The XO who happens to be a Commander, isn’t the Commanding Officer of the unit. They fired the wrong man. The XO should now become the CO.
Yeah, it's weird to me that they put this all on the XO while the CO, it appears, is held blameless for his supposedly lax ship which had poor readiness. If nothing else the CO should have been kicking the XOs ass if this was the real state of the ship.
“The XO who happens to be a Commander, isn’t the Commanding Officer of the unit. They fired the wrong man”....
They fired the wrong man alright, odumbo is the one who allowed this to happen. A REAL CIC would have had those sailors out of their long before the Iranians even knew they were there.