{"id":74817,"date":"2017-09-19T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74817"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:05:22","slug":"ctf-70-commander-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74817","title":{"rendered":"CTF-70 Commander fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rear-Adm.-Charles-Williams-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rear-Adm.-Charles-Williams-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rear-Adm.-Charles-Williams-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rear-Adm.-Charles-Williams.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CTF70\/posts\/1671160512908830\">Commander Task Force-70<\/a> reports that Rear Admiral Charles Williams has been fired from his assignment as commander of the Carrier Task Force along with Captain Jeffrey Bennett, commander of the Destroyer Squadron &#8211; 15 (DESRON-15) because Vice Admiral Phil Sawyer, commander of U.S. Seventh Fleet says that he&#8217;s lost confidence in their ability to commander.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/navy-relieves-two-more-commanders-in-7th-fleet-after-deadly-collisions-1.488250\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the loss pf confidence stems from the string of collisions;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In January, the USS Antietam ran aground and spilled roughly 1,100 gallons of hydraulic fluid into Tokyo Bay. In May, the USS Lake Champlain collided with a South Korean fishing boat while operating off the east coast of the divided peninsula. In June, a collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine-flagged merchant ship killed seven sailors. Last month, a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a civilian merchant vessel killed 10 sailors.<\/p>\n<p>The commanding officers of the Antietam and Fitzgerald were relieved of their duties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to W2 for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander Task Force-70 reports that Rear Admiral Charles Williams has been fired from his assignment as &hellip; <a title=\"CTF-70 Commander fired\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74817\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CTF-70 Commander fired<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74817","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=74817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}