Navy warship commander relieved of duty after embarrassing photo Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the USS John McCain, was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward. Sep 4, 2024 Navy rescues woman, daughter, pets from boat amid approaching hurricane ...
Capt. Zaldy Valenzuela, former commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center in Yokosuka, Japan, and his executive officer were relieved of command over the weekend. (U.S. Navy) The Navy fired both the commanding and executive office...
The Navy last week said the Fitzgerald’s captain was being relieved of his command and other sailors were being punished after poor seamanship and flaws in keeping watch were found to have contributed to its collision. An investigation into how and why the Fitzgerald collided with the other shi...
by John Konrad (gCaptain) The U.S. Navy is facing a lawsuit over allegations of a senior engineering officer’s rape by the captain of the USNS Carson City, a Spearhead-class expeditionary...
Vietnam on March 4 for a five-day visit. Captain Bret Crozier was relieved of command after writing a 'request for assistance' letter regardingCOVID-19cases aboard ship on March 30. The real story behind the dismissal of Captain Crozier is that the ship should never have been sent to Viet...
One of the young officers was the 24 year old Captain of the 12 Gun Schooner USS Enterprise Lieutenant Stephen Decatur the son of a Navy Captain who had entered the Naval service as a Midshipman in 1798 and who had risen rapidly through the ranks due to his abilities and leadership. He ...
The U.S. Navy's top officials recommended that the captain relieved of duty after sounding the alarms of a growing coronavirus outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier should be reinstated. The decision to reinstate Navy Capt. Brett Crozier's command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt sit...
The story of the814th Hospital Centerbegan some weeks before its activation (1 Jan 45).Colonel Emery E. Alling, O-16545, MC,(CO > 48th General Hospital), was relieved of his command on 18 December 1944 and ordered to proceed to the United Kingdom Base to study the Hospital Centers es...
They soon succeeded the small number of F3D-1’s built, with the first aircraft being flown in February 1951. The first of the new F3D-1 Skyknights took flight on February 13th of 1950, with the Navy accepting the first deliveries, which were then turned over to Composite Squadron VC-...
Colonel Augustus Van Horne Ellis who before being killed at Devil’s Den told his staff“the men must see us today;”and the young Elon Farnsworth, who had been promoted from Captain to Brigadier General just days before his death in a senseless ordered by his division commander Judson “Kil...