Coronavirus: Acting Navy secretary offers to resign over handling of carrier crisis
WASHINGTON - Thomas Modly, the acting Navy secretary, resigned on Tuesday after his bungled response to an outbreak of the novel coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt engulfed the Navy in a public relations disaster, Defence Department officials said.
The Navy has announced more than 170 coronavirus cases aboard the Roosevelt since the outbreak started in late March, after the ship had docked in Da Nang, Vietnam. The firing sent shock waves through the crew, which was only exacerbated on Monday when Modly flew to Guam, where the Roosevelt is now docked, and said Crozier was"too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this.
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