{"id":221492,"date":"2025-09-12T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:05:12","slug":"commander-of-san-diegos-uss-santa-barbara-relieved-of-duty-for-unspecified-reasons-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221492\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander of San Diego\u2019s USS Santa Barbara relieved of duty for unspecified reasons \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Ochs, commander of the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara, was relieved of duty on Thursday \u201cdue to a loss of confidence in his ability to command\u201d the high-speed vessel, the Navy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Navy maintains the highest standards for leaders and holds them accountable when those standards are not met,\u201d officials said. They did not otherwise elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Barbara, one of the newest littoral combat ships, was visiting Manama, Bahrain, when the change of command occurred was announced. The ship is currently operating in the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Ochs, commander of the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara, was relieved of duty on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,728,1802,50,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-221492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192655171577396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}