{"id":67449,"date":"2016-08-15T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67449"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:20:43","slug":"rivron-3-patrol-ranking-officer-appeals-njp-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67449","title":{"rendered":"RIVRON 3 Patrol Ranking Officer Appeals NJP Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ranking officer on the ill-fated 2-boat patrol from the US Navy&#8217;s RIVRON 3 captured by Iran IVO Farsi Island earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/08\/11\/david-nartker-appealing-njp-scott-swift-pacflt\/88573798\/\"><em>has appealed the punishment he received under non-judicial punishment<\/em><\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>The individual in question, LT David Nartker, was among a group of 4 individuals who received NJP last week in conjunction with their actions during the patrol.\u00a0 Punishment was imposed on 3 of the individuals; the fourth was found not guilty by the Commander, Naval Expeditionary Combat Command.\u00a0 Three more senior members of the chain-of-command in charge of the fiasco had previously received administrative sanctions likely to end their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Nartker was the ranking officer on the patrol.\u00a0 He also apparently agreed to be interviewed by Iran on video as a condition of release.\u00a0 Iran later used the interview for propaganda purposes.<\/p>\n<p>During that interview, Nartker admitted the Navy had erred and apologized for the error.\u00a0 Investigators determined Nartker&#8217;s conduct to have been in contravention of the Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Nartker is apparently the only one of the three found guilty at NJP to appeal his punishment.\u00a0 It is unclear whether any of the others will do so, as the 30-day period for filing appeals has not yet ended.<\/p>\n<p>The Commander, PACFLEET, will consider Nartker&#8217;s appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ranking officer on the ill-fated 2-boat patrol from the US Navy&#8217;s RIVRON 3 captured by &hellip; <a title=\"RIVRON 3 Patrol Ranking Officer Appeals NJP Punishment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67449\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIVRON 3 Patrol Ranking Officer Appeals NJP Punishment<\/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-67449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449","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=67449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}