Navy fires commanding officer, command master chief of expeditionary security squadron

[riversedge]

Source: taskandpurpose.com


Navy Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were both fired on Friday.

Jeff Schogol Apr 11, 2025 5:33 PM EDT



Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced.

Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says.


The Navy has not said publicly exactly why Robblee and Phillips were fired. All military branches use the euphemism “loss of confidence” to avoid providing the exact reason why commanding officers and senior enlisted leaders are fired. The vague term encompasses a variety of reasons, including problems at work and personal issues.

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According to the Navy, Maritime Expeditionary Security Forces, which oversee subordinate expeditionary security groups and squadrons, operate at sea and near shore, including in bays and harbors. Their primary role is to conduct security operations in those coastal waterways......................


Read more: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-fires-expeditionary-security-squadron/

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Goodness, both have barely on their jobs for several months-hardly time to get to their jobs.
Short article that really does not say much.

Link to tweet

Navy firings 4.11.2025
Navy Cmdr. Brett Robblee (left) and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips (right) were relieved as Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4’s commanding officer and senior enlisted leader respectively. Navy photos.

[Pisces]

1. What is more scary is who they are putting in place. If Martial Law is on the table he needs people in

place who will not question his orders. This is starting to get a bit dystopian.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. more than a bit

[quakerboy]

19. That is exactly the point of all of this.

[AleksS]

24. Yup. "Loss of confidence" seems to mean:

"Loss of confidence that you'll follow illegal orders from trump."

[BoRaGard]

2. G.O.P. Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is weakening America systematically

[angrychair]

3. Think they are setting up

For the Insurrection Act or deportation camps and these two could be key figures and likely worried they wouldn't comply to those type of commands.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Once everyone on top of everything is fired, does anyone left know what's going on?

Used to be we were flattening the hierarchy. Now we're beheading it!

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. It looks like they are going to put idiot loyalists in the chain of command

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Weakening the military is part of it, but it sure looks like something they would do as a prelude to overthrowing the Constitution.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Probably refused to attack Greenland.

[taxi]

7. This makes me sick.

Do you know how much bullshit each of them had to go through to get where they are?
This dismantling of senior positions, not only in the military, but everywhere in government can only lead to a collapse of democracy.
Democratic Underground cannot be our last gasp, stay strong everyone!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

25. And that is exactly what Putin has been paying for...

... since the 1980's.

[SheltieLover]

26. Precisely!

[LiberalArkie]

8. I do not see a gold Trump pin on either. Improper uniform?

[krkaufman]

10. Why? If I were force to guess ...

... both were fired because the commanding officer refused to fire the senior enlisted leader.

[LT Barclay]

32. Who happens to be of unapproved skin tone. That was my thought.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

11. He's firing all the competent commanders

So if and when he tries to use the military against civilians he might find the competent commanders are there, in force, to oppose him and his thugs.

[Godot51]

12. Gutting the military...

The gutting of the military has been ongoing since the inauguration.

In some ways this is odd, given the basic conservatism of much of the U.S. military, especially its officer corp.

But, besides weeding out women and minorities, this administration wants, and needs, fealty. They don't need a military that will NOT engage in operations against the American people.

In the Navy, Chief Petty Officers are the backbones of the enlisted personal. You hate your Chief, you'd like to kill your Chief, and, yet, you depend upon your Chief for almost everything. Without a chief the enlisted are a mere rabble.

It is to be hoped, but not guaranteed, that a majority of the mid-level officers, non-coms, and lifers will understand this conundrum and act accordingly when the need arises.

[BOSSHOG]

14. I was hated and loved and depended upon

I’m sure the thought of taking me out popped into someone’s head.

Command Master Chief is the formal title because Bad Ass Motherfucker was deemed inappropriate.

I bet neither the CO or CMC has fake bonespurs

[erronis]

17. As we like to say, "Thank you for your service." CMC - pretty impressive!

[BOSSHOG]

20. Not Me

I retired a CPO, but can attest to the aura of CMCs. One told me when your Sailors do good their mine, when they do bad they’re yours. I appreciate the thank you. I thank the plumbers and electricians and the checkout lady at the grocery store and the tellers at the bank and the school teachers, and police and firefighters and the guys who pick up our trash. And the Methodists who en the food pantry and the city guys who clear the streets of snow when we’re still in bed. I thank them every time I see them. We couldn’t make it without their service.

[erronis]

21. I like your attitude - and I try to make it my own. I even thank the little machine that spits out my parking token.

Everyone has something to give and for those that do, thank you.

Another thing I've been saying lo on 70 years is that the garbage handlers should make more than the president - given the job and the lack of fancy perks.

[BOSSHOG]

22. Yeah our trash guys are awesome

Always a wave and a smile no matter the weather. Always on time for 6 years. The company apprises us on Facebook (my wife’s) about any schedule changes. We can do without city council for a month. Let the trash guys (and gal) get sick and hear the howls. We’ve lived here 6 years, rates haven’t gone up a penny. So easy to be kind and nice and generous.

[Figarosmom]

31. The ONLY thing he needs the military for now

Is against us or to take Greenland , Canada and The Panama Canel. He's not worried about Russia attacking us because we already belong to them. And he thinks he can break China economically.

[kkmarie]

35. Project 2025 loyalty tests

If the protests get larger on April 19th, as predicted, Krasnov declaring martial law on that day or April 20th is a total possibility. Project 2025 requires loyalist to the regime.

"Ali Velshi
Trump ‘Loyalty tests’ for military, intel agencies: Inside Project 2025
Project 2025 dedicates six chapters to "The Common Defense," proposing sweeping changes for the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the intelligence community. Its goal is to remove any obstacles to Trump’s authority and entrench right-wing culture wars into governance. The proposals include purging military leaders who don't align with Trump’s policies, eliminating what it terms "divisive critical race theory programs," expelling trans individuals from military service, and requiring military aptitude tests for public school students. Project 2025 advocates “a purge of anyone who might disagree with a second Trump administration,” warns top national security lawyer Mark Zaid.
Aug. 3, 2024"
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/trump-loyalty-tests-for-military-intel-agencies-inside-project-2025-216340037669

[BurnDoubt]

13. Vetting replacements...

From Russian Navy????

[erronis]

18. Or leaving us unable to respond to a threat from said Russian Navy?

[58Sunliner]

15. Specious as all hell.

"a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties."
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has not served in the military or had a civilian leadership role in the service. He was a major donor. The under-secretary is the nut Hung Cao.

[BonnieJW]

23. He ran against Tim Kaine

Last year for senate and of course lost. Perfect

[58Sunliner]

29. His debate performance was a new low in stupidity and lies.

Only the best.

[Dan]

16. My guts tells me that the Administration tried to get rid of the

DEI (“Black”) person because he committed the crime of being Black and the Commander objected.

[Demovictory9]

27. I knew at least one would be black or female

[dchill]

28. I'm experiencing a loss of confidence in Donald Trump's...

...ability to perform leadership duties - and bodily functions.

[Figarosmom]

30. The sick fuck

Meets the navy to attack Greenland. These two likely not on board with that.

[IronLionZion]

33. Sounds like something out of Russia

fire anyone who does their job correctly and replace with loyalists who will obey unlawful orders

[Marcuse]

34. The Commissar's in town.