{"id":65751,"date":"2016-05-13T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65751"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:32:10","slug":"navy-fires-navy-commander-eric-rasch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65751","title":{"rendered":"Navy fires Navy Commander Eric Rasch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the LA Times<\/a>, Commander Eric Rasch, the executive officer of the 10 folks who were captured by the Iranians in the Persian Gulf and held for several hours back in January;<\/p>\n

In a statement Thursday, the Navy said it had lost confidence in Cmdr. Eric Rasch…A Navy official said Rasch failed to provide effective leadership, leading to a lack of oversight, complacency and failure to maintain standards in the unit…Although this is the first firing by the Navy regarding the incident, several other sailors received administrative reprimands. The investigation is expected to be finished by the end of the month, and others are likely to be disciplined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article says that Rasch was made commander of the unit in April, but, you know, the Navy lost confidence in him in the last few weeks, I guess.<\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to the preliminary report, the sailors originally set out from Kuwait for Bahrain but quickly — and unknowingly — went off course and headed almost directly for Iran’s Farsi Island in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
\nThe report found that several factors may have contributed to the failure:
\n\u2022 The sailors had never made the trip before.
\n\u2022 They had been up most of the night before conducting maintenance on one of the boats that had broken down.
\n\u2022 They had to “cannibalize” parts from a third boat in order to have two working vessels.
\n\u2022 They then experienced problems with their satellite communications gear.
\nAll of this led them to leaving port later than planned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’ve lost confidence in the Navy’s ability to investigate this incident. Fire the whole lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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