Posted on 09/17/2014 12:01:40 PM PDT by 7thson
The three top leaders of the guided missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG-95) have been removed and reassigned halfway through the ship's deployment pending the outcome of an investigation into "command climate," the Navy said in a news release Tuesday.
The skipper, Cmdr. Curtis B. Calloway, was relieved at sea by Capt. Anthony L. Simmons, who will take charge of the ship for the rest of the deployment as an investigation moves forward. Calloway, along with Cmdr. Ed Handley, the executive officer, and Command Master Chief Travis Biswell, the top enlisted leader, have been reassigned to staff positions at Naval Surface Force Atlantic.
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prolly peed while standing up!
Why should the Admiral resign? What did he do wrong? Sometimes commanders and their subordinates do very stupid things. That demand removal. Maybe they had perfectly clean records before.
Commanders yes but not the top three. Something here smacks of PC violations.
“Probably refused to let ..... a queer do his/her thing.”
Ummm....it’s the Navy. Craig Clayborne, NYT food editor, was the mistress for his ship’s captain in WW2.
There was a link in the comments to a story about a young female sailor suicide on the ship earlier.
Really?
Onshore tours included time as the Antiterrorism/ Force Protection Officer at Commander DESRON 2 and Naval Surface Fire Support section head in the Surface Warfare division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV).
Before taking command of Williams’, Calloway was, “Surface Warfare division of the Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, where he was the Operational Test Director for the DDG-1000 program and a Special Projects Officer,” read the bio.
Unless there were several (like six or eight) paragraphs omitted from the biographical excerpt, Calloway's at-sea experience was pathetically weak for a DDG command assignment.
“Fair enough. Do you know of ANY commander relieved in the past 6 years for pathetic political reasons? I’m not aware of any (doesn’t mean there aren’t some)”
http://nachumlist.com/officersrelieved.htm
Some on that list bother me, while others lack sufficient information or the information is ambiguous. I know for certain that some reliefs were in response to a lack of enthusiasm for political correctness (gays in particular). I also assume that at least some on the list had real reasons, I’m just skeptical that a real reason would be as well hidden as some of the justifications seem to be.
Good find. Suicide certainly reflects on Command Climate. I would imagine a weak investigation could easily trigger leadership changes at the top.
Climate change claims another victim...
I’m sure they were replaced with Obama’s picked men who WILL fire on American citizens if ordered.
In today’s politically correct environment, everyone assumes they are being set up for no good reason a lot like the cop in Ferguson. That is why we are defending them we are defending them right away.
I recently finished a 9 month cruise on a Navy destroyer where no less than a dozen sailors went to mast, mostly for sexual relations.
I suspect if the whole Triad gets relieved, there was a failure to properly administer discipline and I'd guess sex was involved and chiefs were involved.
Our Captain set the standard very early on, making it clear that if you had to stand tall before him, you'd lose a chevron and receive a "not recommended for retention" eval. He sent a Senior Chief with 18 years in the navy home packing. He busted a frocked Chief with 17 years in down to E-5.
And yet sailors kept screwing up. So many people were getting in trouble, junior sailors, chiefs and officers alike, that every time we pulled into port, we joked that we'd get a new Triad as soon as the ship was tied-down pier side. It never happened, in part because our Captain busted down everyone who screwed up and put on liberty risk everyone who came within a mile of screwing up.
It is unfortunate that the navy chooses to be hush-hush on details leading to grand conspiracy theories of a purge or some political motivation. It almost never is. In the old navy, troublemakers were dealt with at the lowest possible level. In today's navy, everything goes straight to the top -and if the guys at the top choose not to administer discipline, they are putting their careers on line.
Where did you hear about this?
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
They got a lot of complaints on the command climate survey is what I heard.
AGAIN??? Didn’t this just happen recently, where the CO basically retired to his stateroom for the rest of the cruise and there was purported hanky panky with his female XO who was running the ship?
Active Duty ping.
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