The Navy Is Blaming the Captain It Fired for Accurate COVID-19 Warning

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Navy Capt. Brett Crozier has been vindicated after warning of a dire coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt—just not by the Navy, which on Friday announced that it will not reverse Crozier’s firing for the infraction of trying to save his sailors’ lives.

Instead, the Navy leadership implied that Crozier was responsible for the outbreak that he loudly warned he needed urgent help from the Navy to redress.

“If Capt. Crozier was still in command today, I would be relieving him,” the chief of naval operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, said on Friday. Less than two months ago, Gilday recommended reinstating Crozier.

A final report into Crozier’s firing, released Friday, accused the Roosevelt commander and his team of being “biased by groupthink, emotion and a loss of perspective as to the real risk at hand”—as well as an insufficient appreciation of how the fleet commander was working tirelessly to aid evacuation from the ship, something Crozier had challenged.

The report, written by Gilday’s second in command, Adm. Robert Burke, levied the extraordinary claim that Crozier’s team “took little to no action within their own span of control to improve the crew’s safety.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-blaming-captain-fired-accurate-204805946.html

Sounds like victim blaming to me.

[matt819]

1. And if Capt Crozier said nothing

He’d have been blamed for the outbreak and failing to stop it. This is the public blaming and shaming regime. Republican cancel culture.

[sop]

2. Sounds like they're talking about Trump.

[soryang]

3. This is the crux of it here:

For all the Navy’s investigations and re-investigations, Gilday also conceded that the Navy still does not know how the novel coronavirus made it to the ship. He said it’s “likely” to have happened during an earlier port visit to Vietnam, though Gilday defended the port visit and said none of the officers responsible for that decision—all of whom, unlike Crozier, are admirals—would face reprimand.

the administration and the admirals risked the health of the entire crew and the ship's readiness for a political purpose, the port visit to Vietnam, where sailors went ashore for days while the pandemic spread on mainland Asia. Instead of letting it go, they needed a scapegoat. I recall the Paccom admiral saying it was a "well informed decision." This whole thing is a reminder of the old navy saying that, "shit rolls downhill."

[soothsayer]

4. Testing causes the virus. An alarm causes harm.

When did we go through the looking glass?

[empedocles]

5. Reported as a straight, unchallenged finding, on NBC News