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Navy secretary apologizes for calling fired captain 'stupid'

by Associated Press
| April 7, 2020 12:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy's acting secretary has been forced to apologize after a profanity-laden broadside in which he called the fired commander of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt "too naive or too stupid.”

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