Navy Not Ruling Out Reinstating USS Roosevelt Skipper Who Complained About Coronavirus
As Capt. Brett Crozier, infected with the coronavirus, remains in Guam after being sacked from his command of the aircraft carrier, defense officials say his reinstatement is "not off the table."
Top U.S. defense officials are not ruling out restoring Navy Capt. Brett Crozier to his former command of the coronavirus-sidelined aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Crozier was abruptly removed from that post on April 3 after going outside of his chain of command and emailing an impassioned plea for a more decisive response to the outbreak.
Such a reinstatement of a sacked warship skipper would be without precedent in the Navy. There have been numerous by congressional
