Report: Fired Commander of Aircraft Carrier
Captain Crozier Tested Positive for Coronavirus
Breitbart 2020 Election,
by
Kristina Wong
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/5/2020 2:41:06 PM
The ex-commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, tested positive for coronavirus before he was removed from command, according to a report.Crozier began exhibiting symptoms before he was removed from the ship on Thursday, the New York Times reported on Sunday morning, citing two of Crozier’s close friends.Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Crozier on Thursday, after a memo he wrote urging Navy leaders to get sailors off the ship faster in Guam due to a coronavirus outbreak leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle, Crozier’s hometown paper.Modly said Crozier was not fired for raising concerns, but for emailing the memo over an unsecured and unclassified system
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/5/2020 2:49:20 PM (No. 369576)
Well it does not look like that Captain could carry out his duties as Commanding Officer of a deployed aircraft carrier since he tested positive for the corona virus and would have to be evacuated to carry out a two week quarantine during which time most of the crew of the ship is being removed to quarters ashore.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snapper451 4/5/2020 2:50:20 PM (No. 369577)
It is as simple as that. He emailed from a nuclear aircraft carrier, on an unsecured network, indicating that his ship was in distress. No matter how loved he was by his crew, he deserved to be removed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
berthabutt 4/5/2020 2:54:38 PM (No. 369587)
Testing positive doesn't mean jack to his state of health! Why does media not make that distinction? They are spinning every positive test into a death sentence while waving off the hundreds of thousands of those who have had it & recovered are ready to return to work.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/5/2020 2:55:24 PM (No. 369589)
reply 2, no, it’s all about feelings, whoa, whoa feelings!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 4/5/2020 3:44:26 PM (No. 369644)
Sure he does. This is a media campaign to elicit sympathy and nothing more. Disregard....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
comstock 4/5/2020 3:46:45 PM (No. 369646)
Most of the media pundits reporting on this issue are looking at it through the lens of a liberal humanitarian, not through the lens of anyone who ever served in the military. While I sympathize with the plight of Captain Crozier and his crew, he was wrong to email his letter over an unsecured and unclassified system, allowing it to be leaked.
The path to the command of an aircraft carrier is usually through the aviation ranks: pilot, squadron leader, wing commander, then a deep water command of some kind of a support ship or maybe XO of an aircraft carrier. He should have learned the chain of command after going through all of that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/5/2020 3:52:38 PM (No. 369657)
He sent at cc’s of his emailed memo to at least 20 entities - including the media - over an unsecured, unclassified system. At the same time he failed to inform his immediate superior, an admiral who was on the ship in quarters near Crozier’s.
Those emailed cc’s represented what is known in corporate business as a “cockroach memo”. One sent with many copies so that it gets widespread notice by other than its intended recipient.
Weak. And dangerous considering the ship he commanded.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/5/2020 3:58:15 PM (No. 369666)
Biden would make some crazy Commander in Chief if he would keep a guy like that.
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Awwww... Let me get my fiddle.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
edgar 4/5/2020 4:25:07 PM (No. 369691)
It's okay when Hillary does it or Senate Intel Committee analysts do it. Welcome to the world of double standards Captain.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/5/2020 5:28:25 PM (No. 369754)
CAPT Crozier is/was probably a fine Naval Officer, until this insane lapse of command judgment on his part.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 4/5/2020 5:59:59 PM (No. 369787)
I was wondering why he was removed. Reporting that there were personnel on the ship had the coronavirus doesn't seem to be a reason to remove anyone from command. The media has only reported that he was removed, but they never went into any detail as to the reason why.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EQKimball 4/5/2020 6:06:44 PM (No. 369795)
#12 The Secretary of the Navy issued a statement stating the reasons, chief among them going outside the chain of command to release his letter to third parties. That said, under the circumstances the Navy could have called him to Washington for consultation and left the official change of command to a time after the crisis had passed and the story was no longer in the headlines.
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Keelhaul him!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
slsusnr 4/5/2020 8:37:24 PM (No. 369922)
This will seem like trivia, but why do so many refer to the commanding officer of a ship as the "commander?" Ships have CAPTAINS. There. Got that rock out of my shoe.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kerryman 4/6/2020 12:49:17 AM (No. 370020)
I think everybody is avoiding his responsibility as a Captain of a CVN. I believe we only have ten. Of those about half are not deployed. Three are deployed in Westpac. Two proximate tp The Persian Gulf for Afghanistan and potential trouble in Iraq. The Roosevelt seemed to be focusing on the South China Sea. There is no room for this Captain’s cavalier behavior. I expect he has an Admiral on board commanding the Task Force There May be another story about him being passed over for a Flag. We’ll see. At any rate, he deserved to be relieved.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2020 1:12:26 AM (No. 370037)
Perhaps he found out he had it and freaked out?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/6/2020 2:17:46 AM (No. 370062)
Captain Crozier is a yellowbelly that deserves a white feather and a Navy court martial. By announcing to the world that the Roosevelt nuclear aircraft carrier was out of service he opened a huge gap in our defenses. Loose lips sink ships, you coward! He needs to be demoted and shamed publicly. Only 2 years ago we had two destroyers collided with cargo ships because their crews did not know how to navigate the Malacca Straights. Then the Secretary of the Navy had to be fired in disgrace for countermanding the reinstatement of Eddie Gallagher pardoned by President Trump. The US Navy is in shambles and in need of an entirely new set of flag officers. Shame, shame.
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