Trust and confidence
The Navy announced it has relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Capt. Brett Crozier, who commands the Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier with a crew of nearly 5,000, was relieved of his command on Thursday, but he will keep his rank and remain in the Navy.
Crozier raised the alarm earlier this week that sailors on the ship need to be quarantined to stop the spread of the virus. His plea for assistance quickly made headlines.
And we can’t have people stopping the spread of the virus, so get him out of that command.
The move was announced in a briefing by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly Thursday evening. The official reason for Crozier’s relief of duty is a loss of trust and confidence, according to the officials who spoke to NBC News
I have zero trust and confidence in the people who did this.
I see there are a lot of commentators who are saying that the Navy have implied the Captain leaked his letter to the press, when the Navy was already responding to his concerns. Those commentators have made it quite clear they do not believe that this was the Captains first letter up the chain of command by a long shot and it’s also not clear from the record that the Navy was taking action.