The Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly, addressed the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt days after the ship's commander, Captain Brett Crozier, was relieved of duty for sending a memo outside the chain of command. The memo, which detailed the failures of how the Navy was dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on the ship, was leaked the media.

Modly spoke to the crew over the PA system for just over 15 minutes. He blasted Crozier for sending the memo and called him "naive" and "stupid" for believing it would remain private after sending it to roughly 20 people.

"If he didn't think, in my opinion, that this information wasn't going to get out to the public, in this day and information age that we live in, then he was either A, too naïve or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this," Modly said. "The alternative is that he did this on purpose."

Modly called Crozier's actions a "betrayal" to the Navy.

"It was a betrayal. And I can tell you one other thing: because he did that he put it in the public's forum and it is now a big controversy in Washington, DC," Modly said.

You can listen to his full address below.

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