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Gen. Keane gives his take on fired Navy aircraft carrier captain

Apr 09, 2020
Tonight, Senate Democrats are calling on the Pentagon to launch an independent inspector general investigation into the Navy's decision to relieve USS Theodore Roosevelt Captain Roosevelt of his position, Capt. Bret Crozier, who you see here, sounded the alarm about the cove at 7 p.m., outbreak that was On board his

aircraft

carrier

, he wrote a letter to Navy officials on Sunday asking for the immediate evacuation of the ship after more than one hundred sailors tested positive on board. Now the acting Secretary of the Navy says the

captain

acted without discussing the letter with his immediate commanding officer. and he sent the letter through an unsecured and unclassified email system, but it was copied to 20 or 30 other people.
gen keane gives his take on fired navy aircraft carrier captain
Okay, that's just not acceptable, he didn't care and what that did was create panic on the ship. that showed extremely poor judgment in the middle of a crisis because what he has done has created a firestorm has created doubts about the ship's ability to go see if necessary has created doubts among families about the health of their sailors and that was completely unnecessary in the middle of a crisis, join me now General Jack Keane retired four-star general and senior strategic analyst for Fox News, General Keane, always a pleasure to see you, what's your

take

on this story?
gen keane gives his take on fired navy aircraft carrier captain

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Yeah, I think those are pretty unfortunate circumstances. place here because everyone involved here has good intentions and you know, my first issue is that the Secretary of the Navy, listen, is completely justified and is taking whatever action he has for the reasons he stated, but the question is why is he doing that? . You ask me, and he has at least four admirals between him and his

captain

, with over a hundred years of experience involved in Navy operations, if he is concerned about someone who runs the most powerful symbol of American power in this country, which is an

aircraft

carrier

. he let those admirals make that assessment and make a judgment, but the secretary of the Navy got personally involved in this.
gen keane gives his take on fired navy aircraft carrier captain
I understand that you may have had a conversation with the captain last week, so that's the number one issue for me and if Doing that if you're making those decisions and not letting the Admiral make those decisions at lower levels, aren't you going around the chain of command and weakening that chain to come in and do something like that? In my opinion, that's true, but I'll come back to that, he has the authority to do it. Secondly, why do it now? The Roosevelt is not operationally deployed. There's a strike commando group that's on that ship that's still functioning and they have control of the other ships, but the ships.
gen keane gives his take on fired navy aircraft carrier captain
The company in general is focused on sheltering, isolating and testing the crew and getting the now 140 that are poorly cared for 90 something and of them are symptomatic, we all know that a Navy captain is a larger than life figure . On a ship everyone has an opinion about the captain who serves on that ship, most of them are very favorable because we have great people serving and to

take

that person out in the middle of the crisis that threatens the lives of the people on that ship. ship seems to me like it's not the right time, let's make a judgment about what mistake you may have made, but let it continue there until the full evaluation is complete and we get an emotional separation from this.
The third thing is the captain himself. I mean, why would he write a letter after having had a lot of dialogue with his chain of command on an unsecured network and then copy people who weren't in his chain of command into that letter? Some of them are subordinate to him, which is absolutely In my opinion, a stupid mistake, despite the fact that he means well, he was obviously talking to his chain of command before arriving in Guam, very high in the chain of command. command and they knew he had a lot of concern that they were working on to try to bring him to his knees and at some point over the weekend I'm convinced he must have come to the conclusion hey listen, they're not moving fast enough.
I have to do something about this and that prompted the letter, but there are other ways. to handle that whole chain of command, if you wanted him in a vtc to talk to them about the problem, you have to include the Chief of Naval Operations and go all the way to the top with everyone else in that vtc, he would have gotten it. vtc without any problem with some reason why do that and that decision is what is the problem here and it may be one you regret. I have no idea, but like you say, he clearly got to the point or I guess just From this sequence of events, he got to the point where he felt like no one was listening to him and that his people were in a bad situation and he wanted to help them.
Listen to this video, this is them cheering him on as he was getting off the ship, they are singing Captain Crozier Captain Crozier, I mean there are a lot of people interested in general who seemed to feel that he was fine on his back, to my point, I mean he is a figure larger than life at that. On that ship, everyone knows who you are and you can see the send-off he is receiving from many of the crew members. You know, obviously, they don't agree with that decision. Here they themselves are emotionally invested in this. Back to my original point, I mean.
It's an unfortunate situation, I think it could have been handled better. I think when it comes to issues that take place up the chain of command, those who are closest to that chain of command know the facts, know the people involved, let them make the decisions and the assessment on it with some people in the Pentagon making decisions about a guy who runs the ship in the Pacific. I think I think he's well-intentioned. You have the authority to do it, but I think it would be better. Let's leave it to people much closer to the problem Jarrell Keene, it's always good to know his opinion, thank you sir, it's a pleasure to see you tonight, yes, they were good talking to you, Martha.

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