The Navy relieved the commanding officer for recruiting in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday.
Cmdr. Stacey O’Neal was fired as head of Navy Expertise Acquisition Group San Antonio “attributable to a lack of confidence in her capacity to carry out her duties,” the Navy stated in a short assertion.
No different cause was offered for O’Neal’s firing, and the Navy repeatedly makes use of the “lack of confidence” line when asserting such CO firings.
O’Neal was repeatedly featured on the unit’s social media profiles noting that it’s “time to rise up and get after it.”
A motivational video that includes the officer shouting out her sailors was posted to the unit’s Instagram on Friday.
O’Neal has been reassigned to Naval Medical Forces Growth Command out of Joint Base San Antonio.
Capt. Tommy L. Edgeworth, Navy Recruiting Area West’s deputy commander, has quickly assumed command of the unit, the Navy stated.
The prior-enlisted O’Neal has served for greater than 30 years and assumed command of the recruiting unit that oversees dozens of recruiting stations within the space.
She served because the unit’s second-in-command earlier than that, and commenced her profession as a machinist’s mate.
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