The acting Navy secretary addressed the crew of USS Theodore Roosevelt to defend his decision to fire the aircraft carrier’s commander, telling the sailors over loudspeakers to “keep their shit together” and “do your jobs”
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly defended his decision to fire the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in remarks Monday to the aircraft carrier’s crew, saying Capt. Brett Crozier erred by writing and distributing a memo about a coronavirus outbreak and urging sailors to “do your jobs.”
Mr. Modly delivered the remarks over the public-address system of the vessel, which is docked in Guam as crew members undergo a quarantine because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. As of Monday, 173 of the approximately 5,000 members...
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