About Capt Crozier ...

[marble falls]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Crozier

He grew up in Santa Rosa, California, graduating from Santa Rosa High School in 1988 prior to entering the U.S. Naval Academy.[7] After graduating in 1992, he became a Naval Aviator and was assigned as a SH-60B Seahawk pilot at Barbers Point, Hawaii.[8] He received his Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in 2007, and completed Nuclear Power School in 2014.[9]

Career

In April 2014, Crozier completed the Naval Nuclear Power training program and was executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (Nuclear Aircraft Carrier). In June 2017, Crozier took command of USS Blue Ridge (amphious assault ship) in Yokosuka, Japan.

Decorations:

Legion of Merit w/ 1 gold service star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal w/ 1 silver oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal w/ 2 gold service stars, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal w/ 1 gold service star, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy E Ribbon w/ 2 Battle E devices, National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 service star, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Iraq Campaign Medal w/ 1 service star, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon w/ 3 service stars Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon
NATO Medal, Navy Rifle Marksmanship Medal w/ "E" device Navy Pistol Marksmanship Medal w/ "E" device.

This is a seriously competent person.

[DFW]

1. " seriously competent "

Well, no wonder the Trumpanzees wanted him out. People like that terrify them.

[Kali]

2. exactly

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Seriously competent Captain

canned by a seriously incompetent President.......

Go figure........

[Ohioboy]

32. Exactly!

[ffr]

21. Can't have someone who thinks they know more about the military than Dotard

I'm so out of fucks to give at this point. Come on November! We need to clean house of every single solitary politician with an R by their name.

[DFW]

22. I know. They constitute as great an infection on the land as any virus currently making the rounds.

Any there won't be any vaccine for that infection, either.

[lastlib]

37. The only anitdote for an infection like that is VOTES!

In MASSIVE quantities! GOTFV! Bring friends!!

[NBachers]

40. I Gotta ask . . . What was the percentage of military vote support for Bone Spurs Piss-ant Trump?

And what will his support ratio be in this election?

[DFW]

47. In short:

1. Too much

and

2. Less this time!

[Fla Dem]

49. Yep, exactly.

[SKKY]

3. The video of his send-off tells me all I really need to know about Skipper Crozier...

I suspect he'll land in a good place after all the dust is settled.

[COLGATE4]

9. Unfortunately (for him and for us) his career is

ended. He'll wind up in some nothing billet and be passed over for promotion the next two times, forcing him to resign. A magnificent career from an Annapolis graduate shot down in flames by Trumpism.

[Steven Maurer]

17. If Trump is not reelected, I expect that to change

Biden has personally come to the man's defense. If you have the POTUS in your corner, your career is quite the opposite of toast.

[COLGATE4]

43. Just one of many good things I'm looking forward to

when Biden is elected President.

[SKKY]

20. Oh, when I said he will land in a good place...

...that doesn't necessarily mean he stays in the Navy.

[COLGATE4]

42. You're right. My mistake.

[FightingIrish]

4. He was clearly on track for a very high position in the Navy.

He is being disciplined for sending a letter up the chain of command. His desperation is clear in the letter and he very likely sent classified messages to his superiors that were brushed off. He will now be reassigned to a billet far below his capabilities. He will be passed over for promotion twice and forced to retire. He should resign and use his status as a true American hero to rid this country of Donald Trump.

[BComplex]

5. "This is a seriously competent person." That's why trump fired him.

Too much of a threat.

[gibraltar72]

6. Yuuuge PR mistake for Navy.

Our military will take years getting Trump stink off them. Their ass kissing is going to cost them big time in long run.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. This

Said the same on another thread

[elleng]

12. Yes

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Except it wasn't the Navy. He was fired by ACTING political APPOINTEE. Whodja think is Modly's boss?

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tRump

Crozier was fired for creating a panic with the memo and demonstrating “extremely poor judgment” during a crisis, according to Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly. He said Crozier had allowed “emotion” to affect his judgment and that he should have kept the memo within the chain of command.

