The Navy relieved the commanding officer for recruiting in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday.
Cmdr. Stacey O’Neal was fired as head of Navy Expertise Acquisition Group San Antonio “on account of a lack of confidence in her means to carry out her duties,” the Navy mentioned in a short assertion.
No different cause was offered for O’Neal’s firing, and the Navy recurrently makes use of the “lack of confidence” line when asserting such CO firings.
O’Neal was recurrently featured on the unit’s social media profiles noting that it’s “time to rise up and get after it.”
A motivational video that includes the officer shouting out her sailors was posted to the unit’s Instagram on Friday.
O’Neal has been reassigned to Naval Medical Forces Improvement Command out of Joint Base San Antonio.
Capt. Tommy L. Edgeworth, Navy Recruiting Area West’s deputy commander, has quickly assumed command of the unit, the Navy mentioned.
The prior-enlisted O’Neal has served for greater than 30 years and assumed command of the recruiting unit that oversees dozens of recruiting stations within the space.
She served because the unit’s second-in-command earlier than that, and commenced her profession as a machinist’s mate.
