Government Executive: Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday, just over 24 hours after leaked audio showed him giving a profanity-laced speech slamming a warship captain he had recently fired.
“He resigned on his own accord, putting the Navy and the Sailors above himself, so the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and the Navy as an institution, can move forward,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a late-afternoon statement announcing that he had accepted Modly’s resignation on Tuesday morning. “His care for the sailors was genuine.”
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