Posted on 04/03/2020 4:01:15 PM PDT by Libloather
Hundreds of Navy officers gathered on board the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt's hangar deck to cheer for and applaud their commander, hours after he was dismissed.
Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of duty on Thursday due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command and for not following the chain of command to voice his concerns about coronavirus on the ship to service leaders.
A video was posted to Michael Washington’s Facebook page, that has since been reposted on several platforms, along with the hastags #MYCO and #WEARETRSTRONG.
“That’s how you send out one of the greatest captains you ever had,” someone says in the video. “The GOAT, the man for the people.”
The ship docked a week earlier in Guam after several cases of coronavirus were reported aboard the ship. Crozier wrote a letter to senior military officials, which was leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published Tuesday.
The letter discussed conditions on the ship, particularly regarding the danger it posed to the sailors. Crozier warned that “if we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset – our sailors.”
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That’s because your life wasn’t at stake.
You are in the lower IQ group along with half the people.
Good grief.
Did you mean Admirals Halsey and Spruance ?
Anything that can be twisted into an attack on Trump...
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Yeah NBC news tonight made sure to get their digs on Trump. They had the Commander as a great hero and really down played what he did wrong . Hate these people.
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Actually he put our first line of defense in the Western Pacific in serious jeopardy by not following proper protocol. He created a vulnerability in our defenses. It would be as if an Air Force Commanding Offecer stood down his nuclear missiles for a similar reason.
His comment that we are not at war was an outrage. The CV could be called upon at any moment to deploy to a trouble spot at the President’s direction. If he takes his CV offline (as he did) he reduces our capabilities by one half causing the sailors on the other CV task group to have to double time it.
This carrier and the other forward deployed carrier have the duty to support the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the show of power in the South China Sea, the contractual obligations to Japan and other allies.
He placed far more peoples lives in jeopardy than those of his ailing sailors. People above his paygrade are the ones who have to make those life and death choices. His duty was to follow his orders and to formally announce to his chain of command any serious degradation of his ship’s abilities so they and the President can make those judgment calls.
I watch the video. Ironically, there are hundreds of sailors, family members, and civilians all packed into a hangar. So these sailors and their family were so worried about their health that they are packed in like sardines in enclosed area. Brilliant!
We are not at war - and not likely to be any time soon. He did have an extremely communicable disease running rampant aboard and he limited time to deal with it.
He took action, as any genuine Commanding Officer should and when the higher echelons decided to risk his troops, he put them on the skyline for all of us to see.
Good thing for all of us, you never commanded anything.
I disagree with both the Captain and Pentagon. The Captain should have quietly asked for upper echelon help on correcting this or if not then requested removal from the command. No public needs involved.
The Pentagon really blew it by immediately and publicly removing him from his command and turning it into a propaganda shirt storm beneficial only to the left and China etc.
This could gave been handled easily by letting things blow over and correcting the situation. You almost wonder if contingency naval planning ever considered ramifications of such a virus in war time.
Most Americans today only know about military thru news.
Precisely. This guy sounds like a real screw-up, just waiting to screw-up bad enough to get a bunch of people killed.
Seems to me that this guy is one of those. Sailors think he's the greatest and Admirals think he needed to go. Was it because he was a troublemaker for them that they were happy to have an excuse to finally rid themselves of or because he wasn't effective and screwed up bad? None of us can know.
Halsey and Spruance.
One afternoon, I saw the fire "pluming" on a ridge above us and I knew that one of my teams was up there. The Forest Service guy told me that "everything's fine" but I knew from experience that the fire had the perfect conditions to trap my troops before they could escape - so I called them down from the mountain.
I replaced that Forest Service guy with another immediately. Those were my troops, not his. I didn't lose anybody and we put the damn fire out.
The death rate for COVID-19 for young people is 0.2% so they would mean 100 dead sailors on USS Roosevelt.
And I don't mean that as a compliment.
Why Chainmail I do believe that you have just caught high command and Andy Jackson in a direct lie. And that the crew are not the idiots Andy, TheDon, CodeToad, and a raft of others who ignore the timeline assert them to be.
Since it sounds like you know the job of an effective commander, I assure you that if you knew what some of us watching this understand, you would agree that this CO was ineffective.
The troops always know.
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