The Navy dismisses Captain Crozier for writing an impassioned memo beseeching the service to do more to remedy the dire situation aboard the Roosevelt.
Captain Brett Crozier had been relived of his command of U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt in April for sending a memo pleading in urgent terms for all but a skeleton crew to be removed amid the outbreak.
Captain Brett E. Crozier was fired after a letter he wrote to top Navy officials about a Covid-19 outbreak on USS Theodore Roosevelt was leaked to media.
Indian military’s track record in fixing accountability is poor, most notably during the Kargil War. This can have serious repercussions for us in peace and wartime.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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