Daily Mail: Navy leaders recommend REINSTATING USS Roosevelt captain who was fired after sending a letter pleading for help to fight coronavirus on the carrier where more than 800 sailors have now tested positive
* Navy officials have recommended USS Roosevelt Captain Crozier be reinstated to his role of commander of the virus-stricken ship
* Defense Secretary Mark Esper was handed the recommendations Friday but has asked for more time to decide on an outcome
* He was expected to announce results of the Navy's investigation Friday afternoon but officials said the press conference has been moved to next week
* Crozier was fired last month after he sent a letter to Navy leaders exposing an outbreak on board the aircraft carrier which was then leaked
* 840 crew members have been infected with coronavirus and one sailor has died
Top Navy officials have called for ousted USS Roosevelt Captain Brett Crozier to be reinstated, in the latest saga for the coronavirus-stricken ship.
The chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael M. Gilday, and the acting Navy secretary, James McPherson, pushed Defense Secretary Mark Esper to reinstate Crozier to his position Friday in a shock turnaround, after the commander was controversially fired last month for sending a letter exposing an outbreak on board the aircraft carrier.
Esper has not immediately accepted the recommendations but has instead asked for more time to review the decision.
This comes as 840 crew members on board the Roosevelt have now been infected by coronavirus and one sailor has died.
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WNU Editor: The final decision will rest with US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and he has yet to sign off on accepting the recommendations of the US Navy to reinstate Captain Brett Crozier .... Navy Recommends Reinstatement of USS Roosevelt Commander; Defense Chief Won't Sign Off (WSJ).
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Navy recommends reinstating ousted USS Theodore Roosevelt captain -- FOX News
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Navy recommends reinstating commander of USS Theodore Roosevelt -- CNN
Navy recommends reinstating fired captain who sounded alarm on coronavirus outbreak -- Politico
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The issue with Captain Crozier was not that he wrote a letter, but that he allowed the letter to be leaked to the media. He can no longer be trusted, and rightfully so. The military is not run like capital hill, thank God, and if this leaker is reinstated it will set a horrible precedent.
ReplyDeleteWhat 10:45 said.
ReplyDeleteI will add this
"Wave Sweeps 3 Men, 38 Missiles off US Carrier; One Sailor Missing"
"A wave struck a freight elevator on an aircraft carrier as sailors moved missiles from one deck to another early Tuesday, sweeping three men and 38 missiles into the Atlantic Ocean, the Navy said. Two sailors were rescued.
Navy planes and ships searched through the day for the two sailors from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Atlantic ..."
The AP reporting sucks. You would think that they were making a movie or writing a book using flashbacks or other literary devices. It is hard to read. The important point is that going to see is dangerous and the Captain should have kept is calm. What was the medical officer on the carrier doing? Pulling a Fauci?
"October 31, DCFN Donald Evans was lost at sea after a rogue wave swept over three sailors on the port aft weather deck, while the carrier plowed through 12-foot seas about 600 miles north of Wake Island."
www.uscarriers.net/cvn70history.htm
It would be interesting to crunch the scenarios of what would have happened to this ship if this outbreak happened at a time of war. Say 100% of the crew was infected, would the ratio of asymptomatic cases stayed around 60%, and would that level stay balanced as it worked its way through the officer corp and older personnel. How many sailors would have become completely incapacitated, and how many could have continued working through the illness. Would there have been enough crew members active to keep the ship running at a reasonable level...this case should and will be studied for a long time to come.
ReplyDeleteOnly 1 died.
ReplyDeleteSo the real question is as you succinctly put it.
"How many sailors would have become completely incapacitated, and how many could have continued working through the illness. "
I assume the latter. I will find out.
I don t blame the young sailors. If they felt like they had a bad cold and with all the propaganda press, I would be spooked just like them.