{"id":146277,"date":"2023-08-23T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146277"},"modified":"2023-08-23T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:15:21","slug":"uss-howard-grounded-skipper-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146277","title":{"rendered":"USS Howard Grounded, Skipper Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uss-howard-ddg83-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uss-howard-ddg83-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uss-howard-ddg83.png 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>USS Howard (DDG-83)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>USS Howard sustained \u2018soft grounding\u2019 near Bali ahead of port visit<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Diana Stancy Correll<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Japan-based guided-missile destroyer Howard, whose commanding officer was fired Saturday, suffered a \u201csoft grounding\u201d this month as it pulled into Bali for a scheduled port visit, according to Navy officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the morning of Aug. 10, USS Howard (DDG 83) experienced an apparent soft grounding shortly before arriving in Bali, Indonesia, for a scheduled port visit,\u201d Lt. Luka Bakic, a spokesperson for U.S. 7th Fleet, said in an email to Navy Times. \u201cUpon indication of potential grounding, watch standers took immediate action to protect the crew and the ship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ship was able to return to normal operations under its own power and propulsion,\u201d Bakic said. \u201cThere were no injuries as a result of the mishap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident is currently under investigation, according to Bakic.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy relieved the destroyer\u2019s commanding officer, Cmdr. Kenji Igawa, from his duties Saturday \u201cdue to loss of confidence in his ability to command,\u201d the service said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/08\/22\/uss-howard-sustained-soft-grounding-near-bali-ahead-of-port-visit\/\">Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parking a ship in the mud is frowned upon as a general rule, but when arriving at a foreign port? Bad form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Howard (DDG-83) USS Howard sustained \u2018soft grounding\u2019 near Bali ahead of port visit By Diana &hellip; <a title=\"USS Howard Grounded, Skipper Fired\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146277\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Howard Grounded, Skipper Fired<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":146278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dick-stepping","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}