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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?: THE U.S. NAVY APOLOGIZES

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, News

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. Navy issued a rare and revealing apology tied to its COVID-era policies—quietly acknowledging the damage caused by mandates and disciplinary actions imposed on service members. Once unthinkable, the apology signals a deeper reckoning as institutions begin to confront the real-world consequences of pandemic decision-making.

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0:00.0

All these people keep saying, you know, it's time to move on from COVID. It's time to forgive.

0:05.4

I keep saying, I will forgive when someone apologizes. What am I forgiving you for?

0:12.0

Well, I think we might have just gotten one of the first real official apologies out there in the abyss coming from our military. Take a look at this. To the sailors and

0:23.3

Marines who were wrongfully discharged during COVID, we failed you. We will never allow this

0:28.2

to happen again, not on my watch. We are ready for you to come back and we want to

0:32.8

correct your records. You are warriors' conscience and we need people like you back in the force to accomplish peace through strength.

0:40.3

We're writing this wrong, and it starts with this formal letter of apology.

0:45.3

Semperfy and hoo-ya.

0:55.1

I think we can say that about every one of you that stood up for what was right.

0:59.0

And whatever job you either lost or walked away from because you would not put up with it,

1:03.9

you are warriors of conscience.

1:05.7

I love that term.

1:07.6

I love that we are now seeing our own military in the United States of America leading

1:11.7

the way to teach people what it looks like to apologize for having been wrong and doing wrong.

1:19.5

There's more of that as needed by every news agency that is out there. Everyone that reported

1:24.7

that it was 95% effective when your own head of the CDC, Dr. Robert

1:29.0

Redfield, knew better, knew that wasn't true. Well, maybe you didn't know how to read an emergency

1:35.4

use authorization like the high wire did. I don't know. Maybe you don't know how to research.

1:39.4

You should learn how to do it, but one thing's for sure. You got it wrong and it's time to apologize.

1:45.0

If you haven't noticed, the pendulum is swinging.

1:47.4

We are winning.

1:49.0

Everybody's moving our direction.

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