This is not a political issue. The scathing letter was appropriate for a ship at sea with increasing crew members becoming ill and unable to serve in their capacity.
The Navy wants to know how the media got it? From a spouse, father, mother, sibling or friend of those on that ship. Anyone could be the leaker and the US Military has no right to remove a seasoned officer at a time of national emergency over a new article!
Who knows how they got the letter. Oh, may, a conspiracy to demand help for the sick.
If the military had listened to the first requests this wouldn't have happened at all. The commander had to distribute a memo to the sailors so they knew he was on their side and he was doing everything in his power to get them help.
April 2, 2020
The U.S. Navy (click here) is expected to relieve the commander of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter that leaked to the public asking the Navy for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak on board, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Captain Brett Crozier was being relieved not because he wrote the letter and sent it up through the chain of command but because the Navy believes he leaked it to the media.
One of the officials said a formal announcement could be made as early as Thursday.
Over 100 personnel on the 5,000-person ship have tested positive for the coronavirus so far.
