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Showing Original Post only (View all)Lawmakers call for removal of Navy Secretary over USS Roosevelt debacle [View all]
Lawmakers call for removal of Navy Secretary over USS Roosevelt debacleMultiple lawmakers called for Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to resign or be fired after a massive backlash to Modlys decision to relieve Capt. Brett Crozier, commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, after the latter urged his superiors to evacuate the ship for fear of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading throughout his crew.
Lawmakers levied their calls against Modly on Monday after Task & Purpose published leaked audio of the service's top civilian using a speech to Roosevelt sailors regarding Crozier's departure to lash out at the captain over the leak of his now-infamous letter to his superiors. [snip]
The leaked audio and transcript of speech prompted lawmakers, already on edge over the abrupt removal of Crozier from the helm of the Roosevelt, to demand Modly resign or be removed from his position by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. [more]
Lawmakers levied their calls against Modly on Monday after Task & Purpose published leaked audio of the service's top civilian using a speech to Roosevelt sailors regarding Crozier's departure to lash out at the captain over the leak of his now-infamous letter to his superiors. [snip]
The leaked audio and transcript of speech prompted lawmakers, already on edge over the abrupt removal of Crozier from the helm of the Roosevelt, to demand Modly resign or be removed from his position by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. [more]
All Democrats, naturally.
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crickets
Apr 2020
OP
There is a process to discipline anyone who beaks the rules in the Navy, Captains included
Chainfire
Apr 2020
#8
Actually, I *do* have a partly analogous story, re: the brute force response of some top brass.
UTUSN
Apr 2020
#13
I'm not through. You might be moved when I am. I have to Post because sometimes the text disappears
UTUSN
Apr 2020
#17
Waiting with bated breath for the next part. What you have written so far has been an
erronis
Apr 2020
#36
Thanks, but guess what. A Vietnam vet of the Army persuasion, when I told him this story,
UTUSN
Apr 2020
#41
So the skipper sided with the crew? ZUMWALT was fairly popular, let beards be grown (all I can think
UTUSN
Apr 2020
#68
Yea, the personal lifestyle loosening of the rules, but I don't know what big systemic things he did
UTUSN
Apr 2020
#72
You can use any of the transcript comments or see the 250,000 signatures over at Change.Org
ffr
Apr 2020
#9
WTF. All these kiss ass enablers are there for 1 thing. To destroy the agency they are representing
Evolve Dammit
Apr 2020
#11
You're welcome! I had the page saved because I wanted to post it - I was glad you gave me
scarletwoman
Apr 2020
#26
I believe that audio file has been successfully disseminated quite widely already,
scarletwoman
Apr 2020
#67
"All Democrats, naturally." Well the Republicans take their marching orders from Russia these days
cstanleytech
Apr 2020
#21
Because they do not have Putins approval yet to come out against this action but just as soon as
cstanleytech
Apr 2020
#40
This is just part of appointing political commissars to oversea federal agencies and military
erronis
Apr 2020
#38
Other aspect of this I haven't seen mentioned: The combat readiness of the Roosevelt
sarge43
Apr 2020
#43
Blah, blah, blah. They can't even get people to adhere to a legally issued subpoena.
Firestorm49
Apr 2020
#63