That should have been one of the first priorities, from early January--keep the crews and troops on base or on ship. I recall strict rules when military members were sent to Africa for ebola aid.

quietly prepping, curtailing travel, and testing for a while now. It's only since March 15 that they even started restricting domestic travel.

He's not going to take any protective measures...because if he did, he's have to explain why he did it without Trump's explicit permission!!!

For all we know, Esper asked Trump and was told, NO...because it had the chance of making the orange anus look bad!!!

turning into quite the failure.

looting the treasury

having a temper tantrum about people not being nice to him. Everyone is at risk, including our troops.
He is busy calling himself a war time president. But won't protect the troops. The medical personnel on the frontlines and all of the other people we depend on for our safety.

That claimed the US would would have up to 10 million infected by March 23rd.

Assuming their military assessment is equally accurate,
i will patiently wait for China to invade Japan while the US Navy is in sick bay. I think I will have to be very patient.

... to claim that two sick sailors (or two dozen in the other case) takes a carrier out of service for a month.

Carriers have significant NBC capacity and training... (and comparatively few 75 year olds with compromised respiratory systems). I doubt that the virus seriously degrades their capacity if the carriers are needed.

Pentagon chief warned overseas commanders not to surprise White House on coronavirus measures: report

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=esper+don%27t+surprise+trump

It's a serious and sad situation for the sailors just like everyone else, and it highlights - yet again - the federal government's inept response.