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Old 05-14-2008, 07:58 AM
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3 commanding officers fired in one week

‘Loss of confidence’ cited in relief of air wing, fighter squadron, civil affairs group skippers
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Posted : Tuesday May 13, 2008 1547 EDT

One Japan-based carrier air wing skipper and two Hampton Roads, Va.-area commanding officers were fired the week of May 4 due to “loss of confidence” in their ability to command.

On May 5, Cmdr. Raymond B. Worthington was relieved of duty as commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 143, an F/A-18 Super Hornet squadron. Four days later, Capt. Kenneth J. Schwingshakl, commanding officer of the Maritime Civil Affairs Group, was relieved. Also on May 9, Capt. Michael P. McNellis, commander of the Japan-based Carrier Air Wing 5, was sacked.

McNellis commanded the air wing aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. He was relieved by Rear Adm. Richard Wren, commander of Task Force 70, during a nonjudicial proceeding, according to a news release. McNellis was replaced by Capt. Michael White, the wing's former deputy commander. The news release did not give a reason for the relief.

Unit’s first CO
Rear Adm. Mike Tillotson, commander of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, relieved Schwingshakl after an internal investigation concluded he had “misused his command authority,” said Lt. Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde, a spokeswoman for NECC.

Schwingshakl was temporarily reassigned to NECC.

NECC’s training officer, Capt. Bob McKenna, has temporarily taken command, according to a Navy announcement. The unit is based at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Va.

The civil affairs group was established March 30, 2007, and comprises more than 300 sailors. The group was created to help the Navy work with foreign officials in maritime tasks such as port management, channel construction and other such jobs.

Schwingshakl was the unit’s first CO.

‘An administrative matter’
Naval Air Forces Atlantic spokesman Mike Maus would not say what caused Carrier Air Wing 7 commander Capt. Scott Stearney to lose confidence in Worthington. He said no further administrative or disciplinary actions are being taken at this time, and he would not say whether an investigation was underway.

“Any discussion on that would be inappropriate, but the decision to relieve Commander Worthington was strictly an administrative matter,” Maus said May 6.

Worthington has been temporarily assigned to Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic. Cmdr. Jake Elzey has temporarily assumed command of VFA-143.

VFA-143, the “Pukin’ Dogs,” last deployed aboard the carrier Eisenhower in 2006 and 2007, conducting operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and off the coast of Somalia.

The squadron continues normal training operations, Maus said.
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Old 05-14-2008, 05:05 PM
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Another one fired Boats

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former military aide to President George H.W. Bush, who later became commander of the U.S. 6th Fleet, has been fired for providing "false and misleading" information to the Department of Defense inspector general, the U.S. Navy confirmed Monday.

Vice Adm. John "Boomer" Stufflebeem was relieved of duty by the chief of naval operations on Friday, according to Rear Adm. Frank Thorp, the chief Navy spokesman.

Navy Times, a privately published newspaper, was the first to report details of the incident.

Thorp confirmed the inspector general had begun a preliminary investigation into an allegation that Stufflebeem had an "inappropriate relationship" while serving as a military aide to the former president in 1990.

Thorp emphasized to CNN that Stufflebeem was removed because the inspector general found he had provided "false and misleading" information, not because of the allegation.

Thorp also confirmed that in 1999, the inspector general had investigated the same allegation, but at that time did not find sufficient evidence to pursue it.

Stufflebeem became well known in the initial months of the war in Afghanistan, when he often conducted on-camera television briefings as a Pentagon spokesman. He was then deputy director for global operations on the Joint Staff.

He was commander of the 6th Fleet from May 2005 to September 2007. During that time, he also was deputy commander of Naval Forces Europe, joint force maritime component commander in Europe, commander of strike and support forces for NATO, and allied commander with Joint Command Lisbon.

After returning to Washington, he became director of Navy staff.
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May 11, 2007
Russian Air Force Commander Fired
Russian Air Force chief Vladimir Mikhailov has been dismissed from his post, a source the Defense Ministry said Thursday. This is the second shakeup in top military ranks after the appointment of Anatoly Serdyukov as Defense Minister. Experts say that the longtime commander was dismissed because his activities did little to help revamp the Air Force.
General Vladimir Mikhailov, 63, was replaced by one of his deputies, Colonel General Alexander Zelin, the Interfax news agency reported quoting an unidentified source in the Defense Ministry. Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov has taken over as head of the Main Staff from Colonel General Boris Cheltsov who has also been dismissed. Lieutenant General Khvorov formerly served as the commander of long-range aviation.

The Defense Ministry’s press service would not comment the reports.

Since Gen. Mikhailov turned 60, the maximum age for active-duty senior commanders, President Putin has extended his service three times. “But the age has apparently become the main reason for his dismissal,” a source in the Defense Ministry told Kommersant.

The shakeup in the Air Force follows the recent surprise appointment of former Tax Service head Anatoly Serdyukov as the country’s Defense Ministry.

A Kommersant source in the Russian military industry suggested that Vladimir Mikhail was dismissed after he had evidently failed to overcome a slump in the Air Force and step efforts to modernize the troops.
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