US Navy fires commander of nuclear submarine
The US Navy has fired one of its submarine commanders, citing loss of confidence in his ability to lead as the reason.
Commander Edward Byers who was in charge of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Dallas since November 2014, was dismissed by the commander of Submarine Squadron 12 and reassigned to the staff of the Undersea Warfare Development Center in Groton, Connecticut, the Navy said Thursday.
Captain Jack Houdeshell, who commanded the Dallas before Byers, replaced the sacked commander.
Houdeshell was serving as deputy commander of Submarine Squadron 4, which also based in Groton.
USS Dallas, named after the city of Dallas in Texas, entered service in 1988 and was slated to be retired in 2014, but this was later on postponed to 2017 fiscal year.
Byers was the third Navy commander to be relieved of duty over the recent weeks.
His dismissal came a few days after Commander Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz appeared in the US District Court in San Diego, pleading guilty to charges of accepting paid travel, prostitutes and Lady Gaga concert tickets from a Malaysian defense contractor in exchange for classified information.
He was born in Cambodia during the Vietnam War and gained media attention for his rise to captain of a US Navy destroyer, Reuters reported.
Earlier in January, Rear Admiral Rick Williams, the commander of the Navy's Carrier Strike Group 15, was relieved of his duties.
It was revealed during a routine inspection that Williams had violated Navy rules by looking at pornographic images on his government computer.
Williams’ firing was the first time since 2013 that a one-star commander was being relieved.
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