Yep, when he apologized yesterday you knew he was toast.
Morons...
Can’t take the heat? Get out of the kitchen. I’m sure there is a manly retired Admiral about that will take the post, and support his Commander-in-Chief.
Wow!
Serious, serious stuff going on.
They both took their cases to the press. This was an internal matter and Modly had no business making public comments on the subject. These people are all incapable of saying the two words that would save their careers. “No Comment”.
It’s highly unusual for any service secretary — appointed & confirmed or acting—to relieve any officer of their service, especially one who’s below an O-9 level...Highly Unusual.
Trump plays honest broker between the two parties. No beer summit — just fire them both!
Wonderful! Now get Captain Crozier back to his ship.
Military and Pentagon need a total overhaul of politicians in uniform running to press.
This whole thing is a fiasco.
Praise in public; criticize in private.
Vince Lombardy
Not surprising.
This turned into a PR disaster for the Navy when the Acting Secretary made his comments to the ship’s crew about a man they admired and respected. In all my years in the Army, I never heard such a personal attack from a senior person on someone junior to them, particularly after they had been removed from command was wasn’t able to defend themselves. Good bye and good riddance.
Ok that’s fine but the Navy has not been “plunged into dissaray”.
Maybe during and immediately after Pearl Harbor, part of the Navy was in dissaray.
It was a Navy management matter. He didn’t need to explain himself to the crew nor spotlight the former CO. If he had to say anything at all, he could have kept it short, simple, perhaps encouraging, but all business. He might have offered guidance to the ranking officers and CPOs through a directive until the new CO takes the reins.
Scratch two idiots. Captain was unfit overall. The SecNav had no reason to explain to the snowflakes why he did it. Very bad habit. Give your order, let the new Captain execute it.
However, kicking a man when he's down in front of the people who believed he was trying to help them was out of line.
Did no one review his speech? Did no one tell him it's one thing to be firm in your actions and it's another to be a jerk?
The Navy is a mess.
I think its a damn shame when the Navy Secretary cant call out a stupid move without “ offending” the crew of a ship that was endangered by that stupid move
Reminds me of the press campaign that got Patton fired for glove slapping a blubbering GI in a field hospital
Can’t say I’m disappointed in his resignation. He demonstrated a lack of sensitivity to the concept of naval morale, for being an academy grad. His confirmation was going to be a tough go in the Senate, after his 1MC speech.