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Acting Navy Secretary Resigns in Wake of USS Roosevelt Comments
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 7, 2020 | By Gordon Lubold

Posted on 04/07/2020 12:51:27 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

WASHINGTON—Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday following an uproar after he excoriated the former captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, whose crew had become stricken with the coronavirus, according to U.S. military officials.

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To: US Navy Vet
Mr. Modly took the unusual step over the weekend of traveling to the carrier, which now is at port in Guam, to angrily criticize the ship’s former captain in an address to the ship’s crew.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

Vince Lombardy

21 posted on 04/07/2020 1:02:42 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: SaxxonWoods
The good news is, got rid of two idiots with one incident.

For some reason your comment reminded me of something I heard Jack Loizeaux, founder of CDI (Controlled Demolition Inc.) say about his company's top-dog position in the business: "Our competition... usually takes themselves out." There was a very cute pause after the word "competition."

22 posted on 04/07/2020 1:02:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: US Navy Vet

Not surprising.


23 posted on 04/07/2020 1:03:02 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: US Navy Vet

This turned into a PR disaster for the Navy when the Acting Secretary made his comments to the ship’s crew about a man they admired and respected. In all my years in the Army, I never heard such a personal attack from a senior person on someone junior to them, particularly after they had been removed from command was wasn’t able to defend themselves. Good bye and good riddance.


24 posted on 04/07/2020 1:03:30 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: SkyDancer
I don’t think the captain leaked the information rather his email was leaked by someone else.

Then logic dictates one of 2 things:

1) Someone inside the chain of command who is authorized to deal with classified info received it and leaked it, in which case that person needs to be fired and probably prosecuted.

or...

2) The Captain sent the email to someone outside the chain of command who was NOT authorized to receive classified info, which is the very same thing we're all screaming for Hillary's head over.

It's got to be one or the other.


25 posted on 04/07/2020 1:05:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: US Navy Vet

Ok that’s fine but the Navy has not been “plunged into dissaray”.

Maybe during and immediately after Pearl Harbor, part of the Navy was in dissaray.


26 posted on 04/07/2020 1:05:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Both wrong.”

Agreed.


27 posted on 04/07/2020 1:05:54 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: US Navy Vet

It was a Navy management matter. He didn’t need to explain himself to the crew nor spotlight the former CO. If he had to say anything at all, he could have kept it short, simple, perhaps encouraging, but all business. He might have offered guidance to the ranking officers and CPOs through a directive until the new CO takes the reins.


28 posted on 04/07/2020 1:06:22 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Scratch two idiots. Captain was unfit overall. The SecNav had no reason to explain to the snowflakes why he did it. Very bad habit. Give your order, let the new Captain execute it.


29 posted on 04/07/2020 1:06:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: US Navy Vet
I understand why he was let go because of the leak. It was a breach of protocol and it had to be addressed.

However, kicking a man when he's down in front of the people who believed he was trying to help them was out of line.

Did no one review his speech? Did no one tell him it's one thing to be firm in your actions and it's another to be a jerk?

30 posted on 04/07/2020 1:07:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: US Navy Vet

The Navy is a mess.


31 posted on 04/07/2020 1:07:40 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: US Navy Vet

I think its a damn shame when the Navy Secretary cant call out a stupid move without “ offending” the crew of a ship that was endangered by that stupid move

Reminds me of the press campaign that got Patton fired for glove slapping a blubbering GI in a field hospital


32 posted on 04/07/2020 1:07:55 PM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

*** He could have referred to chain of command and operational security... it would have been enough, I think ***

zactly


33 posted on 04/07/2020 1:07:57 PM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Midwesterner53
Wonderful! Now get Captain Crozier back to his ship.

The Chinese will be happy about that...

Did you forget the sarcasm tag or have you lost your mind ?

34 posted on 04/07/2020 1:08:02 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Praise in public, criticize in private. Leadership 101.

Agree with you, there were any number of flag officers in the CO’s chain of command that could have, and should have, provided any needed speech to the crew. Having SECNAV there to spew that crap, using the “sailor language” that he did, was completely unnecessary . . . and the sailor language was totally inappropriate coming from leadership.


35 posted on 04/07/2020 1:08:10 PM PDT by USNA74
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To: US Navy Vet

Can’t say I’m disappointed in his resignation. He demonstrated a lack of sensitivity to the concept of naval morale, for being an academy grad. His confirmation was going to be a tough go in the Senate, after his 1MC speech.


36 posted on 04/07/2020 1:08:50 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken)
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To: Midwesterner53

No way. Crozier is utterly unfit to command such a ship.


37 posted on 04/07/2020 1:08:52 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SkyDancer

Rest of the story
Chopper went Hollywood

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/theres_another_side_to_the_story_of_the_fired_navy_captain.html


38 posted on 04/07/2020 1:09:34 PM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: BradyLS

But that’s only if there was a need for the SecNav’s direct involvement. Otherwise, leave the matter to the chain-of-command.


39 posted on 04/07/2020 1:10:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think I read where he sent out several emails on the subject and somehow someone saw it and leaked it; find that person .....


40 posted on 04/07/2020 1:10:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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