{"id":35101,"date":"2013-04-14T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35101"},"modified":"2013-04-14T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:45:10","slug":"navy-takes-nine-months-to-drop-hammer-on-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35101","title":{"rendered":"Navy takes nine months to drop hammer on Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably remember when we wrote about Navy Cmdr. Michael Ward II<\/a>, who fell in extramarital love on line, pretended to be a SEAL with his new girlfriend, got a submarine command and then pretended to die to get rid of his new girlfriend. Then his girlfriend showed up for his funeral, which, of course, didn’t happen which made her turn him in to NCIS, the Navy guys, not the TV show (although, I think they did that one already).<\/p>\n

Well, that was back in August, and now it’s April, and the Navy has decided that Ward should be honorably discharged, says the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Cmdr. Ward asked to remain in the service during the hearing, and his lawyers argued that despite his mistakes, the case came down to personal misconduct that should not destroy what had been a highly distinguished career. But attorneys for the government countered that Cmdr. Ward discredited the Navy and that his removal put a strain on the fleet because officers had to be shuffled around to cover his removal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a case of lapsed judgment; this is case of no judgment,\u201d said NavyLt. Griffin Farris, acting as prosecutor at the hearing.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Still, the Navy shouldn\u2019t throw away his talent and training, said high-ranking officers with whom Cmdr. Ward has served. They said he made an awful mistake and that he was a fast-rising, hard-working officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, he sucks up to superiors at light-speed and he has a purty mouth. <\/p>\n

He should have been allowed to retire nine months ago and saved the tax payers his full pay, if this is as tough as they’re going to be on him. Of course, this is just a recommendation from the board, and Ward’s commander can accept their recommendation or not, but I suspect, if the Navy is like the Army, he’ll retire at full pension and you’ll probably see him on a roster of contractors within the allotted time that officers are allowed to do that. If his wife doesn’t smother him in his sleep first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably remember when we wrote about Navy Cmdr. Michael Ward II, who fell in extramarital … Navy takes nine months to drop hammer on Ward<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35101","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}