Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly defended his decision to fire the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in remarks Monday to the aircraft carrier’s crew, saying Capt. Brett Crozier erred by writing and distributing a memo about a coronavirus outbreak and urging sailors to “do your jobs.”
Mr. Modly delivered the remarks over the public-address system of the vessel, which is docked in Guam as crew members undergo a quarantine because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. As of Monday, 173 of the approximately 5,000 members...
Asshole!
mcm_ct Good man.
Whose the ass now?
History will not judge this guy well at all.
After a statement like that is this high ranking Navy officer fit for purpose?
Hair plugs?
He will never be respected like the Captain that he fired
If you want to talk about stupid, this idiot criticized the captain for a leaked memo and his audio + transcript was also leaked. Now who's really the dummy? Definitely the one who had the heads up but didn't know how to keep it in house. What's going on with our military?
Regardless of his incompetence and failure to be a leader, this Modly has a serious hair problem. And this needs to be said over the loudspeaker too! Any sailor in his thinning situation would shave that shit off!
Hmmmmm Navy
Now Trump should fire Modly. I wouldn’t be surprised, if Modly was the person, that leaked the letter, so he could fire the Captain. I know you can’t judge a book by the cover, but Modly is a bureaucrat, desperate for attention, like most of them are.
SuGrace7 Get that jerk fired immediately!!!!
Every time I hear a another report about what he said, it just makes him sound even more of a wack job. Every report includes something new.
Did he not see Denzel Washington movie 'true story'
wow
I am actually glad my father, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, is dead and not having to watch this.
Coward
Wow! Omg!
All bout the chain of command. The former commander was right down the passageway from the admiral & failed to address his covid-19 concern through him? Last time he will go over a superiors head...
Nice to know the military has the soldiers best interest at heart as usual 🙄
and 'The Silence of the Republican Party' continues while Hannibal Trump holds his daily rant.
Wow, this is necessary?
The quickest way to bring down the morale.
What an ass, and what terrible hair implants.
The TrumpVirus is trying to silence him because if the coronavirus came from China, it shouldn’t be onboard a US aircraft carrier that has been out at sea since January. COVID19 Whistleblower TrumpVirusCoverup
Sometimes wars start from within. GOD HELP US.
Wow. Trunpanzees. All rotten.
There was no need for him to do this. The new Commander could have.
I suppose at some time, at some level, it seemed like a good idea. Not sure how but apparently so.
what ship did he serve on?
Yep... looks like the Navy Sec and his assistant have some splaining to do. Both should be fired.
This address by the Acting Sec. of the Navy to the Roosevelt crew goes against 100 years of military tradition and good order...he is a civilian and should not have addressed active duty officers and enlisted sailors in this manner. Where was the Chain of Command on this one?
It is a right decision to fire the captain.
part of the sycophantic bunch that make the country sink in two bit lies
Notice how he did it over the comm system. Had he been in front of them he would have left without his teeth.
'upbraids' really? That's the term you go with? JFC!
If this is the best language that he could muster, I'd say it's the Navy Secretary who needs to keep his shit together! He's obviously unglued!
That’s what happened when you’re in the military
No truer words ever spoken!
From what I’ve read so far it seems the crew of one the most lethal vessels in the Navy had more panic on it than the Carnival cruse ship off the coast of Japan. Sec def made the correct call.
The Captain wasn't 'fired'. He was relieved of command and re- assigned. Get the story right.
Sounds like he ALSO upbraided the sailors themselves also (I.e. “keep their shit together”). What an absolute bum the ACTING Navy Secretary is.
Hope the crew will know how to vote in November!
Stupid or naive? 😂 DumpTrump2020 StopAiringTrumpNow
Order and discipline! Never give up the ship!
How can anyone respect this man?
Well said. The panic being incited by the FakeNewsMedia has taken its toll. But Navy personnel should no better than to let it panic them.
Fire this guy. No leadership at all. SemperFi
Leadership 101
This guy needs to resign now. What a mess. The U.S sailors know they were screwed over.
This is the SecNavy Trump hired after firing the former SecNavy Richard Spencer in December after he wrote an op-ed criticizing the President's handling of the Eddie Gallagher case. Sounds like the new SecNavy really knows how to manage sailors' morale.
Mean
Is SECNAV even in the chain of command? CMCRET
My stars. Such language. I'm sure no one in the Navy has ever heard such before. clutches pearls 🙄
A--hole if you ask most sailors!!
to be played by bradleywhitford in the movie
Perspective: A commander of a carrier group made public to our enemies that a carrier group was out of commission?
mcm_ct Did he ever serve?
mcm_ct Fire this scumbag.
Time for Moldy to resign. His remarks about CrozierIsAHero were uncalled for and snarkish.
Ahh..So much respect and love for our troops.
That sounds like some down home inspirational horse shit.
If the could, they should go on strike. Which they can't do of course. They must have options against this idiot.
Ahhhh the military, I love their politically incorrect language. Miss it
The navy has a real “leadership” problem
Personality found under a rock.
What a charming motivational man he is........not 👍👏🏻
Guess the crew showed him up and he didn’t like it. Good for the crew.
I like this.
Who Said It Best
Aren't, like 3000 people off the ship?
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