Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said the punishment stemmed from the five officers’ “inadequate leadership and execution of their oversight duties."
The organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group raised more than $25 million from donors as they repeatedly pledged every dollar would be used for the project.
The body of Machinist’s Mate Fireman Brandon Forbes, 20, of Maple Heights, Ohio, was discovered Friday. The aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan was his first assignment in the Navy.
A spokesperson for U.S. European Command reaffirmed the Pentagon’s earlier dismissal of the Russian description of the Black Sea incident involving a British destroyer as false.