Daily Mail: US Navy FIRES captain of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt for 'extremely poor judgment' after his letter to superiors begging for help was leaked - and his commanders insist NONE of the infected sailors need hospitalization
* Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly announced that Captain Brett Crozier is being relieved of his command of the USS Roosevelt on Thursday
* It comes four days after Crozier penned a letter to Navy leaders calling for the immediate evacuation of the aircraft carrier
* Modly said that the decision to relieve Crozier was driven by the fact that he shared the letter with at least 20 people before it was leaked in the media
* The secretary insisted that he was not accusing Crozier of leaking it himself
* However, US officials told Reuters that the Navy did believe he was responsible
* The USS Roosevelt was docked in Guam last week after 25 crew members tested positive for COVID-19
* At least 93 sailors on the nuclear aircraft carrier have since tested positive
* The Navy is in the process of evacuating 2,700 sailors from the ship
The US Navy has relieved the captain of the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt days after his plea for help for his sailors went public.
Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly announced on Thursday afternoon that Captain Brett Crozier had been relieved of his command of the nuclear aircraft carrier, four days after he penned a scathing letter to Navy leaders calling for stronger action to address the COVID-19 outbreak he said was unnecessarily threatening his sailors lives.
Modly said that the decision was driven by the fact that Crozier shared his letter with at least 20 people before it was leaked in the media on Tuesday.
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16 comments:
Nobody likes to hear bad news. God forbid, he told it like it is.
And, of course, he gets screwed for it.
Meanwhile, blundering meatheads like Esper, Milley and Pompeo continue their great work in quickening the decline of the American imperial project. This clown car drives itself.
Off a cliff.
"At least 93 sailors on the nuclear aircraft carrier have since tested positive"
1/2 of these people could have been quarantined in the S2M berthing space. They would not have liked it. Many people cop a bad attitude when sent to S2M. They merely be sent to the berthing to isolate them as much as possible.
The people in S2M would go back to their own divisional berthing spaces and be happy with that part, but still be unhappy with their temporary duty to clean the mess decks.
There are other berthing spaces as large but at that point you are playing musical chairs and it become difficult.
But the 1st 50 are free. The next 50 takes management.
Captain Crozier is accomplished. We passed pilot training, carrier quals, commanding a squadron, commanding a ship before a carrier, etc. (the normal cursus honorum).
He was prepared for a lot of things from combat to mass casualties. This came at him sideways and would have taken out other captains too. Now it won't take out other captains, because they got the message.
I also blame the media, scientists, and pols.
A captain that panics as easily as this one did should not be running a carrier. The crew members who have tested positive are not in a demographically risky age group.
Good point anon 9:28
Also he broke the chain. The firing was inevitable. And if he had any involvement in the decision to debark the sailors onto Guam and install them into hotels, doubly so.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-04-01/navy-has-taken-1-000-sailors-off-uss-roosevelt-modly-says-video
9:28
I agree somewhat. Still you can take a group of success, Medal of Honor winners, car parts or whatever, test them again and some of them will fail.
I saw the DoD report on having to be prepared for an influenza or respiratory outbreak and if it had been anymore generic, it would have stated "Be prepared for something bad. We don't know but something." So that warren of offices or rabbit holes or something did not prepare him as well as they could.
I agree on the not demographically risky age group, which is why I think the blanket one size fits all lockdowns in 34 or 38 states are pure bullshit. They are more political or panic than anything else.
Russ,
How did he break the chain of command? He sent the letter up the chain of command or did he skip the 1st rung above him?
Looks like he's being blamed for the leak to the press. If that's the case he definitely jumped the chain of command. Its only my supposition, but with the firing coming on so quickly, its the likely cause.
The Navy has a quick trigger when it comes to things like this and rightfully so. The exposure of weakness of one of our greatest military assets is no small affair. There was no question heads would roll after this leak and the captain holds full responsibility for everyone under his command. That's how it works. I doubt it will be publicized, but I have no doubt that several other careers have been ended as a direct result of this incident.
First of all, anyone who has NOT served in the military can STFU. You understand nothing. The military is no place for feel-good, snowflake, safe space, PC, "it ain't fair" whiney ass libtards. When you're in the military, the military owns your ass. You want to own your own ass? Then get the f*** out of the military. Second, anyone who has served in the military knows that it can be, and usually is, ridiculously inefficient. Always has been, always will be. Hurry up and wait is a meme that was a meme before memes were a thing (so is FUBAR, by the way). And third, ANY intel giving potential adversaries ANY info or insight regarding readiness, planning, or morale is probably THE NUMBER ONE don't-do in the military. So, something like this happens and suddenly we got a whole bunch of experts who know what's what. Congressional oversight is constitutional, but making political hay over situations like this is one way to weaken THE ONLY FUKIN THING STANDING BETWEEN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT, AND LIFE AS A COUNTRY THAT HAS JUST HAD ITS ASS KICKED BY A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT DEMOCRACY OR YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT ANYTHING.
Ah, Kilroy was here. Very astute political analysis. Fair points made in a sober manner. Nothing better than polite discourse.
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(got me a couple)
He must have been watching a lot of CNN the way he panicked.
WASHINGTON – Nearly 2,000 veterans and more than 500 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to data released by the department Thursday.
The agency also reported 68 veteran deaths across the VA health care system — an increase from six deaths one week ago. The veterans ranged in age from their 50s to their 90s.
Nationwide, more than 213,000 people in the United States were known to be infected in the global pandemic Thursday, and the death toll had climbed to 5,700. New York has been the most affected in terms of number of cases and deaths.
It didn't handle it properly, and he got fired for it. Military is not a true democracy. He should have went through the proper chain.
And at 10:10 Parrot or a parrot imitator took a shit in this thread.
"Nationwide, more than 213,000 people in the United States were known to be infected"
"WASHINGTON – Nearly 2,000 veterans and ..." "Oh please Gawd don't let me die save my lily white ass!" - Geeze
FACT: "759,493 People Entered US From China During Coronavirus Outbreak"
FACT Trump restricted travel at the end of January.
FACT: Democrats called him racist for it.
FACT: Dim-o-crat candidate did not bring up corona during debates.
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