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Captain Crozier<\/em><\/p>\n Back-burnered until he quietly retires. Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n BY JOSEPH TREVITHICKA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The U.S. Navy has announced it will conduct a broader investigation into circumstances regarding a major outbreak<\/a> of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus among the crew of the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>. In doing so, the service has at least delayed implementation of a key recommendation from a preliminary review, that Captain Brett Crozier, the carrier’s former commanding officer, who was sacked<\/a> over a letter warning<\/a> about the serious risks the virus posed to his sailors, be given back<\/a> command of that ship. This all comes at the Navy says that it is beginning to move previously quarantined personnel back onto Theodore Roosevelt as preparations begin to get it back out to sea after weeks of being docked in Guam.<\/p>\n Politico<\/a> was first to report that Acting Secretary of the Navy James McPherson had ordered the new review regarding the Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Crozier on Apr. 29, 2020, which the Navy<\/a> subsequently confirmed. This decision reportedly came after pressure from U.S. Army General Mark Milley<\/a>, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had also argued for this additional investigation to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.<\/p>\n “After carefully reviewing the preliminary inquiry into the events surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, provided me with his recommendations,” Acting Secretary McPherson said in a statement to USNI News<\/a>. “Following our discussion, I have unanswered questions that the preliminary inquiry has identified and that can only be answered by a deeper review.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reinstatement would not be a favor to Crozier; he’d spend his days as a Staff Officer to some Flag, and never be promoted above O-6 until he hits high-year-tenure. Best to retire now and move on. Read the entire article here: The Drive<\/a>Work has already begun on getting the affected ship, USS Theodore Roosevelt, back out to sea after more than a month of being sidelined.<\/h3>\n
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