Three weeks after Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of his command of a coronavirus-infected aircraft carrier by a Navy official who has since resigned, top Navy brass want him back on his ship.
Adm. Michael Gilday, who is the Navy's highest-ranking officer, is reported by the Associated Press to have met with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday and with Defense Secretary Mark Esper Friday to recommend the fired captain's reinstatement.
The AP quotes Esper's spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, as saying before that meeting that Esper"is generally inclined to support Navy leadership in their decision" regarding Crozier. But Esper is also reported to have asked for a delay in any public announcement while he weighs Crozier's fate.
"The Secretary of Defense needs to reinstate Captain Brett Crozier as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt," Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said in a statement emailed to NPR."While Captain Crozier's actions at the outset of the health crisis aboard the TR were drastic and imperfect, it is clear he only took such steps to protect his crew.
"Modly's subsequent decision to board the U.S.S. Roosevelt and deliver a petty, obscenity-laced speech attacking Captain Crozier while the crew of the Roosevelt dealt with the COVID-19 outbreak should seriously call into question Modly's decision making ability in general," Smith wrote,"and makes it all the more clear that his decision to relieve Captain Crozier was completely wrong.
The sidelined captain himself tested positive for coronavirus after leaving the Roosevelt and has been kept in isolation in distinguished visitors quarters at a naval base in Guam, where the aircraft carrier is docked,
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