{"id":88748,"date":"2019-07-08T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88748"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:05:14","slug":"top-navy-admiral-to-retire-vs-accept-top-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88748","title":{"rendered":"Top Navy Admiral to Retire vs. Accept Top Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/william-moran-ap-mo-20190708_hpMain_16x9_608.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88749 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/william-moran-ap-mo-20190708_hpMain_16x9_608-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/william-moran-ap-mo-20190708_hpMain_16x9_608-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/william-moran-ap-mo-20190708_hpMain_16x9_608-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/william-moran-ap-mo-20190708_hpMain_16x9_608.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A top Navy Admiral who was destined for the nations top officer is retiring instead according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/gma\/admiral-become-navys-top-officer-retire-instead-citing-054701955.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"19\">Confirmed by the Senate on May 23, Moran, a four-star admiral, was highly regarded and already serving as the deputy chief of naval operations, the Navy&#8217;s No. 2 admiral. He was slated to become the next chief of naval operations on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"21\">&#8220;Adm. Bill Moran recently brought to my attention that over the past two years he maintained a professional relationship with an individual who was held accountable and counseled for failing to meet the values and standards of the Naval profession,&#8221; said Spencer in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"22\">&#8220;While I admire his faithful service and commitment to the Navy, this decision on his part to maintain that relationship has caused me to call his judgment into question,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Therefore, today I accepted Adm. Moran\u2019s request to retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"23\">Moran admitted to continuing the relationship with the investigated officer, but said he didn&#8217;t approve of his actions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\">To be frank, I&#8217;m not sure what all of the above refers to.\u00a0 \u00a0But I a few minutes later, my joy was made full by finding the missing piece of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\">Servello was\u00a0<span class=\"safe-search-status-good\" data-security-check=\"1562600912-35\">investigated<\/span> by the Department of Defense&#8217;s inspector general for his actions during and after a 2016 Navy Christmas party, where dressed in a Santa suit, he slapped a woman\u2019s backside and later made sexual advances on female junior officers. At the time of the incident, Servello was serving as the top spokesman for Adm. John Richardson, the Navy&#8217;s chief of Naval Operations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\">I&#8217;m guessing it was the sexual transgressions and not the fact that he was dressed as Santa Claus, but it could have been both.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\">Years ago, the thing was photocopying one&#8217;s private parts on the office copier.\u00a0 Although I don&#8217;t condone this, I never heard of any top officers being tossed over associating with someone that did this.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m qualified to be on the board to decide where the line is drawn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-reactid=\"23\">&#8220;OK, here is a case where he photocopied his genitals on the office copier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-reactid=\"23\">&#8220;Did he mail or otherwise provide those images to coworkers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;No, not that we know of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-reactid=\"23\">&#8220;Next case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-reactid=\"23\">&#8220;St. Patrick&#8217;s Day office party.\u00a0 Someone dancing around in a Leprechaun suit asking women if they&#8217;d like to try his Lucky Charms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-reactid=\"23\">&#8220;Suggest he retire so he can spend more time with his family.\u00a0 Next case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Navy Admiral who was destined for the nations top officer is retiring instead according &hellip; <a title=\"Top Navy Admiral to Retire vs. Accept Top Post\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88748\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Navy Admiral to Retire vs. Accept Top Post<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":88749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88748","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90483,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88748\/revisions\/90483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}