@mrsaturday while I don't agree with it I can understand that they'd circle the wagons for their own. What makes this infuriating is the fact that instead of trying to be as discreet and low level as possible, now they're making a huge fucking deal out of this, wanting apologies from Japan, and wanting him to get promoted.

I don't think he even got demoted or anything, he's still somehow in the Navy. BUT THEY WANT MORE. It's genuinely mindboggling what the angle is. He got off with the lightest slap on the wrist, got paid while held, got reshored, and now his supporters are asking for apologies from Japan and his promotion to be reinstated.