The US Navy announced yesterday the dismissal of an aircraft carrier commander who issued warnings after his ship was exposed to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, using a letter to his superiors to get the sailors out of the ship.
Reuters quoted the US Navy as announcing that it had excused Captain Brett Crozier, the aircraft carrier commander Theodore Roosevelt, after he wrote a letter to his superiors that leaked to the public asking the Navy to take stronger measures to control the outbreak of the Corona virus on the aircraft carrier.
Pentagon officials confirmed Cruzier's exemption from his duties, saying he had acted outside the chain of command, and speculated that he might have handled the situation beyond his capacity, but showed a poor assessment.
Their lives are in danger
German news agency DPA reported that Crozier, in charge of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, now anchored in the port of Guam, had written a letter saying that sailors' lives were in danger.
"We are not at war. Sailors should not die," said the letter, which was published by American media.
The US military has not accused Cruzier of leaking the letter, but Navy Chief of Operations Michael Guilday said he had caused "widespread disturbance".
While the navy is conducting the evacuation of sailors from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, officials continue to reduce the severity of the situation, saying that dozens of HIV infections were moderate cases.
Evacuated more than a thousand
More than a thousand crew members were evacuated from the carrier after cutting its mission in the Pacific Ocean and landing on Guam, and those working on it in a dry land will be quarantined.
Croisier did not specify the number of those injured on the aircraft carrier, and the Navy does not announce numbers for security reasons, but an official said that their number is less than 100, which is reported in the American media.
A senior US official said the Navy had rushed to book rooms in hotels on Guam Island for many of the more than 4,000 crew members, while a team of uninfected sailors was being prepared to keep the ship running.
The Corona epidemic prompted the US Department of Defense to amend a number of its military plans, which raised questions about its repercussions for the combat readiness of the United States.