Posted on 04/02/2020 2:01:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy is expected to relieve the commander of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter that leaked to the public asking the Navy for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak onboard, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Captain Brett Crozier was being relieved not because he wrote the letter and sent it up through the chain of command but because the Navy believes he leaked it to the media.
One of the officials said a formal announcement could be made as early as Thursday.
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Good!
Don’t let the screen door hit ya, jackass.
What a dumb ass
Keep the healthy Marines.
Keep the healthy nuke team members.
Keep a small, healthy port and starboard watch and get all others off the ship.
It would work.
I feel like he needed some sort of reprimand for letting it get to where it did, although some here have said it is hard to stop this kind of thing.
Look at his service record ... hopscotch ... then upward movement during Bobo ... but still , how do you get that ship without a clear command pathway?
Probably what he had in mind.
Its pathetic that weve reached the point where we have one of our aircraft carrier commanders feeling the call to virtue signal with his leaking to the media. Relieve him from command ASAP!
Lots of criticism for the CO. But another Freeper said on an earlier thread that PACOM ordered the ship to a port call in Vietnam in March despite the CO’s objections, well into the period where that should have seemed incredibly stupid. Sailors usually catch enough stuff going into foreign ports. The outcome here should have been obvious. But sometimes the Flags gotta have their fun I guess (shades of Admiral Boorda?).
IF he was the ‘leaker’ he may be Court Martialed...............
Even IF he wasn’t the leaker. His letter alone was reason enough to decide he was unfit to command an aircraft carrier.
His actions likely caused the whole outbreak. His letter only whined about needing to get all the crew ashore and take the ship out of action. He had NO requests for men or supplies to get the ship back into action.
95% of his letter were his crackpot opinions on testing, wanting 4000 separate CDC worthy rooms (on Guam), getting the crew ashore, etc.
We have 11 fleet carriers. There is someone else out there who can take over and remember his main concern is keeping that ship fully ready.
Good riddance.
The Obama Navy in a Nutshell, it’s going to take years to undo the damage.
Reserve ignorant comments until it's verified..........
You assume correctly, sir! He will be double-dipping very shortly and rewarded for his complaint.
Exactly. He has nobody to blame but himself.
And he could have also requested any needed extra sailors be rushed to Guam to fill out the crew and keep the ship ready.
His number one concern was not keeping the carrier available.
the Crozier clan apparently keeping up their record of disastrous naval expeditions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crozier
What if he is innocent?
Must there be a scapegoat?
Get him out if he did.
Reserve ignorant comments until it’s verified..........
I guess you can’t read, “if...” Telling.
If he leaked, he deserves everything the Navy throws at him. I watch and wait.
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