Dissapointed.
Poor COMSEC and OPSEC by Crozier.
Will send the wrong message I believe on how to resolve problems / issues.
Rep. Adam Smith (D - Shithole state). Making a demand for a decision before he read the report. Sounds like he’s on something aka Obama and Pelosi and Obamacare. You have to pass it before you can read it.
Only in a Marxist/Leftist Bizarro World do people make stupid statements like Smith’s, but then again, he’s a Democrat where “stupidity” is the “New Norm” and “sanity” as a word and concept is Verboten, mein kommeradin”.
Let justice be done.
The man was persecuted for trying to defend the health and lives of those entrusted to his command.
This, in any other era, would be called good leadership and worthy of high commendation.
One HAS to wonder just how tone deaf the Navy brass is!
Reinstating a Commanding Officer who INTENTIONALLY bypassed the Chain of Command and INTENTIONALLY leaked his letter to the press not only should NOT be reinstated, but forcibly retired!
Acting SECNAV Modly did the right and proper thing by firing Captain Crozier. He screwed up BIGLY by flying to TR and trashing Crozierm and was rightfully fired.
Feeling the heat of the public speaking out on this issue??? Maybe.
Tax payer here. I’m going to say hell no.
Unless we’re talking about serious malpractice of justice, when a captain is removed for administratice cause or fault he should stay removed.
In the business world, if you fire someone for cause, even if that cause is a minor infraction, you do not give the same job back.
So many military absolutists out there demanding blood for an email. CAPT Crozier may be a great officer, may be a slimy politician, but I know a few things.
One of the things I know is that if you destroy a career military man’s career for an act of courage, you will destroy the courage of every career military man within earshot and have an impact crater going out at two levels on hearsay. F’ with valor once and don’t ever expect to see valor again in your neighborhood unless it’s by accident.
Another thing I know is that the U.S. military has a trail of profoundly stupid personnel decisions that could wrap around the earth a thousand times. Thousands of officers who beat their wives and driven around post drunk, abused subordinates and grabbed boobs of subordinate enlisted. Nearly any serviceman can list off a few that they’ve seen and some can rattle off a list a mile long. That so many people consider this particular incident the one that destroys naval operations or command influence everywhere is just dumb.
The only people who don’t eventually mess up are people who never take chances, and those people make sh## officers.