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Listen to Sailors Shout Profanities at Acting Navy Sec. After He Calls Their Captain ‘Stupid and Naive’

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As Andrea and Nicole reported this morning, Defense Secretary Mike Esper sent “Acting” Navy Secretary Thomas Modly out to Guam to speak to the men and women of the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt about why he fired their Captain, Captain Brett Crozier.

As you are aware, Captain Crozier sent a letter begging for help to keep his crew of increasingly coronavirus-positive sailors, safe. That letter leaked (perhaps it was intended to leak, to get the attention needed), and resulted in Crozier’s firing.

Modly assembled a crew still mourning the loss of its leader, its captain, and promptly called Captain Crozier “stupid” and “naive,” responses can be heard in the background, “What the fuck?” as well as a lot of angry yelling.

In other words, whatever Modly set out to do in going out to address the sailors and aviators unless it was to enrage the crew, he failed – and deserves to be fired far more so than Captain Crozier, who – if he erred- did so in attempting to protect his crew.

 

The response on Twitter was brutal:

And not just from McCaffrey:

Yes, Modly must now resign as his remarks served no purpose whatsoever. Again, Crozier’s mistake – if one must call it that – was made in an attempt to protect the lives of his sailors, Modly’s was to deliver a message from Trump, one of rage, and an insult to the sailors.

I think McCaffrey is about as angry as I have ever heard him. One doesn’t rise to that level of the military without caring for the people serving under you. We certainly saw where the loyalties laid when Captain Crozier left the carrier, and we’re hearing that same group’s response today.

Perhaps it is best to end this with the roar that Crozier heard. Oh, and while you watch this man who tried to protect his crew, know that he is taking this abuse while quarantining himself for coronavirus.

Brings tears to my eyes, still. One man, alone – he did his best, right or wrong.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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