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A commander of the logistics readiness squadron at Osan Air Base, South Korea, has been removed from his post due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead.
A Navy captain who commanded the school that develops aviation technical training has been removed from his job.
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the San Diego-based destroyer Decatur in January for lying to San Diego fleet command about the ship’s position, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday.
A CH-53E squadron commander based out of Okinawa, Japan, was sacked over a lost of trust and confidence, according to the 1st Marine Air Wing.
The battalion commander and battalion sergeant major of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, the unit that lost two rifles in December 2019, were recently relieved for “loss of trust and confidence,” a Marine official confirmed.
The former commander of a Connecticut-based submarine who pleaded guilty last year to a conduct unbecoming an officer charge visited the bedroom window of an enlisted subordinate’s wife, engaged in “inappropriate conversation there” and also sent “inappropriate electronic messages,” on June 11, 2018, according to recently released Navy records
The leader of Marine Training Command, Brig. Gen. Jason Morris, has fired the Navy captain at the helm ofField Medical Training Battalion-West at Camp Pendleton.
The commander of a Marine reserve aerial refueling squadron was relieved from his job in February for “loss of trust and confidence in a his ability to lead,” a Marine Corps spokesman confirmed.
A newly released investigation from a submarine mishap in 2015 that caused some $1 million worth of damage shows that an inexperienced crew was given the go-ahead to complete a tricky return-to-port mission in the dark, despite warnings from the commanding officer that they weren’t ready.
The commander and superintendent of the 647th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam were removed from their positions Wednesday after an investigation, the base said in a Wednesday email.
The Navy cited a loss of confidence in Cmdr. William Bradley Swanbeck’s ability to command the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine Montpelier when he was fired from his job in June 2018.
A Navy one-star was fired from his position at Naval Sea Systems Command last year after investigators determined he had an affair with a female subordinate, according to records obtained by Navy Times.
The commander of Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 225 was relieved of command Jan. 24 following “concerns of poor judgement” the Marine Corps confirmed Thursday.
The ex-commanding officer of a Japan-based Navy warship created a toxic work environment, ordered subordinates to locate his favorite soda and wasted taxpayer dollars on medals he wasn’t authorized to award, according to a recently released Naval Inspector General investigation.
The commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Maj. Gen. William Cooley, was relieved of commandWednesday, Air Force Materiel Command said in a release.
The commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Decatur was fired Thursday after superiors lost confidence in his ability to command, officials say.
The former commander of the 52nd Operations Group at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany was disciplined after an investigation into accusations that he rubbed his crotch against the rear end of a lieutenant colonel’s wife at a dinner last year.
SAN DIEGO — Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter submitted his resignation Tuesday, one month after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, leaving vacant one of the GOP’s few remaining House seats in heavily Democratic California.
The official, Guy Roberts, was the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs — as well as a former Marine Corps infantry officer, judge advocate and staff officer.
The Navy fired the leader of a California-based explosive ordnance disposal unit Thursday, citing “a loss of confidence in his ability to command.”
An Army deputy chief of staff has been retired at a lower rank after a watchdog investigation found he had plagiarized work for his master’s degree at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a lieutenant colonel, Military.com has learned.
There are good leaders and bad leaders, and then there are leaders whose command climates are so toxic and humiliating that they make deployments seem like a cakewalk. Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy II was in the third category, according to a recent Inspector General report.
Subordinates were “walking on eggshells” to avoid upsetting him, according to a March 2019 IG report.
An inspector general report released Thursday found Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin, former commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, failed to maintain a healthy command climate, and broke multiple travel regulations.
The commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Hopper was fired last year after his shipboard romance with a petty officer was revealed, according to an internal investigation obtained by Navy Times.
A nurse at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a criminal health care fraud scheme, in which she accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks for referring patients to pharmacies offering compounded drugs.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A former faculty member at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, has pleaded not guilty to engaging in sex with a minor and other charges.
Ronald Zenga, previously of Middletown, faces a federal indictment that alleges he took a minor across state lines and another country for sex.
But in that time, the CO allegedly forced his subordinates to write his fitness reports, outlawed the mention of his predecessor’s name, provoked a panic attack in his secretary, tried to “voluntell” sailors into community service projects and seemed to harbor little knowledge about the basics of his command’s cyber mission, according to an internal investigation obtained by Navy Times.
Lt. Col. Jason Moehle, the commander of the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Misawa Air Base in Japan who oversaw maintenance of its famed “Wild Weasel” F-16s, was relieved of his duties Monday.
Two months after assuming command of the Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group 2, Rear Adm. Erik M. Ross was fired Friday in connection to an “alleged off-duty incident,”
Two Air Force bases on Monday announced the removal of squadron commanders in separate incidents.
F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming on Monday announced that Lt. Col. Nicholas Petren had been relieved of command of the 90th Security Forces Squadron there. In another release, Moody Air Force Base in Georgia announced that Lt. Col. Scott Rein had been relieved of command of the 41st Rescue Squadron.
Officials with Air Force Global Strike Command’s 90th Missile Wing announced Monday that Col. Damian Schlussel, commander of the 90th Security Forces Group, relieved Lt. Col. Nicholas Petren, head of the 90th SFS, “due to a loss of confidence” in his leadership.
In the wake of a series of scandals dogging California-based SEAL Team 7, the entire senior leadership team was relieved of duty on Friday morning.
A Virginia-based Navy officer is facing a court-martial trial for allegedly making “nonconsensual sexual contact” with a sailor and a soldier, according to Navy charge sheets.
