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Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron
msn ^ | 4-11-25

Posted on 04/12/2025 6:54:00 AM PDT by nuconvert

Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced.

Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brettrobblee; dei; felixphillips; military; navy; usnavy; virginia; virginiabeach
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1 posted on 04/12/2025 6:54:00 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Ah ha, obviously the insubordination was not just Greenland commander.


2 posted on 04/12/2025 6:58:16 AM PDT by dforest
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To: nuconvert

Fraternization?

CC


3 posted on 04/12/2025 6:59:04 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: nuconvert

Makes one wonder how these two were promoted repeatedly to commanding ranks ...


4 posted on 04/12/2025 6:59:11 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: nuconvert

A lot of bad people have been moving up in the system since at least 2008. I’m happy to see problems getting cleared out.


5 posted on 04/12/2025 6:59:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: nuconvert

bkmk


6 posted on 04/12/2025 7:01:59 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: nuconvert

Re-assigned. Not “fired”. Opportunity for early retirement. They’re as high as they’ll go now.


7 posted on 04/12/2025 7:02:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: nuconvert

It should be noted that “fired” doesn’t mean the same thing in the Navy as it does in the private sector.

They won’t be kicked out of the Navy, just reassigned somewhere with more than likely a lot less responsibility.....having said that, it’s not good that this removal will be a permanent part of their military record and I’m sure will affect any future consideration for advancement.


8 posted on 04/12/2025 7:02:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: rktman; V_TWIN

“They have both been temporarily reassigned to the staff at Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. “


9 posted on 04/12/2025 7:08:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

That crossed my mind also


10 posted on 04/12/2025 7:09:45 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

Hegseth is picking up firing incompetent, far-left commanders right where Joe Pedo left off. Pedo was firing them every day also. I think the failure is hiring non-military types to run units. Trannies, DEI graduates, etc. Boneheads.


11 posted on 04/12/2025 7:11:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS! The Party of Murderers, Assassins and Baby Killers. )
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To: ClearCase_guy
(since at least 2008)

ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN





12 posted on 04/12/2025 7:14:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bingo.


13 posted on 04/12/2025 7:14:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATS! The Party of Murderers, Assassins and Baby Killers. )
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To: nuconvert

It’s never good to have a Navy Change of Command without Music and Lumpia!


14 posted on 04/12/2025 7:17:45 AM PDT by Keyga8tor ( )
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To: nuconvert

I believe the proper term is not fired, but rather relieved from duty, and most likely demoted in the process.


15 posted on 04/12/2025 7:20:19 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: nuconvert

I reluctantly followed the link.

“Robblee assumed command of the squadron in June and Phillips reported to the unit in October. They have both been temporarily reassigned to the staff at Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.”


16 posted on 04/12/2025 7:20:58 AM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: nuconvert

Felix…yeah ok


17 posted on 04/12/2025 7:23:51 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: nuconvert

Two communist (democrats). One is a flaming degenerate homosexual and the other is a pygmy cannibal.

These types are subversive hacks sucking off the government teat while pretending to serve in the military. They should be in a Las Vegas whorehouse, serving the customers. /spit


18 posted on 04/12/2025 7:25:00 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: nuconvert

We need to have a beater noisy non-nuclear sub just for these “reassigned” staff.

It should travel around the world over and over and never see port again....

If the Russians or Chinese decide it is time for target practice—well this is the government and accidents happen...

Lol.


19 posted on 04/12/2025 7:25:20 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: glennaro

“Makes one wonder how these two were promoted repeatedly to commanding ranks ...”

I don’t wonder at all. Select groups have been getting unfairly promoted for at least a few decades, just to make sure certain stated or unstated quotas or goals were met. I saw long ago that rank or position doesn’t necessarily equate to competence.


20 posted on 04/12/2025 7:30:17 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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