Acting US Navy Secretary resigns after calling captain "stupid!"

According to local media reports in the United States, according to a person familiar with the matter, after criticizing the dismissed "Roosevelt" aircraft carrier Captain Crozier as "naive or stupid" on the 6th local time, U.S. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly submitted a letter of resignation to Defense Secretary Mark Esper on the 7th local time.

On the evening of April 6, Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized to the crew of the aircraft carrier and Crozier himself for his criticism of the former captain of the USS Roosevelt earlier that day.

According to a report on the Capitol Hill website on April 6, Modly said in a statement released to multiple media outlets: "Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Crozier is 'naive' or 'stupid'. I think, and have always thought, that he is not such a person."