Navy captain who was removed from command of aircraft carrier tests positive for CV

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-crozier-positive-coronavirus.html



Captain Crozier was fired after a leak of a letter he had emailed to Navy leaders detailing the service's failures in dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.

By John Ismay
April 5, 2020, 11:55 a.m. ET

Capt. Brett E. Crozier, the Navy captain who was removed from command of the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, has tested positive for Covid-19, according to two Naval Academy classmates of Crozier’s who are close to him and his family.

A Navy spokesman declined to comment on Crozier’s Covid status.

The commander began exhibiting symptoms before he was removed from the warship on Thursday, two of his classmates said. Crozier was fired following a leak to The San Francisco Chronicle of a letter he had emailed to Navy leaders that detailed the failures on the service’s part to provide the necessary resources to swiftly move sailors off the carrier and disinfect areas on board as the virus spread through the ship.

Thomas B. Modly, the acting secretary of the Navy, said he had lost confidence in Crozier’s ability to command the ship effectively as it dealt with the evolving crisis after Crozier sent the letter on an unclassified email system to 20 to 30 people. Sending such a letter, Modly said, caused unnecessary alarm about the operational readiness of the ship and undermined the chain of command. “In sending it out pretty broadly, he did not take care to ensure that it couldn’t be leaked,” Modly said. “And that’s part of his responsibility.”

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Jesus...

[tanyev]

1. Crap.

[3catwoman3]

2. All of this is so not right.

Wishing Captain Crozier a full recovery.

[gibraltar72]

3. Damn the incompetent bungling administration all to hell.

[BGBD]

4. you can see

hum shakungbhands with the guys by the car in the video of him deboarding the ship. I was surprised to see that, and now it is very cringeworthy.

[dewsgirl]

5. Damn.😔

[Dennis Donovan]

28. If I ventured a guess, I'd suspect the reason he sent the blast email to 30 superiors...

...was because the "chain of command" he was talking to previously wanted to use CVN-71 as a giant test bed to see how a US aircraft carrier would fare with a CV outbreak. They might not have come out and said it to him, but there's really few other plausible reasons for them to rebuff him.

[dewsgirl]

31. Yikes, hadn't thought of that.😳

[malaise]

6. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Scream!

[sarge43]

7. Damn it all.

Full recovery, Captain.

[sarcasmo]

8. Captain Crozier saved many lives with that letter.

[crickets]

9. This is terrible.

Also, who leaked that letter? Classified email server or not, I am so tired of hearing Capt Crozier continually being blamed for a leak he did not commit.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Someone at DOD may have leaked it.

[Historic NY]

19. someone who had an axe to grind?

If this went to command on an email only.

[lunatica]

24. Probably leaked by someone very concerned with the pandemic

being spread and killing 5 thousand sailors on a ship with nuclear weapons. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

[MosheFeingold]

27. The leak was the problem

Not the letter.

Like it or not in the military, you follow your chain of command. Leaking a letter like this is bad for a number of reasons, most notably it tells the Chinese and the Russians and the Norks that a huge part of our military deterrent is out of commission for a long while.

It was probably a clerk or someone on the bait who leaked it — but the captain is responsible for their actions.

Be great for the captain if it turns out someone at the pentagon leaked it.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I wish him a full and speedy recovery.

[rockfordfile]

11. I would say everybody on that ship has it. Just like on the cruise ships

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[PCIntern]

12. WHAT!!! They haven't keelhauled him yet?

I can’t believe it. They need to get up to speed.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Aarrrrrrrgh - walk the plank!!!!!!!

[keithbvadu2]

23. Plank

[treestar]

13. Damn, I hope he gets through it OK

And the sailors on the ship who have it, too.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. ...

[PaulRevere08]

16. I wonder how many times he tried to follow procedures and was rebuffed? There

had to be a reason why he took the steps he did. Something tells me a rat with a bad comb-over is involved.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. "a rat with a bad comb-over is involved."

or a fat-ass wearing a military hat with a half-ton of eagle-shit on the brim!

[iluvtennis]

20. + 1. nt

[rustysgurl]

21. Damnit ...

... why can't "he who shall remain nameless" get it?

[SunSeeker]

22. ...

[Paladin]

25. Fuck. And that bag of pus trump will probably live to be 106.

When we've got a decent, for-real president again, I think there ought to be a USS Crozier aircraft carrier.

[JDC]

26. I almost wonder if he tested positive before his dismissal

These clowns see his getting sick and his announcing others were sick as weakness.

[The Magistrate]

29. Best Of Luck To Him, Sir

A superior officer.

[mgardener]

30. Thomas Modly

Acting Sec of Navy

IS A MORAL COWARD.

[BeckyDem]

32. Horrible. Everyone is hoping you make a full recovery.

[SheltieLover]

33. NOOOOO!

I hope he recovers fully runs for office as a Dem & TELLS ALL!

[MyOwnPeace]

34. Better yet.......

Joe wins in November, promotes Captain Crozier and then returns him to command the TR!

But then again, maybe he doesn't want to go back to that mess, and if that's the case, RUN as a DEM and TELL ALL!!!

[uponit7771]

35. "unnecessary alarm" ... Modly will eat this words later on. This was not good press