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"I want to be on the record. Commander Mooney is one of the good guys, and I would proudly go to sea with him. This is an outrageous injustice, and I have absolutely no sense of humor about this."

You are right in what has been published, however, there may be reasons we may never know why the Navy decided to do this.
But this commander did a heck of a job when crunch time came. He deserves a medal for that.
But like I said, there may be some unexpained reasons why he is being relieved.

[July 4th]

unexpained reasons why he is being relieved.

The other link says there may have been "discolored water" on one of the older charts.

Either way, the result of all of this was highly predictable the moment after the accident. No matter who's fault the accident, the commander gets the axe.

[taxesareforever]

there may be reasons we may never know why the Navy decided to do this.

Yeah, there's always reasons. However, a lot of them are just plain assinine. This skipper should be commended for his handling of the situation but that is not the Navy's way. There way is, an accident you are history. End of story.