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Exclusive: Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy
San Franscisco Chronicle ^
| 3-31-2020
| M. Gafni & J. Garafoli
Posted on 03/31/2020 2:14:31 PM PDT by John S Mosby
Note: This story has been updated with comments from the U.S. Navy.
The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid possible deaths in a situation he described as quickly deteriorating.
The unusual plea from Capt. Brett Crozier, a Santa Rosa native, came in a letter obtained exclusively by The Chronicle and confirmed by a senior officer on board the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, which has been docked in Guam following a COVID-19 outbreak among the crew of more than 4,000 less than a week ago.
“This will require a political solution but it is the right thing to do,” Crozier wrote. “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 asset — our Sailors.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brettcrozier; carrier; chicoms; coronavirus; crozier; guam; ismellbs; readiness; theodoreroosevelt; usn; usnavy; usstheocoreroosevelt; usstheodoreroosevelt
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To: atc23
San Francisco Chronicle ...isn’t that Pelosi’s home town paper?
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:05:23 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: John S Mosby
Democrats are going to have to recruit that Admiral McRaven guy to run with Kerry... is there anyone else that can pick up where Biden is drooling?
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:07:40 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: TexasGator
"Which MC d7d you say you were affiliated with?"If I told you, sadly, I would have to send a team to terminate you with prejudice.
To: chief lee runamok
“If I told you, sadly, I would have to send a team to terminate you with prejudice. “
Not man enough to come personally?
To: GreyHoundSailor
CVBG CSG
To: TexasGator
If I told you, sadly, I would have to send a team to terminate you with prejudice.
“ Not man enough to come personally?"
You want to meet me in Oregon, come on up little man.
To: cranked
Capt. Brett Crozier, your fired!
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:39:08 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(WE ARE THE MAJORITY lets use it)
To: chief lee runamok
Keel haul the nitwit , if true...using the carrier he “commands .
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:40:28 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: chief lee runamok; TexasGator
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:48:53 PM PDT
by
Bratch
(“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Bratch
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To: chief lee runamok
“Come on up yellow back. I hide behind no one. “
LOL! Perhaps you forgot. You are too chicken to name your MC!
To: John S Mosby
“”Crozier should be swiftly demoted and removed from service.””
De-nutted might be even better.
His defect may be DNA-related and we shouldn’t take any chances
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posted on
03/31/2020 4:57:53 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
(January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
To: John S Mosby
Looks like a perfect situation for chloroquine to be made available to every sailor who succumbs to the virus. Don’t tell me the military doesn’t have chloroquine in stock.
To: carriage_hill
The sailors are all young and supposedly in shape. They are more likely to die in a ship board accident. What’s the big deal? For them it is mostly like having the flu or a cold. Toughen-up, Swabbies! Have we become a nation of snowflakes .
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:04:37 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: hal ogen
I am sure the Captain of this ship is not PLEADING for anything hopefully he is a strong military leader military leader NEVER plead for help!!!
To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
This is also the SF Chronicle. FAKE NEWS!!!
To: GreyHoundSailor
I don't pretend to know anything about navy communique.
It does seem strange this letter is not addressed to someone specific.
Most stories I read from other news organizations, refer back to the San Francisco Chronicle when talking about the letter.
On top of that, the timelines seem all whacked.
The Big Stick has been docked in Guam since 3/27/2020 yet the letter is dated 3/30/2020.
I couldn't find where the Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly admitted the letter exists and he had this to say:
“I heard about the letter from Capt. Crozier (Tuesday) morning, I know that our command organization has been aware of this for about 24 hours and we have been working actually the last seven days to move those sailors off the ship and get them into accommodations in Guam.
Woking on this for 7 days means the Navy has been at it since at least 03/24/2020.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-26-20-intl-hnk/h_7f18073ab7730603b95b2a3520c6f77d
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:16:36 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: GreyHoundSailor
This is complete and utter BS... Bingo!
What was "leaked" to the lib press is almost certainly an amateur knock-off of typical USN phraseology. It is highly unlikely the "letter" Navy Secretary Thomas Modly may have spoke about to CNN.
Easy to imagine investigators are hard at work on this one.
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posted on
03/31/2020 5:28:11 PM PDT
by
frog in a pot
(Trump is in a vicious street fight on our behalf for the soul of our nation.)
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