Modly Slams Former Theodore Roosevelt Commander <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Crozier was revered by his crew for writing a letter that leaked publicly calling for stronger action from the Navy to help stem an outbreak of coronavirus infections aboard his ship.<\/p>\n
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Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi added her voice to calls forModly\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSadly, Acting Secretary\u00a0Modly\u2019s actions and words demonstrate his failure to prioritize the force protection of our troops,\u201d Pelosi said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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A fellow Democrat, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith had already called for\u00a0Modly\u2019s removal. (Reporting by Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Grant McCool)<\/p>\n
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It was unclear whether Defense Secretary Mark Esper accepted\u00a0Modly\u2019s resignation offer. Democrats in Congress had called for his removal, citing a loss of confidence. Esper\u2019s office and the Navy declined to comment. Modly\u2019s offer follows the public disclosure of a surprise speech he made on Monday to the crew of the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4325,1864,1192,4405,1606,1089,4394,3550,4365,4404],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-acting","tag-carrier","tag-crew","tag-leaked","tag-modly","tag-navy","tag-resigns","tag-secretary","tag-speech","tag-uproar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}