Yeah, fuckn, crying shame. Just when ya need folks who are willing to maker the hard decisions, they get shit canNed. That kinda crap starts from the top down, until.........
salute to this guy for looking out for the sailors under his command.
unfortunately, there will always be politicians...........
I can't imagine that he did not know that there would be consequences for releasing that letter. To my mind it makes what he did all the more admirable.
He didn't just call him stupid, he flew 16,000 miles round trip to call him stupid. What an excellent use of taxpayer money in a time of crisis!Well ... The one positive thing that came out of all this was, that the Acting Secretary of the Navy who called the captain “Stupid” over the ships loud speaker, has resigned for that crap.
Acting secretary of the Navy resigns after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday, a day after leaked audio revealed he called the ousted commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt "stupid" in an address to the ship's crew.amp.cnn.com