“What it does, it undermines our efforts and the chain of command’s efforts to address this problem and creates a panic and creates the perception that the navy is not on the job, the government is not on the job, and it’s just not true,” Modly said.

[sarge43]

31. Thank you for this clarification. "Whodja think is Modly's boss?"

The only 'panic' was Moron's. "That soldier{sic} made me look badly. Fire his ass!"

[IcyPeas]

7. but now what happens to the infected crew?

will we ever hear another word about this ship?

[marble falls]

8. Will we ever hear about a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier again? They're not going to use it for ...

gunnery practice. This is a very decorated ship, a little old (short of thirty years) but it's been very active.

The crew has been ordered down to 400 personnel to keep the reactors maintained, as well as the galley and essential electronics. And a clean up operation has started or will shortly. Its at Guam and there's a huge military presence there. They will be fine.

[Chainfire]

11. Only the top eleven men

In the surface Navy become captains of nuclear carriers. The Navy has tens of of millions of dollars invested in the Captain's training, but yet they want to throw it all away because he fought to save his sailor's lives. Shame on the Navy, the DOD and our draft-dodging Commander in Chief. It is what you get when an idiot CIC wants to surround himself with bootlickers.

Perhaps President Biden will restore the Captain to command.

[marble falls]

14. About the SecNav's "qualifications" ...

Thomas B. Modly is an American businessman and government official who has served as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy since November 24, 2019.

Modly, who was confirmed as the United States Under Secretary of the Navy on December 4, 2017, performed the duties of the Secretary of the Navy while Richard V. Spencer was Acting Secretary of Defense and Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense from July 15, 2019, to July 31, 2019.[1]
Career

Modly is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Georgetown University, and Harvard Business School. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as a helicopter pilot and spent seven years as a U.S. Navy officer.[2] He has held various leadership positions at Iconixx, Oxford Associates, and UNC Inc.,[3] and taught political science at the United States Air Force Academy.[4]

Modly served as the managing director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers global government and public services sector and as the firm's global government defense network leader. He has served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Financial Management and as the first executive director of the Defense Business Board.

He was nominated to become Navy Undersecretary by President Donald Trump in September 2017 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate two months later.[5]

On April 1, 2020, as Acting Secretary of the Navy, he dismissed Capt. Brett Crozier for raising the alarm over widespread COVID-19 infections onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.[6][7][8][9][10]

[SeattleVet]

15. President Biden should appoint him as Secretary of the Navy.

[AtheistCrusader]

18. Qualifications to command a carrier group are steep.

Might be better just to put him back on his ship.

[jeffreyi]

13. Yea, yeah yeah.

Just another slacker, feet in the trough.

[warmfeet]

23. Wow!

Seriously competent and accomplished. It certainly seems like this maladministration is trying to undermine every good thing in this country. It certainly seems purposeful.

[marble falls]

24. The press is reporting Trump ordered it.

[Historic NY]

25. G.O.A.T

if your men call you that then, you are the best of the best.....where you lead they will follow. We haven't heard the end of this

[caraher]

26. You don't rise to command of a nuclear aircraft carrier without being seriously competent

Unlike rising to become commander-in-chief

[LiberalFighter]

27. About Thomas Modly, Acting Secretary of the Navy

All around jerk.

[marble falls]

29. Well, he is qualified as a jerk. Not so much as Sect'ry of the Navy.

[capechacon]

28. We have met the enemy and....

it is the entire Trump administration.

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. Baaaah...Dudes like that are a dime a dozen.

Do I REALLY need this?




I've said it before, but it will take this country decades to recover from this orange nitwit.

[marble falls]

33. I got a hide posting about Trumpstock. Some people couldn't see it was a giant fiasco ...

I got it removed the next day.

[The Wizard]

34. Remember when Trump

the jerkoff pardoned a depraved convicted war criminal. Keep posting this on social media. The toxic son of a bitch must be neutered.

