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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Well...there is that.
He protected his troops at the sacrifice of his career.
We need more men like him.
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Hmmm.. so how many of his men were “hospitalized” in the carrier’s sick bay? It would be interesting to have a random sample of the crew who did not test positive for active Coronavirus be given a serum Coronavirus antibody test to determine how many already had and cleared the virus.
It's a little more sophisticated than that, but if you say so...
Ummm....maybe we are....maybe we're not.
Too early in the story and we may never really find out.
But one thing's for certain.
The Chicoms know the TR battle group is out of action for now.
Ping
It depends, doesn’t it? A commander has to call the situation as he sees it. If the disease has significantly spread among his crew, I hope that the President reinstates him (or promotes him).
Answer the question posited in post nineteen plausibly.
After that, I will get back to you.
If you cannot come up with a viable answer I will probably still get back to you, only it will be on every thread about the ship henceforth.
You see, some of us take offense when high command commits a royal fuck up and then tries to rewrite their actions so that they can shit on the Tropps and the lower command levels.
Show us that’s not you.
I’d bet a dollar against your dime that this idiot’s superiors know exactly who “leaked” this captain’s complaint to the national media. They appear to be holding criminal prosecution as a chit against him ever opening his mouth again.
Looks to me that you got your ‘command ‘ information from watching a lot of B grade movies.
It is obvious from your responses that you have no idea what you are talking about regarding command responsibilities in time of war and in time of peace. If you believe their is difference then you probably belong over at DU and not here.
Answer the question posited in post 19.
Remember, your answer (or incompetence in not being able to come up with an answer) will be coming back on you going forward.
Far more than that. He commanded a vital capital ship, a ship about whose whereabouts and condition the enemy, the Chi Coms, should know as little about as possible. Indeed, when Italian frogmen severely damaged a group of British capital ships in Alexandria Egypt, in 1940 or 1941, Churchill ordered that they were to continue routine operations as though nothing had happened. That kept the Axis Powers guessing. OTOH this damn, traitorous fool gave the Chi Coms a vital weapons damage report on what their deliberately disseminated Wuhan Virus had done, i.e., cripple a vital US capital ship. He really ought to be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to the enemy Chi Coms, i.e., treason, and shot by a firing squad on his quarter deck if found guilty, the same punishment the
British meted out to Admiral Byng in the eighteenth century.
I’m glad that another “operator” has finally weighed in here. A carrier is equipped, manned and trained to conduct combat operations [flying aircraft, arming and maintaining them] while dealing with multiple casualties to the ship, and while feeding all the sailors while at extended battle stations. It’s like locking down a base and the air wing because 70 airmen got sick. The Navy can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Answer the question posited in post 19, if you are one fifteenth as competent as you claim that will be easy for you.
Even when the only thing that was genuinely crippled was the mental state of the CO.
retry you mat. it is 10, maybe. Depending on their health and level of physical activity and exposure to sunshine probably 0 deaths
You have absolutely no idea at all what this commander faced - and never will.
If this disease swept through his ship, just how useful, how combat-ready would they have been? Even if all of his troops survived, how effective would they have been in the high-stress positions in a modern aircraft carrier?
I don't know why I'm asking you - you wouldn't know.
My Father was in the Army in WWII in the Philippines.
Often times 1/2 -2/3 of his men had malaria, dysentery, some other tropical disease or were walking wounded.
They still did their job.
If here were still with us he would be appalled by this captain.
Good point.
And then he leaked his letter to the media.
Ah, the last refuge of a scoundrel! Guess what, genius - I have commanded a battalion - and guess what, commanding in peacetime is not a whole lot different from commanding in combat because you train in nearly the same conditions as in war.
My battalion fired 15,000 high explosive projectiles in training and every single one of those were full-up war munitions. We trained in tough conditions, we trained at night, and sometimes took casualties in training.
Now, "expert" - tell us all of your vast experience in matters of warfare.
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