Navy FIRES all three leaders of Seabees
battalion 'due to a loss of confidence
in their abilities to effectively perform
their leadership roles'
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/7/2022 10:25:00 PM
The US Navy has relieved a triad command team of its duties, citing 'a loss of confidence' in the leaders' abilities but refusing to elaborate on the circumstances that led to the dismissals. Commanding officer Captain Jeffrey Lengkeek—a Stanford-trained civil engineer who joined the Navy's civil engineer corps in 1996—was among the unit leaders let go February 3. Also fired were executive officer Commander Michael Jarosz, and Commander Master Chief Matthew Turner. The men led the Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 in Little Creek, Virginia and played 'a major role in maritime prepositioning force operations,' according to a press release. The shakeup will have no impact on the mission
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What's the mission of the US Navy? Pushing Gay Pride? Letting ships catch fire and become unsalvageable wrecks, crashing ships and submarines, botching F-35 landings and losing the aircraft in the sea for China to retrieve?