Officer Punished for 2016 Farsi Island Incident Allowed to Stay in Navy
By: Sam LaGrone
April 20, 2017 4:11 PM • Updated: April 20, 2017 8:08 PM
This post has been updated to include a staetment from Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
The officer in charge of 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf last year will be allowed to stay in the service, his attorney said.
On Tuesday, a three-sailor board of inquiry voted to let Lt. David Nartker stay in the Navy after he received a punitive letter of reprimand for his role in the capture of himself and nine other riverine sailors by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), after two boats he commanded drifted into Iranian waters during a transit in the Persian Gulf.
https://news.usni.org/2017/04/20/officer-punished-farsi-island-incident-allowed-stay-navy#more-25274
