thedrifter
02-14-03, 08:35 PM
Associated Press
February 14, 2003
TOKYO - The commander of a group of U.S. aircraft carriers was relieved of duty Thursday after superiors said he had engaged in an "improper relationship" with a female naval officer.
Rear Adm. Steven Kunkle of the Navy's Seventh Fleet was reprimanded at a hearing and temporarily assigned to the staff of Commander U.S. Naval Forces Japan in Yokosuka, spokesman Cmdr. Matthew Brown said.
Brown said Kunkle had been dismissed because he had been "engaging in an improper relationship with a female naval officer" and superiors had lost confidence in him. He did not elaborate. Kunkle headed Carrier Group Five, part of the Seventh Fleet. It includes the USS Kitty Hawk, based just south of Tokyo, which is headed to the Persian Gulf to prepare for a possible attack on Iraq.
http://www.military.com/pics/FL_kitty_021403.jpg
Sempers,
Roger
February 14, 2003
TOKYO - The commander of a group of U.S. aircraft carriers was relieved of duty Thursday after superiors said he had engaged in an "improper relationship" with a female naval officer.
Rear Adm. Steven Kunkle of the Navy's Seventh Fleet was reprimanded at a hearing and temporarily assigned to the staff of Commander U.S. Naval Forces Japan in Yokosuka, spokesman Cmdr. Matthew Brown said.
Brown said Kunkle had been dismissed because he had been "engaging in an improper relationship with a female naval officer" and superiors had lost confidence in him. He did not elaborate. Kunkle headed Carrier Group Five, part of the Seventh Fleet. It includes the USS Kitty Hawk, based just south of Tokyo, which is headed to the Persian Gulf to prepare for a possible attack on Iraq.
http://www.military.com/pics/FL_kitty_021403.jpg
Sempers,
Roger