Navy fires 5 officers in less than a month

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. I believe that protocols from decades past are the best because they kept a lid on sensitive activity. Transparency has its place but for the sake of national security details if an officers firing should be held close to the chest.

I tend to think that in an service any job for that matter there sometimes reaches a point that a person reaches a level beyond their ability to perform the duties of. That tend to catch up with them but by them the damage has already been done. I can think of some that I know that were relieved of Command or other duties put out to pasture or in many case forced to retire or otherwise leave the service. Usually both their own Commanders as well as theirs troops were both well aware of the problem and it had to end and did. This isn't just a recent trend, there have always been some that just didn't measure up and for the good of the service removed from their positions. One case tha comes to mind is a Commander and His Operations Officer Who were both relieved by a Lt. General in their chain of Command and ordered not to even set foot in their former duty section for any reason at all. The were given a cube in another building with no duties to perform pending their removal from the service, the Commander being forced to retire. Another Commander after a congressional Investigation team flew into the base with Him as the subject of their investigation they decide He had to go and in three days He was no longer a Military service Member. Most the Commanders I had were fine and were outstanding officers, these were the exceptions who did NOT belong there.

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. I spent 23+ years in the Navy (1966-1990), and went from E-1 and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 3. I served 14 of those years in Sea duty and the remainder was served at shore commands in a training status or in an operational shore command status. I never saw any one fired in that time. But, It was a much different Navy in my time than today's Navy. Early in my career, many of my superiors were WWII Vets or Korean war Vets and or Vietnam war Vets, of which the later I too proudly can say I was a Veteran. In my my Military service, I also witnessed the "Cold War" with Russia. A war that had the potential to go "Hot" at any instant in time. After, my retirement I stayed in touch with many of my old shipmates, and I was told that I would not have been a happy sailor in the "New Navy". I am very happy I retired when I did, and I still follow what the Navy is like today, and I am not happy with what I see and hear from my "Old Shipmates" that served long after I retired, nor do I like what I hear from "Today's" sailors about what is going on in the "New Navy"!