Seventh Fleet commander relieved in the wake of ship collisions

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Walked the plank …
A Toru Hanai photo

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Seventh Fleet commander relieved in the wake of ship collisions.

 

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said that it had removed Seventh Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin after the latest in a series of four collisions involving U.S. warships in Pacific this year.

 

While more typically the captain of a U. S. Navy ship involved in a collusion is the one under fire – and one report states that three senior officers on this latest struck ship were relieved of duty, Admiral Aucion come up from the ranks as a navigator and such poses obvious potential bases for his month early relief as the commander of the Seventh Fleet.

 

Listing to port on the way back into port
A Specialist Joshua Fulton/US Navy photo via Getty Images

In any event, this latest collision involved the USS John S. McCain.  The McCain is named for father and son admirals who were the grandfather and father of U.S. Senator John S. McCain III.

 

North Korea’s stumpy threat to peace
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This is the second collusion in two months involving a Seventh Fleet Arleigh Burke class destroyer and which are equipped with the Aegis anti-ballistic missile system. 

 

Given the most recent round of threats by the long bellicose North Korea, U.S. Navy ships with the Aegis anti-ballistic missile defense system have been tasked with protective defensive assignments.

 

In turn, however, the loss of a second Seventh Fleet Aegis anti-ballistic missile system ship surely poses new problems for Pentagon war planners who are already facing enough problems.

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