Fired captain sent memo to fewer people than former Navy head alleged: report

[LiberalArkie]

An email containing a now-famous memo from the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier was sent to fewer people than the Navy said it was when officials justified firing him, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The email from Capt. Brett Crozier was sent to three admirals and copied to seven other captains, according to a copy obtained by the Post, contradicting former acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly's assertion it was sent to "20 or 30" people.

Attached to the email was the letter Crozier wrote pleading for help with a coronavirus outbreak aboard the Roosevelt. The letter has now been widely reported, but the email it was attached to had not been released before the Post's report.

In the email, Crozier called the recipients "incredible leaders" who he would "gladly ... follow into battle whenever need."

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/493192-fired-captain-sent-memo-to-fewer-people-than-former-navy-head-alleged-report?amp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/how-an-outbreak-on-the-uss-roosevelt-became-a-defining-moment-for-the-us-military/2020/04/16/2735f85c-7f24-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html

[uponit7771]

1. Figured Modly lied, everyone around Benedict Donald is nut case

[gibraltar72]

2. Only one thing to do. Fire them all. Who needs officers?

[MFGsunny]

3. What a lyin' POS good ol' Modly turns out to be indeed. Shame on him. n/t

[underpants]

5. Should have known "20 or 30", no one counted the names ?

Wow that passed right over me.

[crickets]

6. The comments to the WaPo article are eye-opening.

Support for Crozier is universal, and some of the speculation as to why he sent the messages to 'fellow aviators' rather than chain of command is that he was attempting to punch through the fog of politics. Those who serve surely would have a better read on this. The comments section is long, but here's a slice, with names left out:

1 hour ago
Why didn't Cozier do the P4 thing the article mentions? There must be more to the story.
Likethumb_up

1 hour ago
The more I think about it, the more I think he was handing out "plausible deniability" awards to people clisest to Trump.
Likethumb_up1

57 minutes ago
He may have. You're right, we don't have the whole story. Hopefully, the investigation will get some answers. Remember, his main memo was addressed to "My Fellow Aviators" not to his chain of command. That was more of a personal communications. There is definitely more to this.
Likethumb_up1

Interesting link within:

Navy Believes Delivery Flights, Not Vietnam Port Stop, Brought Virus to Carrier

Navy officials say they've been unable to make a definitive link between hundreds of coronavirus cases on an aircraft carrier and a controversial port call in Vietnam, leading them to consider the possibility that pilots delivering goods to the ship carried it aboard.

Carrier onboard deliveries, known as CODs, could be to blame for the ongoing health crisis onboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt, a Navy official told Military.com. The flights in question could have originated in the Philippines or Japan as the carrier operated in the Asia-Pacific region, the official said. [snip]

The guided-missile cruiser Bunker Hill, which stopped in Vietnam with the Roosevelt, hasn't reported any COVID-19 cases, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said this week.

Vasquez said the crews got a brief from medical personnel on coronavirus prevention. And when two British people tested positive for the illness at a hotel that dozens of sailors had visited, those personnel were tested for COVID-19 and placed into quarantine for 14 days, he said.

None of those personnel were among the first three Roosevelt crew members to test positive for COVID-19, Vasquez added.

Normal operating procedures, not the diplomatic stop in Vietnam, are now thought to be the likely source of infection. Procedures have been changed since to block any personnel cross contact and to allow for the virus to die off any possibly infected shipments.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. There will be SO much to investigate........

and to think that IQ45 claimed his place in DC by wanting to "drain the swamp?"