Democratic senator rips Navy head's 'completely inappropriate' speech on ousted carrier captain [View all]
Source: the hill
By Rebecca Kheel - 04/06/20 01:52 PM EDT
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) blasted Thomas Modly on Monday after the acting Navy secretary called an ousted aircraft carrier captain “too naive or too stupid” to command the ship.
“Based on the transcript I’ve read, Secretary Modly’s comments were completely inappropriate and beneath the office of the secretary of the Navy,” Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
At issue is a speech Modly gave to sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt addressing his decision to relieve Capt. Brett Crozier after a letter Crozier wrote pleading for help with a coronavirus outbreak on the carrier leaked in the media.
In the speech, of which a transcript and audio leaked in the media Monday, Modly said that if Crozier didn’t think the letter would leak, he was “too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this.”.........................
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/491375-democratic-senator-rips-navy-heads-completely-inappropriate-speech-on-ousted
In this alleged transcript (from a recording made by Sailors on board the Roosevelt), the Secretary of the Navy called the recently fired Captain Crozier “stupid” over the ship’s 1MC (speaker system) and others reported Modly cursed at the crew multiple times, using the “F word.”
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