Posted on 04/02/2020 9:43:01 PM PDT by Helicondelta
The US Navy fired the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier stuck in port and dealing with a severe coronavirus outbreak, Navy leaders said Thursday afternoon.
"Today, at my direction, the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Capt. Brett Crozier, was relieved of command," Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday. "I did not come to this decision lightly."
Modly said he lost confidence in the commanding officer.
The Navy's decision to relieve Crozier came after he wrote a letter to Navy leadership begging the military branch to take decisive action to counter the spread of the virus on the carrier by getting sailors off the ship as soon as possible.
The letter was leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle, the captain's hometown newspaper, which published it on Tuesday.
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The captain is a talentless insubordinate schlub, and the Navy chain of command is incompetant and retarded.
I agree with the last part.
“The navy doesn’t assign just anybody to command a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier - this Captain was one of the best they had.”
No but the captain and every other person on that ship knows that with it comes to maintaining the custody of nuclear reactors and especially nuclear weapons, that lives are not the primary concern.
I can see you never served around nuclear weapons.
I will also point out that his reports were not ignored but that the navy was handling it differently than he wanted. The Navy was not responsible to publish how they were going to handle it.
The Captain should have trusted his superiors rather than break the chain of command and release what was surly classified information to the public.
False assumption on your part - actually several; the Captain never considering abandoning or endangering the nukes - or any other part of his ship. No, the navy command structure wasted almost two weeks since the discovery of infected sailors. What connection I have had with nuclear weapons is not to be discussed on this or any forum.
Captain Crozier successfully commanded the Blue Ridge and served as XO on a carrier before that. He was and is a proven leader but the navy chain of command considered his troops to be expendable - at least until his last letter was leaked.
You underestimate just how political and how self interested our military leadership has become over the last few years.
“False assumption on your part “
Ignorance on display and I can not get past the first sentence.
For the military stupid among us.
The readiness and ability of any military unit to deploy a nuclear weapon within the requirements of their mission is highly classified information.
Period.
Now I’ll go back and find more to post about.
The rest of the post was BS too. Going outside of the chain of command with obviously classified data and the unauthorized release of that classified data is a matter that can be litigated within the power of the UCMJ.
You can take your jumble of ignorant words and put them with the rest of your rationalizations that mean absolutely nothing.
This captain screwed up and his career is toast. I doubt if they court martial him because libs would have a heyday telling their lies about what was and is at risk.
A book deal and a job at CNN. Notice his home town?
You do understand that you are just making noise, right?
I, along with anyone and everyone who has ever worked around nuclear weapons or reactors, know your talking shit and ignorant of the subject.
But carry on you are entertaining in your ignorance of what we have all been mandatory trained on at least twice each and every year of that service.
Haven’t had enough attention, have you? I suspect that you didn’t get far in the service and now you’re feigning some vast knowledge about subjects you’ve barely touched.
Sad.
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