{"id":344188,"date":"2018-01-17T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-navy-charges-2-commanders-in-ship-collisions\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:47:14","slug":"presstv-us-navy-charges-2-commanders-in-ship-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-navy-charges-2-commanders-in-ship-collisions\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Navy charges 2 commanders in ship collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Navy says it will charge commanders of two destroyers\u00a0involved in collisions last year which claimed the lives of 17 sailors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former commanding officers of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers face charges including &#8220;dereliction of duty, hazarding a vessel, and negligent homicide,&#8221; the Navy said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in August 2017, leaving 10 sailors dead, while the USS Fitzgerald smashed into a cargo ship in June, killing seven.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Courts-martial proceedings\/Article 32 hearings are being convened to review evidence supporting possible criminal charges against Fitzgerald members,&#8221; as well as the commander of the John S. McCain, the Navy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement of an Article 32 hearing and referral to a court-martial is not intended to and does not reflect a determination of guilt or innocence related to any offenses,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/17\/549197\/us-navy-commanders-destroyers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy says it will charge commanders of two destroyers\u00a0involved in collisions last year which claimed the lives of 17 sailors. The former commanding officers of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers face charges including &#8220;dereliction of duty, hazarding a vessel, and negligent homicide,&#8221; the Navy said in a statement on Tuesday. The USS John S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}