Le feuilleton #Captain_Crozier continue.
Apparemment, ça castagnette dans les hautes sphères : on crée une commission…
U.S. Navy to carry out deeper review of coronavirus-hit ship - Reuters
▻https://fr.reuters.com/article/Aerospace/idUKKBN22B2CG
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said that it would carry out a broader review into the spread of the coronavirus aboard an aircraft carrier, a move likely to delay a decision on the future of the ship’s fired captain.
Captain Brett Crozier was relieved of command of the carrier Theodore Roosevelt after the leak of a letter he wrote calling on the Navy for stronger measures to protect the crew.
Last week, the Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday recommended after a preliminary investigation that Crozier be reinstated.
“I have unanswered questions that the preliminary inquiry has identified and that can only be answered by a deeper review,” acting U.S. Navy Secretary James McPherson said.
“Therefore, I am directing Admiral Gilday to conduct a follow-on command investigation,” McPherson said.
He added that the report would look to provide a “more fulsome understanding of the sequence of events, actions, and decisions of the chain of command.”
Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee, said that the investigation should be “thorough and expeditious.”
“I reiterated that... the recommendations of the military leadership on his reinstatement should be heavily weighed,” Reed said.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the investigation would take about a month to complete.
The move appears to be in line with the wishes of U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who had been in favor of receiving a completed written investigation before making any decisions.
Esper had received a verbal briefing on the preliminary inquiry but felt that was insufficient to go forward on the Navy’s recommendations.
