{"id":88549,"date":"2013-11-01T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-commander-in-japan-relieved-of-duty\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:41:28","slug":"us-commander-in-japan-relieved-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-commander-in-japan-relieved-of-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"US commander in Japan relieved of duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Army Col. Eric Tilley<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Army has relieved the commander of its largest base in Japan after an investigation into alleged misconduct, according to a US Army Japan press statement sent late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation had been ongoing since June 7, when Col. Eric Tilley was suspended from his job as commander of US Army Garrison Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. James C. Boozer, Sr., commander of US Army Japan and I Corps (Forward), officially relieved Tilley on Friday for &ldquo;lack of confidence&rdquo; based on the results of the inquiry, according to the press statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement provided no other details. Reached via email, US Army Japan spokesman Maj. Kevin Toner said, &#8220;&hellip;it would be inappropriate to make public the allegations because the investigation did not lead to findings of criminal misconduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tilley inquiry was not related to Boozer&#8217;s predecessor, Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison, Toner said. Harrison was also suspended in June while officials looked into whether he may have failed to report or properly investigate a sexual assault claim.<\/p>\n<p>Toner would not address rumors that other officials have been relieved of their duties from Camp Zama as a result of alleged misconduct, nor did he elaborate on what had happened to Tilley&#8217;s civilian deputy, Jeffrey Wertz, who was temporarily detailed to other duties in June during a misconduct investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Joy Curriera has been appointed US Army Japan commander, according to the US Army Japan news release. Stars and Stripes<\/p>\n<p>AGB\/AGB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/11\/01\/332482\/us-commander-in-japan-relieved-of-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US commander in Japan relieved of duty\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Col. Eric Tilley The Army has relieved the commander of its largest base in Japan after an investigation into alleged misconduct, according to a US Army Japan press statement sent late Friday. The investigation had been ongoing since June 7, when Col. Eric Tilley was suspended from his job as commander of US Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}