Navy secretary’s flight out to an aircraft carrier to bash its fired captain cost taxpayers $243,000 – By Ryan Pickrell (Business Insider) / April 9 2020
- The former acting Navy secretary’s trip out to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to deliver a speech critical of its former captain to the crew cost taxpayers $243,000, USA Today first reported.
- The carrier is currently at port in Guam, where the crew is working to get a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship under control.
- The acting Navy’s secretary’s 35-hour round-trip flight aboard one of the service’s executive jets cost $6,946.19 per hour, bringing the exact total to $243,116.65.
- A Navy official confirmed to Insider the cost figure for the trip, which ultimately cost the Navy chief his job.
Former Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly flew out to the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt over the weekend to deliver a speech bashing the ship’s former captain to the crew. The trip cost taxpayers $243,000, USA Today first reported, citing a Navy official.
The TR is currently in port in Guam as the crew deals with a coronavirus outbreak that has seen nearly 300 sailors test positive for the virus.
Modly’s 35-hour round-trip flight to and from Guam aboard a C-37B, a military variant of the Gulfstream 550, cost $6,946.19 per hour, bringing the total cost of the flight to $243,116.65.
A Navy official confirmed the cost figure to Insider.
In his speech to the crew, Modly bashed Capt. Brett Crozier, whom he relieved of duty last Thursday after a letter the former TR commanding officer wrote warning of a worsening coronavirus outbreak aboard the carrier leaked to the media.
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