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It is highly unusual for a military commander to be "fired" -- removed from his command without notice. Carey's firing, with no public statement as to cause, is doubly mysterious as Giardina's, even though Giardina's firing had to come from the Great Pretender's own orders. A three-star line officer can only be removed by order of the commander-in-chief. NBC is claiming a Navy statement cites a "loss of trust" in Carey's firing, but the official Navy news release doesn't care such a phrase within it.The two-star general in charge of all Air Force nuclear missiles was fired Friday following a probe into alleged personal misbehavior -- just days after another key official overseeing U.S. nuclear power was relieved of duty.
The Air Force announced Friday that Maj. Gen. Michael Carey was removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles -- a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country.
The circumstances of Carey's firing were shrouded in mystery. A senior U.S. Defense official said he was fired over "conduct." Officials said it did not have to do with gambling, or the loss of a nuclear weapon, or sexual misconduct.
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Earlier in the week, the Navy announced that the deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was relieved of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino.
Meanwhile, NCIS is heading the investigation into Giardina following the Navy Criminal Investigation Service's reception of a file developed since mid-June by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. The ex-nuke officer is accused of introducing a "significant monetary amount" of fake casino chips into games at a Council Bluffs river boat.
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