A joking claim that an admiral hijacked his own fleet receives a more specific correction from Glynn Stewart. The fictional fleet did not yet exist: the admiral stole ships awaiting decommissioning and recruited officers and crews who were no longer active. He then took that improvised force beyond the border without orders. The region specifically required government approval for deployment, making authorization central to the objection even though the hulls were about to leave service.
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An unauthorized fleet expedition and the civil-military boundary
Ships awaiting decommissioning and inactive crews still form an unauthorized expedition when deployed without the required government approval.