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Posted on 06/04/2026 7:47:32 AM PDT by chajin
Capt. Wendel Penetrante, Capt. Edwin Catubig and Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Dean Howell were relieved on Wednesday. No specific reason for their firing has been given.
The commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted leader of a Navy ship repair facility in Yokosuka, Japan, have been fired, service officials announced on Wednesday.
Capt. Wendel Penetrante, Capt. Edwin Catubig and Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Dean Howell were relieved of their duties on Wednesday as commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief, respectively, a Navy news release says.
They were all assigned to the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center, which provides intermediate-level and depot-level repair for Navy ships and U.S. 7th Fleet.
Navy officials said the three were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command” but provided no further details on the exact reason for their firings.
Military services often attribute such firings to “loss of confidence” rather than providing the exact reason why officers and senior enlisted leaders have been relieved. The euphemism typically covers a range of reasons for firings, including problems at work and personal issues.
Relief of an entire leadership team is relatively rare.
A May 12 Navy news release lauded the maintenance and repair facility for returning seven ships — two mine countermeasures ships, three destroyers, and an amphibious transport dock — to the 7th Fleet this year “on time or ahead of schedule.”
Penetrante assumed command of the facility on Feb. 3, 2025, according to his official Navy biography. He became an engineering duty officer in 2012 after serving aboard submarines and an aircraft carrier.
Catubig served as an enlisted sailor before being commissioned in 2003, his Navy biography says. He has served aboard an aircraft carrier and amphibious warfare ships.
Howell enlisted in the Navy in 2001 and has served on destroyers and an amphibious assault ship, his biography says.
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Apparently, diversity wasn’t their strength afterall.
So much money spent, so many contracts with locals signed suspect an audit found corruption.
I’m gonna guess ‘corruption’...........Kickbacks and the like.........
FD: My dad was a GS-11 electronics man at Yokosuka NB during the height of the Vietnam War, split his time among SRF, 67 shop, and carriers, with TDYs sprinkled in. In my old age, I would still love to be on base to hear the scuttlebutt as to what actually happened.
Malingerers’ and malcontents!
Is that really the Captain’s last name; Wendel Penetrante?
‘Captain Penetrate?’ My inner Bevis & Butthead is at it again.
Of course, the same leftist press that point to every female fired as evidence of discrimination will ignore the fact that all three of these are male.
The whole chain of command
I’ll take a wild guess.
Someone was doing something they shouldn’t have been doing and someone else tried covering it up rather than dealing with it .
Just a guess.
ROAD - retired on active duty.
Not a common surname, mostly Filipino via Spain
Navy relieves commanding, executive officers of Naval Repair Station Japan
Something in the water over there ?
Covert diddling.
“The commanding officer, the executive officer and the command master chief of U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) were relieved June 3, 2026, due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command.”
In the military, a “loss of confidence” is a formal, catch-all term used by senior leadership to immediately relieve a commanding officer or executive from their duties. It signifies that superiors no longer trust the leader’s ability to maintain good order, discipline, or mission readiness. My guess it was spearheaded by locals and discipline problems. Seems if the local area has a complaint, or a few on this one, someone has to be axed. Normally they go after a soon retiring senior NCO unless it violates the UCMJ. And many times when the skit hits the fan someone retires, or commits suicide.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260522/p2a/00m/0na/006000c
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“Is that really the Captain’s last name; Wendel Penetrante?
‘Captain Penetrate?’ “
They should have KEPT the rule only allowing straight people in the military.
They were male, but Asian, Black, and White goes fit the DEI acceptable pattern.
Probably a graft and corruption ring.
Yes. Several years ago, one of the guys in charge of repairs there in the Pacific got caught getting kickbacks from a Hong Kong guy.
See the Fat Leonard scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal
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