Because it amplifies why Admiral Harvey is WRONG.
This is a generation of leadership that does not tolerate dissent and expresses consent through silence.
Read into the absence of any Flag Officer speaking on this issue however you wish, but I believe the above applies. Even when it comes to the “Open and Independent Forum” Flag officers of this generation have been trained not to speak out of turn.
It is the aspect of the Honors report that went unsaid – no one wants to acknowledge that the culture problem where silence means consent and dissent is not tolerated is a reflection of Flag Officers of the current generation. 5000 people on an aircraft carrier must then be an anomaly and isolated case.
Attacking the Naval Institute board and Admiral Harvey in one post!
And yes, I intend to speak about Admiral Harvey with more ferocity than I devote to my ex-wife for a while. That’s how disgusted with the USN I am right now.
I refer you to Sal’s posting from a couple years ago regarding a great USNI proceedings article from 1995. It almost shut Proceedings down for a while.
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/05/diversity-thursday_21.html
I remember that article. I wrote an article a few years after along the same lines.