On Friday, Captain Kyle S. Moses was fired effective immediately by the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Vice Admiral Kevin M. Donegan. Donegan stated that the termination came as a result of a review of the recently concluded five-month long investigation.
“Several weeks ago, I had initially taken what I felt was appropriate administrative and corrective action involving Capt. Moses, based on the preliminary results of the investigation, which I began immediately after we recovered our sailors,” Donegan said in a statement. “However, after thoroughly examining the findings of the final, comprehensive investigation, I determined that this additional action was necessary.”
The results of the investigation are expected to be publicly released by the Pentagon next week, and will include changes the Navy will make to avoid incidents of this type in the future.
“If you are going to do these types of missions, then the right training, preparation, and oversight has to occur,” an anonymous Navy official told FP. “There are oversight lessons learned, communication lessons learned, and operational lessons learned.”
Moses is the second officer to be punished over the incident, last month Commander Eric Rasch was also relieved of his duties.
