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| Sailors cheer captain forced to leave USS Roosevelt after exposing virus outbreak onboard |
| 2020-04-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Sailors are filmed cheering for Captain Brett Crozier after he was ordered off the USS Roosevelt and stripped of command after a memo he sent pleading for help in containing the outbreak on his ship was leaked to the press. The captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship was fired by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for help to too many people. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Crozier “demonstrated extremely poor judgment” in the middle of a crisis. He said the captain copied too many people on the memo, which was leaked to a California newspaper and quickly spread to many news outlets. So it wasn’t the captain who leaked it, but one of the too many people he copied on it. Definitely poor judgement. Modly’s decision to remove Crozier as ship commander was immediately condemned by members of the House Armed Services Committee, who called it a “destabilizing move” that will “likely put our service members at greater risk and jeopardize our fleet’s readiness.”Modly told Pentagon reporters during an abruptly called press conference Thursday that Crozier should have gone directly to his immediate commanders, who were already moving to help the ship. And he said Crozier created a panic by suggesting 50 sailors could die. The USS Theodore Roosevelt, with a crew of nearly 5,000, is docked in Guam, and the Navy has said as many as 3,000 will be taken off the ship and quarantined by Friday. More than 100 sailors on the ship have tested positive for the virus, but none is hospitalized.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
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| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2020-04-04 16:49 |
| #6 #1 nailed it can we all agree? His going public with the fleet readiness shows panic and a lack of command control and that deserves him to be relieved. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-04-04 14:46 |
| #5 Shouldn't there be a pre-planned response protocol for dealing with an infectious disease outbreak on a US navy vessel? Yea, but the couldn't find it. The only thing they could find is protocol for dealing with transgendered sailor. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 14:42 |
| #4 Shouldn't there be a pre-planned response protocol for dealing with an infectious disease outbreak on a US navy vessel? It could hardly be a surprise that contagious disease can be an issue not to mention bio weapons. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-04-04 14:30 |
| #3 I think they were cheering to see him go ashore |
| Posted by: Whealet Unomp8613 2020-04-04 14:29 |
| #2 I remain in agreement with 49 Pan. 'Popularity is too slender a reed to bear the weight of command.' |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-04-04 13:51 |
| #1 Why not cheer. He was the cool boat captain. Allowed his guys a boat call in Thailand! Even though he knew of the threat. His going public with the fleet readiness shows panic and a lack of command control and that deserves him to be relieved. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2020-04-04 13:34 |