Posted on 04/29/2020 7:28:56 AM PDT by McGruff
The Navy will conduct a wider investigation of circumstances surrounding the spread of the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, a move that effectively delays a decision on whether to reinstate the ship’s captain.
The investigation was announced Wednesday by James E. McPherson, the acting Navy secretary, who said in a brief written statement that an initial inquiry was insufficient. “I have unanswered questions that the preliminary inquiry has identified and that can only be answered by a deeper review,” he said.
...“This investigation will build on the good work of the initial inquiry to provide a more fulsome understanding of the sequence of events, actions, and decisions of the chain of command surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt.”
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Frankly, I’ve never heard of a 5-10 day government investigation. Don’t they take months and years?
Which POS, lower than whale dung, despicable scumbag in the chain of command who had access to that letter the Captain wrote leaked it to the press as a political tool to be used against the Commander in Chief, and if discovered, will the treasonous SOB be hung by the neck until dead?
That is my only question.
Although if not hung by the neck until dead, I could live with a keelhauling from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, after she has had a few years to build up some barnicles and other marine growth on the hull.
In plain speak, the Navy will keep investigating until this personnel decision is no longer a matter of public interest, and then the commander will still be removed. Decisions on military personnel should not be made at the whim of public opinion.
The fact that the Captain allowed that send off circus to take place on that ship is reason enough not to reinstate. A disgraceful lack of respect for the chain of command.
In other words, the grounds for reinstating a fired aircraft carrier commander require more than liberal media outrage based on half the story
Sounds like they just want statements for the record from every level of the chain-of-command. They must not have all the ‘eyes dotted’ and ‘tees crossed’. To me it sounds like they know what they want to do, but need more time to prepare a justification for that decision (whatever that is).
Since he wasn’t Captain anymore and had been relieved, did he have any way to stop it.
Could it have been any of the 20 people outside his chain of command that he cc’d?
Sure wasnt the Admiral quartered down the corridor from him, who was unaware and he did not discuss with.
Face it, Chopper went rogue and sent a 5 page screed to a whole bunch of people with loose lips...and you know what loose lips do to ships.
I think we need to know who let the ship dock in Vietnam for liberty call.
Dumb.
All we need to know is who leaked the info?
The captain himself “leaked it” by sending it out via unsecured email. If I’m not mistaken, he either sent it directly to the Navy Times or other news outlet, or he sent it to an intermediate who then sent it to the media.
he could have stopped it, of that I have no doubt.
Davidson made the decision about Viey Nam not Crozier.
Supposedly reports of email going to 30 people not true. It was his 3 superiors and 10 captains.
The Navy officer corps is cannibalistic, hands down.
Look at any Navy officer’s court-martial or relief for cause going clear back to 1812.
Once a naval officer is screwed over, he STAYS screwed over.
I turned down an appointment to USNA at Annapolis. Went Army instead. No regrets.
Amazing how the Chinese navy has no outbreaks. /s
I cannot think of anything more disgusting as to refer to the state of the Navy right now as being “a chain of command”
There is an isolation and inaproachability at the highest levels that has not been seen in the west since the First World War.
We have diarrhetic suckups on this site who dare not assess the state of affairs as it is...because they were both part of it and part of moving it towards what it has become.
I literally do not think that we could do worse building a new Navy entirely from scratch and retaining no command personnel
Supposedly, yeah
This is a nice way of permanently dry-docking him.
Whatever, the person or persons responsible for the leak to the SF Comical must be punished.
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