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Apr 27, 2020 · Captain Crozier concluded his email to his “Fellow Naval Aviators” by telling them that he was taking his action “regardless of the impact on [his] career.” In point of fact, it was hardly necessary to tell experienced senior officers to whom he addressed his email with its incendiary attachment about the potential career fallout from the way he elected to deal with the crisis.
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The initial reporting by the media on Captain Crozier’s e-mail focused almost exclusively on the attached memo, and not the content of the e-mail itself.[iii]In fact, the text of the e-mail forms the central argument, with the attached memo – which is not even referred to in the e-mail – being more in the nature of supporting reference material. Th...
CAPT Crozier sent the e-mail exclusively to the naval aviators in his chain of command, with copies to other senior aviators. The US Navy is shaped and ruled by three principle warfare communities – aviation, surface, and submarine. In the Navy, many officers identify with their “tribe” first, and the Navy a distant second. As one might imagine, th...
As discussed in the previous article, CAPT Crozier was almost certainly communicating with Navy leadership via the operational reporting (OPREP) system. Using that mechanism, he had the ability – no, the responsibility, in accordance with the governing instruction - to provide updates to the Secretary of the Navy, the CNO, and the entire operationa...
In addition to the OPREP mechanism discussed above, if CAPT Crozier wanted to communicate privately and exclusively with a select group of naval aviators, he could have sent the text of his e-mail as a “personal for” (P4) naval message. No one would begrudge a commanding officer sending a P4 message, and it would be less likely to leak than an uncl...
The person that leaked the memo to the press is still unknown, but what happened next is an important lesson in who shapes the narrative.[v] Spoiler alert: it isn't the leaker. Assuming that the San Francisco Chronicle, the news organization that broke this story, had both the e-mail content as well as the memo and not just the memo, it is instruct...
As of the writing of this article, we know that the Navy’s initial investigation into the circumstances of CAPT Crozier’s relief is complete. We also know that the new Acting Secretary of the Navy has directed the CNO to conduct a more in-depth command investigation.[vii]Hopefully, some of the questions that will be answered will include the follow...
[i]https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/04/07/the_crozier_memo_an_analysis_115179.html [ii] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/how-an-outbreak-on-the-uss-roosevelt-became-a-defining-moment-for-the-us-military/2020/04/16/2735f85c-7f24-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html [iii] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Exclusiv...
Mar 8, 2021 · As late as March 30 – the day Crozier sent his now-infamous email along with a four-page letter to Navy commanders – sailors from the Theodore Roosevelt were not lodged in single rooms ashore ...
Apr 16, 2020 · Crozier, who was dismissed as commanding officer of Theodore Roosevelt within 48 hours of sending the email, departed the ship to rousing applause and chants of his name as he walked along the ...
Jun 14, 2023 · Crozier knew the possible consequences of sending that March 2020 email from Guam to higher-ups while he was commanding the COVID-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, a message in which ...
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Jul 9, 2020 · In fact, it had quite the opposite effect. 7. Don’t presume you know more than you do about what’s going on outside your command. When a leader asks for help, supporting commands will spin up ...
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Jun 15, 2023 · Three years after the Navy fired him for sounding the alarm on a COVID-19 outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, Brett Crozier in a new book sheds light on his final weeks in ...
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