Less than three months after he took command of the guided-missile cruiser Antietam, Capt. Tadd Gorman was relieved of command Tuesday.
No really it is not the same article as the one below…The Navy on Monday relieved the executive officer of the fast attack submarine Jimmy Carter, due to what officials called “a loss of confidence in his personal judgment.”
“The Navy is investigating questions that have arisen with respect to Lt. Cmdr. (Jonathan) Cebik’s personal conduct,”
The executive officer of the Japan-based warship McCampbell has been relieved of duty.
The guided-missile destroyer’s XO since February, Lt. Cmdr. Randall Clemons was removed “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to fulfill his responsibilities,” Task Force 70spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Matt Knight said in an email to Navy Times.
Lt. Gen. Brad Becker, the commander of Army Installation Management Command, has been relieved of command, service officials said Thursday afternoon
After a rough couple of months for special operations scandals in the news, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command is opening up a review into the entire command’s culture and ethics, according to a memo released Monday.
Lt. Col. Pete Leija was removed from command of the 317th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas Monday morning.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — The military says a U.S. Air Force Academy cadet who was charged with sexual misconduct has pleaded guilty to assault.
Rear Adm. Stephen Williamson was relieved Friday as the director of industrial operations at Naval Sea Systems Command following an investigation into what officials said as an inappropriate relationship.
The vice commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy has been relieved from his post after a traffic stop led to a drunken-driving charge.
A former member of SEAL Team 1 in San Diego has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for child molestation on Tuesday, which comes on top of a previous federal sentence of 27 years he’s currently serving for manufacturing child porn in Virginia.
A Marine brigadier general who was alleged to have “disparaged, bullied and humiliated subordinates, devalued women” while he ran the Corps’ legislative affairs has received administrative reprimand. (More here as well)
A special operations commander’s decision to remove a Navy SEAL platoon from Iraq centered around allegations that a senior enlisted member of the team raped a female comrade, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Col. Kathryn A. Spletstoser of the Army says she had returned to her hotel room and was putting on face cream on the night of Dec. 2, 2017, after a full day at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in California, when her boss, Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, the commander of United States Strategic Command, knocked on her door and said he wanted to talk to her.
An ongoing Navy probe to catch the culprit who catfished women into sending nude photos shines a light on the normally shadowy world of SEAL Team 6, one of America’s most secretive commando units — but the suspected sailor says they got the wrong man.
Dana White, the former Pentagon spokesman under Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, misused her subordinates’ time to run errands for her during and after work hours, according to a new investigation report.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Hardcastle, 31, was arrested on Monday amid allegations he was soliciting girls as young 10 for sex.
A groundbreaking female fighter pilot was fired from her current job as director of the Defense Department’s Special Access Programs Central Office — which manages and oversees some of the military’s most secretive classified programs — and is under several inspector general investigations.
NEWPORT, R.I. — The military is investigating the president of the U.S. Naval War College amid allegations that he spent excessively, abused his hiring authority and otherwise behaved inappropriately, including keeping a margarita machine in his office.
A chief was convicted for using illegal drugs last month and busted down to E-5, according to legal records. Chief Aviation Machinist’s Mate Mark W. Dean pleaded guilty at a special court-martial trial to using marijuana and cocaine on May 11, 2018 and his grade reduction was the only penalty he received, records indicate.
A Navy captain who brought wine, a piggy bank and condoms to a purported sleepover with an adolescent he met at a Naples base library was properly found guilty of attempting to sexually abuse and assault a child, the Navy’s appellate court ruled.
Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten, who has led the Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev., since July 2017, was relieved of command on June 2 due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to command,” according to an Air Combat Command release. ACC boss Gen. Mike Holmes made the decision based on an “alleged unprofessional relationship,” according to the command’s initial statement.
Brig. Gen. Brenda Cartier, now the director of operations at Air Force Special Operations Command headquarters at Hurlburt Field, Florida, received a letter of counseling after an inspector general investigation found she failed to treat subordinates with dignity and respect in her previous position, and falsely claimed flight hours on an MC-130J in 2017.
- The commander of the Marine Corps’ 1st Reconnaissance Battalion was over “credible” allegations of domestic violence, according to a sworn statement by his wife.
- It is unclear whether Lt. Col. Francisco Zavala will remain in the Corps, but his is the fourth high-profile firing of a senior Marine officer in recent weeks.
The senior enlisted leader of a California helicopter squadron was relieved of duty on Friday, Navy officials said.
Command Master Chief Brian Todd Morris was removed from his post at Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 4 due to “a loss of confidence in his ability to perform the duties of a command master chief,” according to Naval Air Forces spokesman Cmdr. Ronald Flanders.
A California-based Navy officer is facing a court-martial trial for allegedly masturbating at his desk and “entering search terms indicative of child pornography” on his work computer, according to charge sheets.
The former commander of the 49th Medical Support Squadron at Holloman Air Force Basein New Mexico will face a civilian trial later this month over accusations of possessing virtual child pornography, and will also be court-martialed in August.
The commanding officer for the Camp Pendleton, California, based 1st Reconnaissance Battalion was relieved of his command on Tuesday, the Marine Corps has announced.
Lt. Col. Francisco X. Zavala is the fourth Marine commander in recent weeks to be sacked.
The commander of the 1st Marine Division, Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, relieved Zavala over “lost trust and confidence” in his ability to continue to lead 1st Recon battalion, a press release stated.
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