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"I didn't want to get into a decision where the president would feel that he had to intervene because the Navy couldn't be decisive"

"There's a black hole of information at the lowest level"

He "began exhibiting symptoms" before he left the ship, the New York Times reports

“This may have the effect of chilling the responses of other commanding officers because it will be perceived, fairly or not, as a shoot the messenger scenario."

"I suppose it is too much to hope that the Navy, if only for its own benefit, will see its way to reverse this unfortunate decision."

The Navy has hit a new low by firing an aircraft carrier captain who was trying to save his crew from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

"He'll get reassigned, he's not thrown out of the Navy," Modly said.

House Armed Services Committee members have demanded answers about the Navy's abrupt dismissal of the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt after the leak of his letter to superiors calling for help with a coronavirus outbreak

The fired commander of a U.S. aircraft carrier that suffered a coronavirus outbreak will not be thrown out of the Navy but rather reassigned, acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told Reuters on Friday

“Now that’s how you send out one of the greatest captains we ever had!”

“Dismissing a commanding officer for speaking out on issues critical to the safety of those under their command discourages others from raising similar concerns,” lawmakers said.

The Navy has fired USS Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who wrote a March 30 memo that the majority of the ship’s crew should be placed in individual quarantine amid COVID-19 concerns

The letter was submitted to top Navy officials "to express concern for the health and safety of American sailors and Marines" on Navy vessels facing COVID-19.

About 1,000 sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt - roughly a fifth of its crew - were under quarantine on Guam on Thursday.

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday did not rule out punishing the captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter to Navy leadership asking for stronger measures to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

The Navy is pulling sailors off an aircraft carrier hit hard by the coronavirus and forced into port in Guam, where many sailors will soon spend two weeks quarantined in vacant hotels

The Navy "cannot allow a single sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily," Capt. Brett E. Crozier wrote in a letter

The USS Theodore Roosevelt isn't the only Navy aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific that's currently dealing the threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) among its sailors.

A coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has the Navy scrambling to test the entire crew.

The announcement comes days after Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said three sailors aboard the carrier were diagnosed with the virus and flown from the ship.

They are the first known cases of the virus on board a U.S. military ship at sea, the Navy said.

"In terms of units that are affordable to sailors, we have an absolute shortage."

Loose lips sink ships, but do they reveal too much about the hugely anticipated "Top Gun" sequel, "Top Gun: Maverick," filmed onboard in February?