I presume, WW, that your tongue is firmly in your cheek??
T'was ever thus.
Just seems as though when anything 'kicks off' we send a Sentinel. Nothing to do with its intended scrapping, oh no sir, but one imagines meetings 'on high' with its senior officer 'sponsors' all present, arm aloft, bouncing up and down in their seats, pleading "me sir, me sir, choose me sir".