[calimary]

35. Malcolm Nance just said Captain Crozier is his nominee for the next Secretary of the Navy

in a Democratic White House.

I certainly agree.

[DFW]

52. It sounds like he would be a perfect fit to follow in Bud Zumwalt's shoes

Instead of Z-grams, C-grams!

[Ohioboy]

36. Trump is f---ing with OUR military when he does this

We need the best people in the right places in our military, and from what I hear of Crozier is one of those people. In the end it is OUR military and our emergency stockpile of emergency hospital supplies, not Trump's.

[Rogerpatterson]

38. Competency means nothing to republicans

All the witnesses in the House's impeachment were highly competent professionals and you see how they were treated by the republicans. You have to lie for Trump if you don't want to raise their ire. The supporters are to blame for all of this including the death of a good portion of coronavirus victims. They are still out there lying daily.

[kimbutgar]

39. Malcolm Nance said Wednesday that this was on track to being an admiral

Obviously speaking the truth and protecting your crew is dishonorable now?????



I curse that thin skinned POS in the Whitehouse so much. I hope someday sooner rather then later he goes down in flames.

[Ilsa]

41. Trump won't even get his "acting" secretaries

approved by the Senate. He's a chickenshit.

[Blue Owl]

44. I'd like to see someone use Donnie's head for a 20-minute speedbag workout

n/t

[marble falls]

45. This is plenty good for me ...

[AwakeAtLast]

46. He should run for Congress! n/t

[marble falls]

50. The Senate, an appointment to the Cabinet. This should not be allowed to retire him to fishing.

[dlk]

48. This was about the negative PR for the administration

It had nothing to do with the safety and well-being of our service members. Crozier was sacrificed on the altar of Trump’s ego. Thank you, GOP!

[marble falls]

53. Its all about the same illusion that Putin and Xi have, too, that with holding information ...

reduces panic. That might work if they had a grip on it, but they don't. And that will cause panic and anger when the truth presents itself and no PR or State security will keep the truth hidden. Then you add the native stupidity of Trump to the mix and the relatively free nature of the US press ... and here we are. There is no leadership in the White House.

[dlk]

55. It's an authoritarian approach

[marble falls]

56. And that kind of control is an illusion. "The truth will out"

[dlk]

57. Yes, and it will only go so far in the Us

[keithbvadu2]

51. The new CO is stepping into a lousy situation.

The new CO is stepping into a lousy situation.

He is almost a political appointee through no fault of his own..

[marble falls]

54. I wouldn't want to take over under those circumastances.

[yonder]

58. Stunning contrast between the Captain and his CoC.

[marble falls]

59. and the Secretary of the Navy ...

Thomas Modly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Assumed office
December 4, 2017
President Donald Trump
Preceded by Thomas P. Dee (acting)


Thomas B. Modly is an American businessman and government official who has served as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy since November 24, 2019.

Modly, who was confirmed as the United States Under Secretary of the Navy on December 4, 2017, performed the duties of the Secretary of the Navy while Richard V. Spencer was Acting Secretary of Defense and Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense from July 15, 2019, to July 31, 2019.[1]
Career

Modly is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Georgetown University, and Harvard Business School. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as a helicopter pilot and spent seven years as a U.S. Navy officer.[2] He has held various leadership positions at Iconixx, Oxford Associates, and UNC Inc.,[3] and taught political science at the United States Air Force Academy.[4]

Modly served as the managing director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers global government and public services sector and as the firm's global government defense network leader. He has served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Financial Management and as the first executive director of the Defense Business Board.

He was nominated to become Navy Undersecretary by President Donald Trump in September 2017 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate two months later.[5]

On April 2, 2020, as Acting Secretary of the Navy, he dismissed Capt. Brett Crozier due to loss of confidence and for not using the chain of command to alert Navy leaders of his concerns about an outbreak of COVID-19 infections onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which Crozier commanded.[6][7][8][9][10]


Seven year flying helos as an LT. BFD!

[marble falls]

60. This just plain says it all ...

Link to tweet