Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of his command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after a highly critical letter he wrote to his superiors went public
U.S. Navy Captain Brett E. Crozier, the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, was relieved of his command on Friday after he complained in a letter about the Navy's response to a shipboard outbreak of coronavirus.The U.S. Navy captain who wrote an anguished and widely publicized letter this week to his superiors about a coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier he commanded has now been relieved of that command.Capt.
"We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Crozier concluded in his missive."If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors." The letter did appear to spur efforts to move thousands of crew members ashore. Modly said Thursday that 2,700 of the 4,865 sailors aboard the Roosevelt would be disembarking this week. A skeleton crew would remain aboard to maintain the nuclear-powered vessel.
On Friday, Modly said 114 sailors on the carrier have tested positive for coronavirus and that the number would go up,"maybe in the hundreds."
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