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    Modly Resigns As Acting Navy Chief After Firing Warship Skipper And Calling Him Stupid

    First it was his sacking of Capt. Brett Crozier last week; then it was a diatribe he delivered aboard the USS Roosevelt on Sunday. Now acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is out.
    by David Welna Apr 07, 2020 3 minutes
    Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly testifing before a Senate hearing in December 2019.

    Updated at 5:34 p.m. ET

    Five days after firing the commander of a coronavirus-crippled U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and a day after apologizing for calling that skipper naive and stupid in heated remarks to that warship's crew, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly called it quits. Defense Secretary Esper has accepted his resignation.

    Modly resigned amid public outrage over his handling of the COVID-19 crisis aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt and growing demands from congressional Democrats for his removal.

    Esper said Modly submitted his resignation as acting Navy secretary to succeed Modly.

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