Maybe they were happy to see him go?
The media is really spinning this one.
How many Carriers did Obama’s Navy have at sea when Trump took office?
“This will require a political solution but it is the right thing to do. We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted assest…”
This leader is in charge of one of the twelve most powerful warships in the history of America and the world. No more than 5 or 6 are deployed at any one time. Literally 20% of American’s forward deployed combat power.
How about this:
Send a factual status to the chain of command. Figure a way to deal with the situation and to continue the mission with a huge chunk of America’s forward deployed combat power. Because we actually may need that power, sometimes overnight, to protect American troops.
This virus rarely kills the young and healthy (CDC’s numbers are well below 1% of those sick enough to warrant a test and are probablyin the 0.001% range for all young/healthy exposed). You have large amounts of medical personnel aboard and the assets of the entire US Navy to assist.
This is not some office in Scranton making mortgage loans.
Instead, what should have been a TS level status brief turns into an embarrassing public situation, leaked to the press by this “leader,” that has paralyzed a national asset because a few dudes got the sniffles and the Captain sh!t in his pants.
All in front of the Chinese who are taking notes.
Those sailors have no clue how the Captain endangered their ship
by sending an unsecured email.
And showed that he had never even given them the slightest awareness of keeping distance from each other.
ChiComs are taking notes... perilous times.
I wonder if Crozier is gay? An Obama promotion. He certainly acts more like a Pentagon weenie than a line officer.
Popular with the men....that means something.
Not sure the Navy didn’t have it under control. He knew the Media would have a field day. We will know if he runs for President on the Dem. ticket.
Gayness abounds
I do remember the movie BEHIND ENEMY LINES (2001)...
Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) decides to rescue a naval aviator, ignoring his orders...
He is dismissed from his command...He gets off the aircraft carrier while the sailors were cheering...
Maybe Captain Crozier informed his chain of command and they refused to take any action, and he wanted a record of his demands for a tion.
You can bet your ass that if large numbers of the crew were infected, he would have been the one blamed for the carrier being non- combat ready.
I think he was acting in the best interest of his crew; and the Navy.
Congress will be investigating and I suspect he will be vindicated.
If he got no help from the chain of command, then he should have gone to the Navy IG. But he never, ever should have given information to the press that a major combatant is essentially out of action. Mega no, no.
35 years ago the Navy personnel would have been PISSED at a captain who publicly stated they were combat ineffective and the military and civil leadership were to blame.
"Further testing has been halted and isolation periods are being extended for sailors, more than three weeks after the ship docked in Guam on March 27, according to a memo viewed by Politico"
Isolation within a large group that includes infected people is not isolation from the disease.
Testing 200 people per day, and taking a month to test the whole group, results in people who tested negative weeks ago having turned positive thereafter. Whenever the weeks-long process is completed, the group that has tested negative will contain people who are now positive. It appears that exercise in futility has been aborted, at least for now.
Disinfecting the ship involves first creating a group of people who are known to be negative to do the disinfecting and maintenance.