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There’s another side to the story of the fired Navy Captain
American Thinker ^ | April 4, 2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/04/2020 9:30:04 AM PDT by jazusamo

Everyone is up in arms about the fact that the Navy brass fired Captain Brett Crozier, of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, after Crozier complained about people on his ship being infected with COVID-19. To many people, he was a lone man fighting a hardened bureaucracy on behalf of the men and women in his care. To others, though, he was a dangerous malcontent who placed his entire ship at risk by ignoring rules that exist for a reason.

The report about Captain Brett Crozier, whose ship, the USS Roosevelt, was docked in Guam, broke like a bomb on March 31. Here’s the Stars and Stripes report on that day:

The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt has requested permission to remove most of the aircraft carrier’s crew from the ship and isolate roughly 4,000 sailors to help curtail a coronavirus outbreak aboard the vessel.

Capt. Brett Crozier wrote in an unaddressed letter Monday to Navy leadership that the ship’s environment is “most conducive to spread of the disease” with open shared sleeping areas, shared restrooms and workspaces, and confined passageways to move through on the ship. He wrote the Roosevelt’s crew is unable to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or Navy procedures to protect the health of sailors through individual isolation on the ship for 14 or more days.

“Due to a warship's inherent limitations of space, we are not doing this. The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating,” Crozier wrote.

Crozier was an instant hero for taking a stand on behalf of his crew. Indeed, the Navy’s initial response was to say that Crozier would not be punished for being so candid about conditions aboard his ship.

However, two days after the Crozier story broke, the Navy removed him...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brettcrozier; captaincrozier; chainofcommand; coronavirus; crozier; guam; navy; relievedofcommand; usnavy; ussroosevelt; worstexcerptever
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The captain sounds like an 0bama perfumed prince.
1 posted on 04/04/2020 9:30:04 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Like Vindman he did not follow chain of command

Shouldn’t be in military


2 posted on 04/04/2020 9:33:13 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Just like the perfumed idiots at the NSC that tried sabotaging Trump. Gitmo tribunals.


3 posted on 04/04/2020 9:33:58 AM PDT by databoss
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To: jazusamo

Or like an Emotional Thinker, who has no business commanding an aircraft carrier.


4 posted on 04/04/2020 9:35:53 AM PDT by Captain Walker
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To: databoss

What if the chain of command in this instance was unresponsive? There seems to be something missing here — he was on the same ship (and “feet away”) from the fleet commander. Did they not get along? Was his superior against
taking any action?


5 posted on 04/04/2020 9:35:56 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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“The captain sounds like an 0bama perfumed prince.”

That’s my take. If an enlisted had broken the chain of command the way this guy did, there would be a court marshal, and potential dishonable discharge.

I knew this story had some serious stink.


6 posted on 04/04/2020 9:36:09 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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“What if the chain of command in this instance was unresponsive?”

Then document, and inform that you’re going one step up. There is a right way, and a wrong way.


7 posted on 04/04/2020 9:37:33 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: CondorFlight
The writer of the piece states clearly that if the captain had, in fact, gone up the chain of command and instead had a deaf ear turned to him, then his whole opinion column is null and void.
8 posted on 04/04/2020 9:38:23 AM PDT by Captain Walker
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Loose lips sink ships. Especially when the Commander emails an open letter to a newspaper. What an idiot. He deserves worse than what he got IMO.


9 posted on 04/04/2020 9:39:13 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: jazusamo

As with so much these days, this is just weird. The Navy does not just hand the keys to a freaking Nimitz-class flattop to a random airdale. There’s a lot of competition for that job.

What’s even stranger is that the captain didn’t discuss this with the admiral, on the same ship, whose quarters were next door to the captain. They saw each other every single day. How does a guy just decide to chuck his career overboard in this fashion?

None of this makes any sense at all.


10 posted on 04/04/2020 9:39:32 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: CondorFlight

Even if that were true it doesn’t justify Crozier sending letter to over 20 people knowing full well it would be leaked to press.


11 posted on 04/04/2020 9:39:55 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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The guy didn't do his job. With enormous resources at his beck and call he did nothing except whine that he was helpless.

He complained his ship needed cleaning proving he couldn't even organize his own top to bottom "field day."

The best maintenance mechanics and machine shops in the world and he couldn't figure out how to help himself. He could have set up quarantine stations on the hangar deck. He could have set up watch shifts and rotations to keep healthy people away from sick people. He could have asked to use his planes to fly in testing kits and experts to train his medical staff so he could test everyone on board and isolate sick from healthy.

There is a lot he could have done. And he has a lot of capable and creative folks working for him - officers and senior and junior enlisted. He wasn't on his own. But instead of drawing on the best of himself and his command he disgraced and embarrassed everyone.

12 posted on 04/04/2020 9:39:56 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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He copied 20 people on the Unaddressed letter, sent over an unsecured line with Classified info!!

Betcha he's a Total Democrat!

13 posted on 04/04/2020 9:40:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Loose lips sink... careers.


14 posted on 04/04/2020 9:41:42 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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“Modly said Crozier had cc’ed more than 20 people, including some outside the chain of command, over unsecured and unclassified systems, assuring the memo’s leak.

He also said Crozier did not speak to his direct superior, carrier strike group commander Rear Adm. Stuart Baker, about his concerns before sending the memo, despite Baker being on the carrier and living within feet of Crozier.”


If this is accurate info, he is/was unfit for command.

Have a solution Capt. Fire one!


15 posted on 04/04/2020 9:41:45 AM PDT by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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>>> The captain sounds like an 0bama perfumed prince.

Who will probably turn the Wesley Clark and Joe Sesstak route.

If he’s not using his service as a jumping stone, then I take back my words.

Of course all three mentioned here are still WAAAAAAAAAAY better than the American gigolo John Fn Kerry.


16 posted on 04/04/2020 9:43:27 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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17 posted on 04/04/2020 9:43:47 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Making public issues of the ship’s preparedness not only put his crew in danger but the nation he serves to defend.


18 posted on 04/04/2020 9:44:00 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: jazusamo; LonePalm; reed13k

:: “Navy procedures to protect the health of sailors...we are not doing this.”

I think I can see commander Crozier’s problem, right here.
Having never served, even ^I^ know better than to tell the higher command that you aren’t going to follow their commands.
On top of that, he isn’t intellectually fit since he put the same in writing.
!! The stupid...it burns !!


19 posted on 04/04/2020 9:44:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous)
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To: jazusamo

Not defending him by any stretch. Taking your beef to the press is an unforgivable sin. IMHO. At the same time I can understand why he didn’t want to lose half of his Staff in the next couple of weeks. That would have put the ship into “non mission capable” for a long time. I guess they could fly in new officers but for how long? Standing watch on these duty stations has to be something you train for for years. I imagine the senior NCOs are in their 50s.

I know what I would do but I ain’t saying because it might be too close to “correct”.


20 posted on 04/04/2020 9:45:30 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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