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In reply to the discussion: Lawmakers call for removal of Navy Secretary over USS Roosevelt debacle [View all]Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)In all my years in the NAVY, I NEVER heard such an unprofessional, inappropriate (replete with vulgarities, too) and insulting speech to any crew. It was little more than self-serving perfidy.
He insulted every Sailor on that ship and displayed total disregard for NAVY etiquette. And I wonder if it even entered his hair-plugged head the possible damage to morale on the Teddy Rose at a time of turmoil and governmental chaos. Sailors are looking for leadership right now and they're getting this snizzwad.
In the end, it is Captain Brett Crozier who emerges as the best the NAVY has to offer. I'd be honored to have served with such a good man, a CO who placed the health and safety of his crew above politics. Will it cost him that star he was headed towards ? Possibly, but he will always he hailed as a hero, and he will be remembered for the lives he saved.
He said it best, "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die." That crew deserved the best health care available, not to be abandoned by this clusterfuck of an administration.
Sadly, it has been reported that he, too, is infected with COVID-19.