Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 7, 2020

Daily Mail: 'Shut the F*** up': What one sailor shouted when Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly flew to Guam and told fired aircraft carrier's captain's crew their hero 'was too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer'

* Thomas Modly, President Trump's acting Navy secretary, told sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt that their fired captain was 'naive' and 'stupid'
* Modly complained about the memo Captain Brett Crozier about a coronavirus outbreak on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
* 'If he didn't think, in my opinion, that this information wasn't going to get out ... then he was either A) too naïve or too stupid to be a commanding officer,' he said
* Modly relieved Crozier of his command after letter went public
* And he said he did it because he thought President Trump would want him to
* 'If I were president, and I saw a commanding officer of a ship exercising such poor judgment, I would be asking why the leadership of the Navy wasn't taking action itself,' he said

Thomas Modly, President Trump's acting Navy secretary, told sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt that their fired captain was 'naive' and 'stupid' for the missive he wrote complaining about the lack of help for the coronavirus-infested ship and then complained about the flak he was receiving for relieving Captain Brett Crozier of his duties.

Modly flew to Guam, where the ship is docked as 5,000 crew members get tested after a coronavirus outbreak on the aircraft carrier, to address the sailors, who cheered Crozier as he left the ship after Modly relieved him of his command.

He criticized Crozier for the scathing memo he wrote to Navy officials, pleading to be able to take the Roosevelt to dock to try and contain the growing out break on the ship.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 7, 2020

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