this to happen, once we have something other than a piece of shit for a president.

[Delmette2.0]

18. +100

[calimary]

19. That's another thing. Later new ships are often named for former presidents.

We must NEVER name anything after trump. Except for maybe a prison or a trash/toxic clean-up dump or a landfill.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I will be shocked if anything is named after him.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

37. Oh, something in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will be.

It doesn't devote chapters to individual people, of course. But if it did....

[Pacifist Patriot]

59. Okay, I'll grant you that. Fair point.

[jmowreader]

72. I predict...

...that someone will start a fundraising drive to put together the $45,000 it will cost to rename the San Francisco sewage plant for Trump.

[madamesilverspurs]

50. Maybe a cemetery or two.

Or twenty . . .

[Cronezilla]

68. The only ship...

... that could ever be named after trump would be a garbage scow.

[lastlib]

75. I'd allow for a garbage barge.....

or rename one of the Fukushima reactors for him? "The tRump Memorial Radioactive Reactor/Dump."

Or, to follow your examples, how about a prison garbage landfill?

[albacore]

44. And a Purple Heart, too. He was stabbed in the back! nt

[stage left]

48. Hear, Hear.

There is no one who deserves it more.

[sarge43]

16. Captain Crozier is the gold standard of commanding officers

The commander every service member hopes to have.

sir.

[chia]

20. What an inspiring leader. Thank you for posting this.

[Takket]

23. I would very much like to hear Joe Biden come out and pledge to restore this great leader

to his post (as long as the Captain wants it), if Biden is elected.

Drumpf has been absolutely horrible to the military and there is a lot of inroads for Biden to make there.

[flibbitygiblets]

46. Not only the right thing to do, but very smart politically. Military tend to vote R normally.

But they are also fiercely loyal. Trump has shit all over the military, and this is a great opportunity to win their hearts.

[crickets]

24. I'm not surprised to see this.

It's obvious Captain Crozier is good people.

[roamer65]

25. This man should be the next SECNAV.

[usaf-vet]

30. This USAF veteran totally agrees.

[FM123]

28. Of course he would. A real leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

[IronLionZion]

32. Any true leader puts their subordinates first

President Biden needs to reinstate this man and then some. He's an inspiration during these difficult times and his sailors obviously respect him tremendously.

[iluvtennis]

34. K&R, love it!

[cwydro]

40. Rec.

[niyad]

42. KNR. We now this one is real, unlike some photo ops we all remember.

[warmonger456]

45. The difference

This here, is the difference between inspiring loyalty (Capt. Crozier), and demanding loyalty (tRump).

You just know that the men and women under Crozier's command will follow him anywhere into battle. Trump's sycophants turn State's witnesses when the walls begin to close in.

[Gothmog]

51. This officer is a true gentleman

[live love laugh]

52. I'm in ❤️❤️❤️ what a wonderful man. nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. The meaning of that green shirt on an Aircraft Carrier;

Apologies if someone else pointed this out already. I didn't read the whole thread;

Green:

Green shirts are worn by some of the hardest-working sailors on the deck, including ones who run and maintain the ship’s catapults and arresting gear. Hook Runners who make sure the ship’s cross-deck pendants (wires) make it back into position to trap another aircraft by coercing them with a five-foot steel bar wear green shirts. This is one of the most dangerous positions on the flight deck as the wires can snap across the deck at high speed, slicing through whatever or whoever they come in contact with.

Air wing maintenance personnel, those who work on the aircraft directly, also wear green shirts, as do cargo handling personnel, ground support equipment troubleshooters, enlisted helicopter landing signal personnel and photographer’s mates.

(Bold emphasis mine)

Above text from; https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/here-is-what-all-those-colored-shirts-on-an-aircraft-ca-1757896999

He didn't do this with his daily uniform on, he did this wearing the colors of the men he commanded.

As others I am sure have pointed out, THIS is why they loved him.

[ProfessorGAC]

55. How Naive Of Him!

It's stupid to think that being accommodating would help build morale on a ship of 5,000 sailors.
What a loser!
Oh, and.
Captain has his heart & head in the right place!

[napi21]

74. DT can't understand the concept of caring about the underlings. He has no heart at all, and his

mind shriveled up decades ago!

[AllaN01Bear]

56. hope this man runs for a political office .

[warmfeet]

58. That is called leading by example.

That is also how you earn respect from others. This man is a hero in more ways than one.

[certainot]

60. trump must go

[JohnnyRingo]

62. No one works for a true leader.

They feel they serve with a true leader.

[SKKY]

64. Not to diminish the import of this picture...

...it is typical for "leadership" to serve the crew Thanksgiving dinner. Or Christmas dinner. So, yea, it's cool and for sure appreciated by his crew, but I doubt the send off he received by his crew had anything to do with serving a holiday dinner. Only exceptional leadership gets you that.

[keithbvadu2]

65. Actually washing dishes!

Ohio Photo Op Flop: Paul Ryan Pretends to Wash Already Clean Pot in Empty Homeless Shelter

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/10/16/ohio-photo-op-paul-ryan-pretends-to-wash-already-clean-pot-in-empty-homeless-shelter/

Charity president: Paul Ryan "did nothing" at soup kitchen photo-op

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charity-president-paul-ryan-did-nothing-at-soup-kitchen-photo-op/

[Joinfortmill]

66. This is a stand-up guy

[XRubicon]

67. +1

[Blue Owl]

73. Exactly the man tRump isn't

n/t

[HAB911]

77. That's a leader I would follow too

[bluecollar2]

79. Not surprised he's wearing a green shirt

Although everyone on the flight deck busts their ass and every job is inherently dangerous the green shirts have the real grunt work IMO.