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2020-04-08 Home Front: Politix
Acting Navy Secretary Resigns after Suggesting Ousted Captain Was ‘Stupid’
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Posted by Fred 2020-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 https://twitter.com/CloseDanger/status/1247784817325772802?s=20

" In an email interchange with Secretary Modly’s chief of staff Bob Love that day, though, Mr. Love asked Crozier what he needed: Love detected “no alarm bells, no hair on fire,” Secretary Modly relayed to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. Captain Crozier merely answered “just speed,” when pressed for specific critical needs, and to “get people off the ship as fast as we could.” Following orders from Mr. Modly, Love gave Crozier the acting secretary’s personal cellphone number and told him to call 24/7 if he needed anything more.
Yet the next day, Monday, March 30, an exasperated and deeply-worried Crozier sent his 4-page letter to approximately 20 recipients via unsecured email, bypassing the carrier strike group commander, Rear Admiral Stuart Baker, berthed just 15 feet down his"
Posted by newc 2020-04-08 03:20||   2020-04-08 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Lessons on Leadership From the USS Theodore Roosevelt
Posted by newc 2020-04-08 05:56||   2020-04-08 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Modly did the right thing and that should have been the end of it. Clearly, the only reason this episode is being kept alive in the MSM is because they hope it will make Trump look bad.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-08 12:22||   2020-04-08 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ^He shouldn't have flown to the carrier and give speeches to sailors. That's that chain of command is for.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-08 12:25||   2020-04-08 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The captain was stupid. He gave shore leave in an Asian port during a pandemic that started in China!
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-08 16:44||   2020-04-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

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