Trump’s pick for top Navy position pledges to fix ‘failure in leadership’

In a four-page letter, first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle in late March, Crozier described a worsening coronavirus outbreak aboard the warship, a temporary home to more than 4,000 crew members. At the time, more than 100 people on the ship were infected.

“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors,” Crozier wrote. “The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating.”

The coronavirus exposure aboard the Roosevelt, which is docked in Guam, followed a recently completed port call to Da Nang, Vietnam. Fifteen days after leaving Vietnam, three sailors from the Roosevelt tested positive for the virus. Since then, more than 1,000 sailors on the Roosevelt have tested positive for the virus and one sailor has died.

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