The allegations refer specifically to the period when McWherter served as Blue Angels commanding officer, from November 2008 to November 2010 and again from May 2011 to November 2012.This guys sounds all American to me. He was probably sharing real life info about his tours of duty and the need to treat the radical Islamics like the enemies they are...or standing up for the constitution and urging his subordinates to do the same. But you never know. We'll have to wait to see what they actually charge him with.
The probe, led by an admiral who the Navy declined to identify, began in March and results from a complaint filed by one person.
McWherter has been temporarily reassigned to Naval Air Forces in San Diego. A call seeking comment from McWherter was not immediately returned.
An Atlanta native and graduate of The Citadel, McWherter is an F/A-18 pilot with multiple tours in combat squadrons, including three deployments aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, according to U-T San Diego.
He is a graduate of the Navy's Fighter Weapons School, known as Top Gun, and won the 2003 Commander Naval Air Forces Leadership Award. He was also VFA-131's Pilot of the Year in 1996.
Allegations from a single person do not normally lead to such a removal unless they have some hard proof...or, IMHO, unless it is a political witch hunt.
With the proggs now in charge my guess would be political witch hunt.
Doubt it's a political with hunt, despite the wishes among so many here that this would be the case.
"Inappropriate command climate" leads me to believe that misconduct took place at the lower levels and this Skipper was caught sweeping stuff under the rug. If I were a betting man with absolutely no inside knowledge of this case, I'd say proper maintenance procedures weren't being complied with and it was someone at the maintenance level who dimed him out with gundecked paperwork as the evidence.
Having affair(s)?
Sounds like a female took offense to something. “Command climate” is usually shorthand for something that is either Racist, Religious or Heterosexual — although as others have pointed out, it could be almost anything.
There you have it, what is completely B.S. about the modern pro-homo military. One twit with a grievance can bring most anyone down.