A highly critical letter from Capt. Brett Crozier that was leaked to the media cost him his command of the coronavirus-infected USS Roosevelt. Now the man who fired him says he's not being discharged.
showing his exit from the Roosevelt is accompanied by the message"the whole ship came out to say goodbye to Captain Crozier," followed by"#crozierforpresident."
"Donald Trump's Acting Navy Secretary shot the messenger — a commanding officer who was faithful to both his national security mission and his duty to care for his sailors, and who rightly focused attention on a broader concern about how to maintain military readiness during this pandemic," Biden said in a"And the Navy sent a chilling message to the rest of the fleet about speaking truth to power," he said.
"Captain Crozier was justifiably concerned about the health and safety of his crew, but he did not handle the immense pressure appropriately," the committee members write."However, relieving him of his command is an overreaction." In addition to the approximately 1,000 crew members of the Roosevelt who disembarked at a U.S. naval base in Guam earlier this week, another 2,700 are expected to have left the ship by this weekend to be quarantined in local hotels.that the first 180 of those sailors had been transferred to an oceanside hotel and within 24 hours up to another 500 more would follow.
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