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Navy officer fired over Iran's detention of 10 sailors.
Associated Press/Yahoo News ^ | 05/12/2016 | unknown

Posted on 05/12/2016 7:35:54 PM PDT by Kush

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and were captured and held by Iran for about 15 hours.

In a statement Thursday, the Navy said it had lost confidence in Cmdr. Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the squadron that included the 10 sailors at the time of the January incident. He was responsible for the training and readiness of the more than 400 sailors in the unit.

A Navy official said Rasch failed to provide effective leadership, leading to a lack of oversight, complacency and failure to maintain standards in the unit. The official was not authorized to discuss the details publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: braking; ericrasch; humiliation; iran; irandeal; iranseizesussailors; israel; lebanon; navy; obamasfallguy; putingaveiranthebomb; rasch; roe; russia; sailors; syria; waronterror
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To: pepsi_junkie
Why not blame the JAG that created the ROE that this XO followed?

Except that snakes like JAGs, stick up for each other.

21 posted on 05/12/2016 8:52:59 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Kush

The XO...This is total BS. The captain goes down with the ship.


22 posted on 05/12/2016 8:53:16 PM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: Greenpees

Sadly, in the Obama era military, that isn’t true.

Well, not in the traditional sense.


23 posted on 05/12/2016 8:56:27 PM PDT by M1911A1 (It would have been Hillary vs. Jeb! with no Trump in the race.)
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To: Kush

This is how Obama and political correctness will get soldiers killed.

What were his ROE’s? What would the political hacks in the Pentagon or the White House had done if Cmdr Rasch instead opened fire and sunk the Iranian ships? Obama would be pissing himself with anger at the Navy. I believe the sailors were in a no-win situation caused by their leaders.


24 posted on 05/12/2016 9:16:33 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kush

I wonder if the real story will ever be revealed.


25 posted on 05/12/2016 9:48:25 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Kush

This C.I.C is above the law.


26 posted on 05/12/2016 10:15:44 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Kush

They fired the EXECUTIVE Officer, but not the commanding officer?
Not Obola’s admiral in charge of the area?
Not the squadron (next higher) commanding officer?


27 posted on 05/12/2016 11:18:26 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: terycarl

brotherhoods @DC must have tipped off their coordinates...


28 posted on 05/12/2016 11:32:08 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: Kush

You can’t fire anyone in the military but when you do a search o Cmdr. Eric Rasch every damn article says fired.


29 posted on 05/13/2016 2:05:10 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Kush

Damn, you beat me to it. I too felt the statement fit odumbo to a “T” yet he remains at his post and nothing is said.


30 posted on 05/13/2016 3:30:16 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Trumpinator

“Firing means out of the navy or demoted but still in the navy”?.........

I take it to mean he has been relieved of duty as the “commander” of that particular group. Most definitely it will be the end of his career, he might as well resign.


31 posted on 05/13/2016 3:32:18 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Cvengr

“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.


32 posted on 05/13/2016 3:35:02 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Kush

Did he draw the short straw in the lottery to pick Obama’s scapegoat?
In the Navy that I was in, the Commanding Officer, is ALWAYS responsible, not the XO.


33 posted on 05/13/2016 4:30:16 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Bogie

Did they not have a COMPASS?


34 posted on 05/13/2016 6:54:44 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Revolutionary

Certainly possible.

Two options:

1. The military leaders were so smart as to plan a mission where our guys get captured on purpose so they can gather intelligence.

or

2. The military leaders are just incompetent.


35 posted on 05/13/2016 7:00:37 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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