{"id":74973,"date":"2017-09-26T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74973"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:05:57","slug":"admiral-scott-swift-chooses-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74973","title":{"rendered":"Admiral Scott Swift chooses retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Navy\u2019s Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Scott Swift announced his retirement, and the Navy Times<\/a> speculates that it was because he was passed over for promotion. Those collisions in the Pacific Rim are causing quite a shakeup among flag officers;<\/p>\n

Adm. Scott Swift\u2019s announcement, made in a posting to Pacific Fleet\u2019s website, marks the latest departure for regional and surface force commands in the wake of two fatal destroyer collisions this summer that killed 17 sailors.<\/p>\n

Navy officials confirmed last week that Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, the three-star in command of Naval Surface Force, would put in for early retirement, but declined to offer further details.<\/p>\n

Also last week, newly installed 7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Phillip Sawyer fired Task Force 70 commander Rear Adm. Charles Williams and Destroyer Squadron 15 head Capt. Jeffrey Bennett.<\/p>\n

The destroyers Fitzgerald and John S. McCain, involved in the fatal collisions this summer less than two months apart, were overseen by those two units.<\/p>\n

Before that, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was fired as head of 7th Fleet just days after the McCain disaster in August.<\/p>\n

In Monday\u2019s statement, Swift said the service\u2019s top officer, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, had informed him that he would not become the next commander of U.S. Pacific Command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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