{"id":65376,"date":"2016-04-22T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65376"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:58:11","slug":"us-navy-fire-another-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65376","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Fires Another Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an investigation, the Navy recently relieved LCDR Jeremiah Daley of command of the <em>USS Typhoon<\/em>.\u00a0 The <em>USS Typhoon<\/em> is a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclone-class_patrol_ship\">Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship<\/a><\/em>; the Navy maintains 10 ships of this class in the Persian Gulf based at Manama, Bahrain.\u00a0\u00a0 The <em>USS Typhoon<\/em> is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>LCDR Daley apparently was relieved for reasons other than the seemingly-standard \u201closs of confidence\u201d.\u00a0 A lengthy Navy investigation report indicates he was removed from command for &#8220;poor performance as a commanding officer and his multiple lapses of personal integrity.&#8221;\u00a0 The report indicates he neglected maintenance of shipboard systems to the point of endangering his crew; was observed drunk and disorderly in public; drank in front of his crew; made &#8220;suspected false statements&#8221; to superiors; and may have attempted to impede an investigatio into his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, LCDR Daley is challenging the report, claiming that a &#8220;good number of things are 100 percent not true&#8221;.\u00a0 Unless he\u2019s got 17 or 18 years of active duty service already, however, I\u2019d guess his time would be best spent these days wordsmithing his resume.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking he\u2019s going to need it soon.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/04\/21\/ap-exclusive-us-navy-accuses-gulf-commander-misconduct.html\">has an article giving more details<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s IMO worthwhile \u00a0&#8211; if somewhat depressing &#8211; reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an investigation, the Navy recently relieved LCDR Jeremiah Daley of command of the USS Typhoon.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy Fires Another Skipper\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65376\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy Fires Another Skipper<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}