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The captain of the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, dismissed for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak on the ship, was hailed as a hero by troops on his departure, according to several videos posted on social media on Friday.

In the images, Captain Brett Crozier, retired from his post on Thursday after his warning letter to the Navy was leaked to the press, is seen leaving the ship as he passes in the midst of dozens of sailors who make him a corridor of honor. .

As he proceeds, his troops silently bid farewell with a military salute to the captain as he approaches, and when he has reached the ship's gangway, the sailors are heard shouting "Captain Crozier, Captain Crozier!", While applaud.

Descending from the gangway, the aircraft carrier commander waves to the crew before boarding a waiting car.

In a four-page letter to his superiors that was leaked by the San Francisco Chronicle, Crozier requested the immediate evacuation of his ship, after multiple cases of COVID-19 were recorded. "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," the captain wrote in that letter published Tuesday by the Californian newspaper.

But the Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly, did not appreciate what happened. "We are not at war in the traditional sense of the word, but we are not completely at peace either," Modly said Thursday in announcing the captain's departure at a press conference. Crozier "proved to have extremely poor judgment in the midst of a crisis" in his handling of the letter, Modly said.

The Pentagon urges its military to express its criticism to its superiors, respecting the ranks, and what the United States Army is demanding of the removed captain is that he have allowed his letter to be leaked to the press by copying thirty people in his email.

In addition, the Pentagon indicated, the commander made the decision to give his troops five days off on the last stopover of Theodore Roosevelt, in early March in Vietnam, when the new coronavirus was sweeping Asia.

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