{"id":126687,"date":"2022-06-12T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=126687"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T00:22:39","slug":"iwo-jima-skipper-takes-whole-crew-to-see-top-gunmaverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=126687","title":{"rendered":"Iwo Jima skipper takes whole crew to see Top Gun:Maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Captain Judd Krier (USN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a feel good story. Captain Judd Krier, who commands USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), took his whole crew to see the latest Top Gun movie. He even bought popcorn and soda. Excepting for those on the duty watch, this amounted to some 700 sailors.<\/p>\n

From Navy Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Ship life is hard, and ship life while said ship is in dry dock for maintenance in Norfolk is its own kind of suck, as anyone following the Navy in recent months has come to understand.<\/p>\n

So a big Bravo Zulu to Capt. Judd Krier, skipper of the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima, who took his massive crew of 700 sailors \u2014 minus the duty section, of course \u2014 to see \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d at a local theater late last month.<\/p>\n

The Daily Press first reported this act of good CO\u2019ing, wherein Krier even sprang for the sailors\u2019 drinks and popcorn.<\/p>\n

The idea came to Krier as he huddled with his command team and looked for ways to make things suck less for his crew as the ship undergoes maintenance at the General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk shipyard in Virginia, according to the Daily Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a chance for everyone to connect with a great Navy movie,\u201d Krier told the publication.<\/p>\n

Props to Krier for looking after his men and women during this maintenance time, and for giving future COs, executive officers, and command master chiefs across the service a look at what good leadership and morale-boosting look like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking at Norfolk theaters, a general admission ticket runs about $10 per person. It’s been a good while since I was at an in-person cinema (building a home theater ruined me on the experience), but popcorn and soda gotta be somewhere around $7. Captain was looking at a bill somewhere north of $11,000. Even if they gave a 10% military discount, that’s a pretty penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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