Bet the Danes are too. I know it's not unusual, but nothing seems innocent right now.

Neither are the Danes, I’m sure.

There are many reasons the sub could have been there. Surveillance of the Danes (we watch our allies even in sane administrations); surveillance of units surveilling the Danes; practice hiding; in transit to someplace else; etc. They might have been someplace else entirely and this was the closest place to do a transfer.

We only have 150 troops in Greenland (https://theworlddata.com/greenland-military-statistics/#google_vignette.)
I was in the Navy. If I was on a ship that had a crew of only 150 sailors, and 'many people' were sick, there's a serious problem.
A reporter needs to ask Hegseth how many troops are sick, and how serious are the illnesses. Congress should be able to find out, but if the question came up, Johnson would call the House out of session.

And I would certainly trust Denmark's healthcare system over our own.

You know, the ones who have access to free health care on the island or in Denmark. That's why the Danish PM has rejected Trump's kind offer.

I realized my mistake after seeing another post (https://democraticunderground.com/10143620289).

It isn't safe to assume that he even knew what he meant or was talking about in any way....

Yes, a normal person saying, "and not being taken care of there" would mean the people of Greenland, but in this case I'm doubting it....

I don't think his proclamation coming the same day as the airlifting of a U.S. submariner to a hospital in Greenland by the Danish military is a coincidence--even though Greenland seemed to take it that way.

His mind operates like a Rube Goldberg machine that turns complex information into a simple comical representation of what it once was based on what he wanted it to actually be. We can almost safely assume he heard the truth that an American sailor was sick and had to be airlifted by the Danish military and that turned into people in Greenland mobbing a U.S. submarine to get to the sick bay for care because they don't have any healthcare in their own country somehow.

And then of course, promising something he can't or doesn't intend to deliver is just par for the course that he continually cheats on....

So what could go wrong on a US sub that would sicken a large number of people?

1) Trump is claiming to be sending some sort of ship he is calling a “hospital ship” (though both true hospital ships are in port undergoing maintenance) to help that country’s native citizens (not US military stationed there) who are ill.

2) One sailor was transferred off a submarine for a medical emergency. The “hospital ship” is not going there for that lone submariner. The rest of the submarine’s crew are nominally healthy.

in a normal sane world that a “hospital ship” would not be dispatched for a single sick sailor, but we do not live in a sane world so such assumptions are perilous. Also, there is the whole “Trump claims he is sending a hospital ship for sick Greenlanders while the only two ships we have are in port out of service” thing. This could mean he is dragging a World War II battleship out of a museum and painting a red cross on it.

that was facilitated by our H.H.S secretary.

considering that our president is trying to seize their territory

in drydock in Alabama.

He is like a child who has just been granted unlimited powers who can change domestic and world events on a mere whim, with no thought as to the amount of work, expertise, and money that goes into his impulsive declarations.

Would be medivaced by aircraft to the nearest medical facility capable of treatment, which would happen much quicker than waiting on a boat from Louisiana. Also, I am sure Greenland has trauma centers that can handle any typical injury, so either they want this sailor out of the territory to avoid any false pretext “rescue”, or the sailor had an injury not treatable in the average trauma center, say radiation burns.

Is this another "asylum/mental hospital" blunder?

I'm thinking anything he does not comprehend is turned into some sort of action based on his bizarre takes.
Someone needs to draw him some pictures ASAP!

It isn't real, but Faux Snooze will cover and amplify it. Maybe he will try to use his unneeded and fake rescue to whine for a prize of some sort.

This may be a very eye opening experience for our submariner... seeing how professionally things are handled in a progressive, modern country.

I do hope it's not a serious or life threatening injury/illness.