This is the lead ship that has done some amazing missile defense Aegis shots, including IIRC, the shoot-down of the rogue satellite a few years ago.
Been a while, and if the Lake Erie is a San Diego ship now and not Pearl Harbor, likely he is a new skipper.
He has been on the ship since 2011, in command since May 2013, so he is no newby. He fleeted up from XO, a common practice these days. In fact, unless command tours have increased greatly since I retired, he most likely was due to be relieved soon anyway. So whatever happened (and poor command climate could mean any number of things) it was serious enough that they didn’t just let him slip quietly out the door.
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