Captain of virus-struck aircraft carrier removed for 'mishandling communications'

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Captain Brett Crozier was wrong to distribute to a wide range of people copies of an emotional, four-page letter describing the threat of the outbreak to the ship’s nearly 5,000 sailors, allowing it to be leaked earlier this week to US media before top defense officials saw it.

“I have no doubt in my mind that Captain Crozier did what he thought was in the best interests of the safety and well-being of his crew,” said Modly.In addition to frightening families of the sailors, he said, “it raised concerns about the operational capabilities and operational security of that ship that could have emboldened our adversaries to seek advantage.”

“The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating,” he wrote. “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,” he pleaded. The letter “undermined the chain of command who had been moving and adjusting as rapidly as possible to get him the help he needed,” Modly said.

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