US Navy
- Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt reportedly believed his dire letter warning of the coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship would not be allowed to be sent by his superiors.
- The acting Navy secretary, Thomas Modly, said that Crozier was "panicking" and was flabbergasted by him being "so out of character," he said to the Washington Post.
- Modly claimed that he eventually fired Crozier because he "didn't want to get into a decision where the president would feel that he had to intervene."
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The US Navy commander of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier reportedly sent out a "signal flare" — a four-page emailed letter outlining the urgency of a coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship — to fellow naval aviators because he believed his immediate supervisor would not have allowed the letter to be sent.
Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt may have been worried that Rear Adm. Stuart Baker, his immediate boss and the commander of the carrier strike group, would not have allowed him to send the warning letter to Navy leaders, according to the top Navy official who fired him as told to a Washington Post columnist.
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