{"id":66490,"date":"2016-06-24T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66490"},"modified":"2016-06-24T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:55:55","slug":"january-capture-of-2-us-boats-kills-another-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66490","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Capture of 2 US Patrol Craft Ends Yet Another Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian capture of two US Navy patrol craft earlier this year has apparently ended another senior Naval officer&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has announced that CAPT Kyle Moses &#8211; Commodore of Commander Task Force (CTF) 56, the parent unit of the patrol boats captured by the Iranians in January &#8211; will be relieved of command. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65751\"><em>As Jonn previously noted<\/em><\/a> some weeks ago, the Commander and former Executive Officer of the squadron involved, CDR Eric Rasch, has already been relieved.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/23\/navy-commodore-to-be-relieved-command-over-irans-capture-his-sailors.html\"><em>has an article giving more details<\/em><\/a> concerning CAPT Moses&#8217; relief.\u00a0 It&#8217;s IMO worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox article indicates that a &#8220;multitude of errors&#8221; led to the patrol boats seizure by Iranian forces.\u00a0 The errors described in that article clearly indicate that the unit suffered from inadequate training and that supervision was lacking.<\/p>\n<p>It further indicates that additional personnel are likely to face disciplinary action and\/or administrative sanctions due to the incident.\u00a0 However, those individuals have not yet been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the Navy may actually be doing a decent investigation of this one after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian capture of two US Navy patrol craft earlier this year has apparently ended another &hellip; <a title=\"Iranian Capture of 2 US Patrol Craft Ends Yet Another Career\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iranian Capture of 2 US Patrol Craft Ends Yet Another Career<\/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-66490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66490","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=66490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}