{"id":176678,"date":"2020-04-17T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/17\/this-is-gonna-get-interesting\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:43:00","slug":"this-is-gonna-get-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/17\/this-is-gonna-get-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Gonna Get Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"
It looks like the US Navy is considering reinstating Captain Brett Crozier to command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>. <\/div>\n

He was fired because his email embarrassed “Dear Leader” Trump, and anyone who does not think that the White House did not play a role in this is deluded, notwithstanding acting SecNav Modly’s falling on his sword.<\/p>\n

I expect to see a significantly less subtle intervention from the Oval Office to prevent this:<\/p>\n

The Navy is looking into whether it can reinstate Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who was removed from command of the carrier Theodore Roosevelt after he pleaded for more help<\/a> fighting a novel coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship, Defense Department officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the chief of naval operations, has indicated that he may reinstate Captain Crozier, who is viewed as a hero by his crew<\/a> for putting their lives above his career, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo final decisions have been made,\u201d Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a spokesman for the admiral, said in a statement on Wednesday to The New York Times. Commander Christensen added that Admiral Gilday was reviewing the findings of a preliminary investigation into the events surrounding Captain Crozier\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n

But Admiral Gilday\u2019s decision could be upended by President Trump, who has not been shy about intervening in military personnel cases. Only five months ago, Mr. Trump fired Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer for opposing the president\u2019s intervention in support of a member of the Navy SEALs accused of murdering a wounded captive with a hunting knife during a deployment to Iraq in 2017.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, it seems likely that Crozier will be collateral damage in this conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like the US Navy is considering reinstating Captain Brett Crozier to command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.  He was fired because his email embarrassed “Dear Leader” Trump, and anyone who does not think that the White House did not play a role in this is deluded, notwithstanding acting SecNav Modly’s falling on his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,387,445,572,374],"class_list":["post-176678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-hypocrisy","tag-naval","tag-pandemic","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}