{"id":26774,"date":"2026-02-14T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/navy-fires-commanding-officer-of-destroyer-uss-mason\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:23:51","slug":"navy-fires-commanding-officer-of-destroyer-uss-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/navy-fires-commanding-officer-of-destroyer-uss-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy fires commanding officer of destroyer USS Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Navy has dismissed the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Mason, service officials announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of Carrier Strike Group 10, relieved Capt. Chavius Lewis of his duties due to a \u201closs in confidence in Lewis\u2019 ability to command,\u201d the Navy said in a release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The brief release did not provide additional details regarding the circumstances surrounding Lewis\u2019 firing. The Navy often uses \u201closs of confidence\u201d as a blanket statement when dismissing senior leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Navy maintains the highest standards for leaders and holds them accountable when those standards are not met,\u201d the service said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lewis, who assumed command of the Mason on Nov. 14, 2024, has been replaced by Capt. Kevin Hoffman. Lewis has been temporarily reassigned to Commander, Naval Surface Group Southeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Assigned to U.S. 2nd Fleet, the Mason is currently participating in a composite training unit exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lewis\u2019 relief \u201cdoes not impact the ship\u2019s mission or schedule,\u201d the release noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy has dismissed the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Mason, service officials announced Friday. Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of Carrier Strike Group 10, relieved Capt. Chavius Lewis of his duties due to a \u201closs in confidence in Lewis\u2019 ability to command,\u201d the Navy said in a release. The brief release did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/50b107fba4543fa2479e93243a5873fd.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}