Rank vanished, and all sorts of subjects of interest were visited. At one point, Price turned to me. “I’ve been wanting to ask you, what did you do to Admiral Dingle?” There were chuckles around the room, but everyone looked at me for an answer. “Nothing I know about. Why do you ask?” “Dingle was one of our most promising officers coming up through the ranks. He was a very effective Cruiser driver when he made Captain, so we fast tracked him. But when he received his star, he completely changed. Competence vanished, and was replaced with arrogance and self-importance. We couldn’t un-give him Warspite once he was appointed, because he never actually fouled up. But that ship wasn’t half as effective at anything, once he had command. Granted she was old and out of date, but she was still the flagship of our fleet, and he was only one of two one stripe Admirals we had serving.” “Sounds like he rose to the level of his incompetence,” I suggested. “You’d think so, except for his performance under you has been back up to the standard for which we promoted him in the first place.
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