'Best captain we ever had' -- Watch the crew of USS Roosevelt give their fired skipper a triumphant s
The crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt gave the aircraft carrier's ousted skipper a loving farewell on Friday, assembling in the hundreds in the ship's hangar bay and cheering “Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!” as the officer walked down the gangway to a car waiting pierside.
In one video, Crozier is seen stepping off his ship for the last time as CO and turning to give his still-cheering crew a wave before walking away.
“Now that’s how you send out one of the greatest captains we ever had!” said one sailor in a Facebook video first reported by Stars & Stripes. “The [greatest of all time], the man for the people.”
Videos of the send-off, which emerged on Facebook and Twitter Friday morning, come shortly after Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of command by Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly over a leaked memo in which the captain urged his superiors to let him evacuate the ship as novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spread through its crew.
“Sailors do not need to die,” Crozier wrote in the memo. “If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our sailors.”
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