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U.S. Navy Removes All Three Top Officers at its Japan Shipyard

The U.S. Navy relieved the entire top leadership of its largest overseas ship maintenance facility in Yokosuka, Japan on June 3. Capt. Wendel Penetrante, Capt. Edwin Catubig, and Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Howell were dismissed due to loss of confidence in their ability to command, just 15 months after Penetrante assumed command. The facility, critical to Indo-Asia-Pacific naval operations, has delivered all seven completed ships to the U.S. Seventh Fleet on time or ahead of schedule this year.