The commodore in charge of the U.S. Navy boats that strayed into Iranian waters leading to capture of 10 American sailors on board will be relieved of command.
Capt. Kyle Moses, commodore of Commander Task Force (CTF) 56, who was responsible for the boats and the crew on board, will be removed from his position in a move that will likely end his career, according to Fox News.
His crew were aboard two patrol craft on January 12 and due to a ‘multitude of errors’ were detained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) when they inadvertently entered Iranian territorial waters.
The nine men and one woman were released the next day after being held for about 15 hours.

The 10 sailors were detained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) when they inadvertently entered Iranian territorial waters on January 12
United States Navy officials are reviewing potential punishments against the American sailors and are close to a decision, a Navy official said on Thursday.
Findings of the five-month long investigation will be presented by Admiral John Richardson, the chief of U.S. Naval Operations, at a briefing in the Pentagon on June 30.
Richardson will give more details on the incident, the official said.
If any punishments will have been decided by then, they will be announced by Richardson, the official added.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the investigation also found the incident was caused by communication failures and not enough oversight and training.
‘The investigation is complete, and is being referred to appropriate commands for adjudication,’ said U.S. Navy spokesman Commander Mike Kafka.
In May, the U.S. Navy said it had fired the commander of the 10 American sailors.
At the time, a Navy statement said that it had lost confidence in Commander Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the coastal riverine squadron and responsible for the training of the more than 400 sailors in the unit.

The Navy said he had been temporarily reassigned to a new role.
The sailors were detained after their boat drifted into Iranian waters off Farsi Island, an outpost in the middle of the Persian Gulf that has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats since the 1980s, hours after they left Kuwait for Bahrain.
The crew on board the boats were inexperienced, running late and were captured after a ‘multitude of errors,’ defense officials told Fox News.
The sailors were on two small armed vessels, known as riverine command boats, on a 300-mile journey from Kuwait to Bahrain, where the Navy’s 5th Fleet is located.
Though the sailors were held for less than 24 hours, the incident was a major embarrassment for the U.S. Navy and President Barack Obama.
It raised tensions between the U.S. and Iran because of embarrassing images Iran published of the soldiers kneeling with their hands on their heads, which were broadcast on Iran’s state TV and then sent around the world.
In footage broadcast on Iranian state television, one sailor was filmed apologizing to Iran.
‘It was a mistake. That was our fault. And we apologize for our mistake,’ he said.
It caused political uproar, too, coming on the day of President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address – and months after the signing of a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from financial penalties. 

Source: Daily Mail, 24 June 2016