Sigh:
The Navy is expected to announce it has fired the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, according to two U.S. officials.
Capt. Brett Crozier, who captains the Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier with a crew of nearly 5,000 people will be relieved of his command, but keep his rank and remain in the Navy.Crozier raised the alarm earlier this week that sailors on the ship need to be quarantined to stop the spread of the virus. His plea for assistance quickly made headlines.
Crozier sent a letter to the Navy on Monday begging for help addressing the coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship, which was forced to dock in Guam last week. The ship leadership began testing everyone on board. By Wednesday, there were 93 positive test results and more than 1,000 people had departed the ship into isolation on Guam. In total, 2,700 people are expected to disembark the ship this week, with a smaller crew remaining to maintain the ship.
The firing is expected to be announced in a briefing by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly Thursday evening. The official reason for Crozier’s relief of duty is a loss of trust and confidence, according to the officials who spoke to NBC News.
I will be shocked if we don’t learn that this came from the White House. If it didn’t it almost surely came from a toady at the Pentagon who felt this officer was being “political” by begging to save his crew.
If only he were a war criminal who tortured prisoners and killed innocent civilians, Trump would raise heaven and earth to protect him and we’d certainly have Fox News’ Pete Hegseth championing him on Fox and Friends.
It’s only the sadistic sociopathic “warfighters” they care about. Officers who care about the men and women under their command are nothing but a bunch of lily-livered snowflakes, I guess.
Update: Trump said at his rally today that he doesn’t agree with this decision. Ok. Maybe he’d like to intervene then as he did with Gallagher?
Update II: After seeing the comment, it sounds like Trump doesn’t think he is being punished, not that he doesn’t agree with the decision: