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To: LindyBill who wrote (42551)9/8/2002 6:33:43 AM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 281500
 
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timesonline.co.uk
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Kitty Hawk captain loses control
By Roland Watson in Washington and Glen Owen



THE captain of America’s most famous aircraft carrier, the USS Kitty Hawk, has been sacked for losing control of his crew, just as President Bush is readying the US military for an attack on Iraq.
Naval chiefs dismissed Captain Thomas Hejl after a series of arrests of crew members for alleged robbery, assault and drug-smuggling.

In a blunt statement announcing the departure, Vice-Admiral Robert Willard, the Commander of the US Seventh Fleet, said that he had acted “due to a loss of confidence in Captain Hejl’s ability to lead his crew”.

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