Navy fires aircraft carrier captain who raised alarm about virus outbreak

, the Navy announced on Thursday.

Capt. Brett Crozier wrote a letter Navy leaders Monday pleading for additional help to combat the outbreak, which has sickened roughly 100 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. The letter was leaked to the media.In the letter, Crozier urged "decisive action" to remove the "majority of personnel" from the carrier.

“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Crozier wrote. "If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our sailors.” Modly faulted Crozier for "not working with the chain of command" when writing the letter and by not raising the issue with Modly directly. He also said the Navy was already addressing Crozier's concerns by the time the letter was written. "He sent it out pretty broadly," Modly said, but stopped short of accusing Crozier of leaking the letter.

“I could reach no other conclusion that Capt. Crozier had allowed the complexity of his challenge with the Covid breakout on the ship to overwhelm his ability to act professionally when acting professionally was what was needed at the most at the time," Modly said.

Yeah, firestorm is so much worse that the deaths of yet untold soldiers. What a piece of garbage.

I don’t agree with Thomas Modly. The Captain did the right thing by writing the letter.

Thomas Modly should have this disgrace attached to his name forever

A Trump administration move. A real shame. All over the Truth and concern raised by a commander about his crew in a darn letter.

ModerateVoters Capt. Brett Crozier. That’s his name. Burn it into your brain. Right next to LtCol Alexander Vindman. Quality officers are being scapegoated and slandered by this administration. History will vindicate both men.

But of course......how dare he speak the truth in this term of the most transparent president ever in history......

Trump administration act like Chinese dictatorship...

Is that how US gov treated whistleblower?

Why, he saved lives. He should get a medal.

Shooting the messenger is not the way to address the problem.

MAGAVirus.

NastyOldWomyn Just because he made them look bad.

democracy who?

Retaliation....sounds like China!

Another crime committed by a corrupt regime

The Captain allowed his 4000 person crew to go ashore in Danang, Vietnam, a country now on lockdown because of the Corona virus! Negligence?

another reason to vote out the current administration!

What disgraceful piece of crap this guy is.

WTF How is this right?

You’re irresponsible and a complete idiot during this time of crisis. Do us all a good deed and resign your position effective immediately

We live in a world where telling the truth and protecting others is met with skepticism and then complete ruin. Nope. Not going to have that. KEEP SPEAKING THE TRUTH.

Hey realDonaldTrump if you can pardon a soldier who kills, then you can save Captain Brett Crozier’s job who is trying to save his soldiers.

Sad.

elid955 The next President has a lot of repairing and reversing to do in his first 100 days in office...

They are so fucking petty

Toxic Administration you aren't even allowed to express or think for yourself... I know how it feels!!!!

Fire Modly

Captain Brett Crozier: Biden's Secretary of the Navy!

' Acting ' , means incompetent.

Shame shame shame

Any 'acting' official should not have the power to do so

VP GOP ScienceMatters AllLivesMatter GOP and Trump are Incompetent ViralKindness NotDying4WallStreet NotDyingForWallStreet FreeSpeachDrFauci ShelterInPlaceUSA WhiteHouseHstry

And this how tin pot dictators and authoritarian regimes operate.

A sick bustard

Military commanders should know that you don't issue press releases announcing vulnerabilities on a warship. He knew this. He's neither a hero nor a martyr.

Secretary Thomas should be the one to be fired!

Rightfully So

This is the most disgusting thing in a long line of disgusting things to have happened this month. And it's only April 2nd.

Caring is a crime

He should have been promoted!

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