{"id":2007926,"date":"2023-08-22T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-relieves-commander-of-japan-based-destroyer-uss-howard\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:30:03","slug":"navy-relieves-commander-of-japan-based-destroyer-uss-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-relieves-commander-of-japan-based-destroyer-uss-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy removes commander of Japan-based destroyer USS Howard."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnavy-relieves-commander-of-japan-based-destroyer-uss-howard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007926&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Navy Relieves\u2064 Commander of USS Howard<\/h2>\n<p>The Navy made the decision to relieve \u2064Cmdr. Kenji\u200d Igawa of his responsibilities as the commander of the USS Howard on Saturday. This action was\u200c taken due to a loss of confidence in his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, the commander of the\u2064 U.S. \u20637th Fleet, based in the Pacific\u200c region, has administratively reassigned Igawa \u200bto the staff of commander, U.S. 7th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temporary Replacement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Capt. Edward Angelinas, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmaker-says-pentagon-push-to-fight-extremism-in-its-ranks-is-partisan-and-prejudiced\/\" title=\"GOP Lawmaker Says Pentagon Push to Fight Extremism in Its Ranks Is Partisan and Prejudiced\">commanding officer<\/a> of USS Robert\u2064 Smalls, will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-rep-ocasio-cortez-cant-even-sell-her-far-left-agenda-to-her-own-party\/\" title=\"McConnell: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez can\u2019t even sell her far-left agenda to her own party\">temporarily fill<\/a> the \u200bvacancy left by Igawa&#8217;s demotion. The Navy has not yet announced who will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jeopardy-host-mike-richards-apologizes-for-sexist-racist-comments\/\" title=\"New Jeopardy Host Mike Richards Apologizes For Sexist, Racist Comments\">permanent replacement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Navy commanding officers are held to high standards of personal and professional conduct,&#8221;\u200b the Navy stated. &#8220;They are \u200bexpected to\u2063 uphold the highest standards of responsibility, reliability, and leadership, and the Navy holds \u200cthem\u200d accountable when they \u2063fall short of those standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy&#8217;s statement did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-snubs-gop-leaders-on-new-iran-diplomacy\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Snubs GOP Leaders on New Iran Diplomacy\">provide specific details<\/a> on what led\u2064 to the\u2062 decision to relieve Igawa of his command.<\/p>\n<h3>Cmdr. Kenji Igawa&#8217;s Background<\/h3>\n<p>Igawa graduated from \u2063the U.S. Naval Academy in 2004 with a degree in \u2062electrical engineering. Prior to \u2064his role as commander of the USS Howard, he held various positions, \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-relieves-commander-of-japan-based-destroyer-uss-howard\/\" title=\"Navy removes commander of Japan-based destroyer USS Howard.\">including combat systems officer<\/a>\u2063 and weapons \u200cofficer aboard USS Princeton,\u2064 assistant damage \u2062control assistant and repair division officer\u200d aboard USS Tarawa, and communications officer aboard USS Stethem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Howard&#8217;s commander, Cmdr. Kenji Igawa, was relieved by the Navy on Saturday. Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, in charge of the U.S. 7th Fleet, based in the Pacific, cited a loss of confidence. Cmdr. Igawa will be administratively reassigned to the staff of the U.S. 7th Fleet&#8217;s commander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}