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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What do you mean????????????????
Well as I understand it......The Captain sent a strongly worded letter to that detailed his concerns about the spread of the virus on the ship that should have gone directly to his immediate commanders who were ALREADY Acting to help the ship...so what he did was undermining their efforts and created a panic.....
Crozier was removed from his post because he sent the letter over “non-secure unclassified email” to a “broad array of people” rather than up the chain of command. .....So had he communicated only with his leadership and not widely distributed the letter, he would likely still have a job on the ship.
Anything that may compromise the battle readiness of a ship, unit, command is highly sensitive, to the point of being classified. The medical condition of the crew can give an adversary an advantage by knowing that the crew’s capabilities are compromised/degraded. The letter, in and of itself, is not the issue; the facts, as are now known, that there were numerous cc’s on the email letter and that it was not on a secured system is where the problem occurs. The CO can not allow this type of information to become public, but apparently did.
bump
Most information regarding operational readiness of combat commands is strictly SIPRNET or JWICS, depending. Unless it's with regard to low number of eggs on board (example: UNCLAS but even this is probably CUI).
FINALLY some FAST ACTION!!! He DESERVED to be Court Martialed!
An “INSECURE E-MAIL”........IS a LEAK!
We are going to leak a letter about the status of a nuclear carrier with two nuclear reactors on board, probable nuclear weapons and act like an idiot while in the open ocean out of pure panic.
What in the hell was the navy supposed to do with that ship? There was nothing there to tie up to so they had to push her on to an American port, and that was Guam.
As the commander of the ship he had a lot of responsibility to his crew but he also had responsibility to secure some damn dangerous assets as well.
Keep you eye on the mission and get it done.
That would be every officer who has been in the military more than three years would't it?
Under normal conditions perhaps. How do you practice social distancing on an aircraft carrier?
My thoughts are he can test everyone, isolate the positives.
It's pretty much a controlled environment and the captain has control of the crews actions and the crew is no doubt above average intelligence.
I'd rather be there than the NYC subway.
The U.S. Navy today is not at all like yesterdays. Sad.
Beg to differ. If he sent out 20-30 copies instead of one to his immediate superior then this person is a mental case. Obviously does not belong on command of a CVN.
There is absolutely NO excuse for what he did. He has brought disrepute upon himself and the navy. He should be courts-martialed.
That's what I'm not clear about. Did he give the chain of command time to respond. Did he leaked the letter to save lives or was seeking publicity?
You can find the 4 page letter here.
Discussing removing all sailers from the ship (minus 10% for nuclear operation, cleaning etc) was very irresponsible indeed.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Exclusive-Captain-of-aircraft-carrier-with-15167883.php
How is your family members feeling? Hope he and the crew are not getting hit hard with CV symptoms.
The SECNAV should have been fired for his inaction in the face of an infected ship but that wasn't going to happen in this era. Much better to punish a conscientious Captain than take the hit for moving slowly.
The Captain was a hero.
Second that. Best comment of the day.
RLTW
By accident or on purpose, Pandemic World War One has already started. Even if we don’t know it yet.
If it was on purpose, then naval vessels and some small, isolated ChiCom commando / spetznaz bases become big force multipliers, because they can be kept Coronavirus “pure” for later attacks when their Western enemy forces are all infected and not battle ready.
(Even if PWW1 was not begun on purpose, getting a head start on quarantining key military assets becomes a big factor.)
China is only strong because we LET them grow strong, due to our stupidity and greed for cheap shit. That’s OVER. Now China HAS to make it’s big move FAST, or it is like a hot-house flower factory after the greenhouse glass is all smashed and only hail is coming down instead of sunshine.
The CCP has 1.5 billion mouths to feed, and they can’t feed themselves on their own. Impossible. When the rest of the world dials down their imports from China as a survival move, big strong China as we know it DIES. So it HAS to make its big move RIGHT NOW, while we are nearly on our backs economically.
If the CCP/Chinese Communist-Nazi Party waits for Uncle Sam to recover, they are DONE. Then all we have to do is boycott them as nasty dirty lying cheating bio-war-spreading bastards, and they will STARVE. Famine, revolution and the end of the CCP follows. (And we should NEVER forget the American and Western Quisling traitors who profited massively by setting us up for this inevitable PWW1)
Then, only after China (the sick man of Asia) has its begging bowl out to the the world again, then MAYBE, they can be slowly welcomed back into global citizenship good standing. IF they can prove they are not still lying, filthy, bat-eating bio-weapon-spreading bastards. Hanging every member of the Chinese Communist Nazi Party would be a necessary start of that process.
Agreed. You send one letter via secure comms to your immediate superior, with a note at the end to the effect, “I urgently await your rapid response.”
THEN if nothing is heard in a few days (a reply like “Your urgent medical situation is understood; move to Guam at best speed”) only then do you jump the chain of command and send it higher. But sending it to 20 CCs on the first go is inexcusable.
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