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Military Times - Officials continue to throw Capt. Brett Crozier under the bus for outbreak on Navy carrier
29 June 2020
Any person familiar with civil-military relations in this administration could have predicted that when Capt. Brett Crozier, the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, wrote an unclassified email to 20 people inside and outside his chain of command, complaining about the Navy’s slow response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on his ship, his career in the Navy would be over.
The only question was how and when it would end and what rationale his superiors would use to justify ending it.
On June 19, 2020, approximately three months after the first sailor on board the Roosevelt was diagnosed with COVID-19, the Navy announced that Crozier will not be returned to his command.
The announcement by the Navy’s two top officials - Kenneth Braithwaite, the new Navy secretary, and Adm. Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations (CNO) - claims that Crozier did not do enough soon enough to prevent the disease from spreading on his ship. Really.
Four days after the first COVID-19 diagnosis on the ship on March 22, 2020, Crozier began testing the entire crew and within the next two days, when the Roosevelt docked in Guam, sent eight sailors to the hospital on the island.
Moreover, it was only when his two immediate superiors would not let him take more drastic action, including removing 90 percent of the crew from the ship, as he wanted to, because they did not want to take the carrier out of action and jeopardize the mission, that Crozier sent his infamous four-page memo on March 30.
Crozier writes that “the spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating.” Does that sound like someone who did not do enough soon enough? ...
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kingdragonfly: I wouldn't expect any less from Trump.
He called Kim Jong-un a "very talented man who loves his country very much" and has professed to admire and trust (“We fell in love”)
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