{"id":57410,"date":"2001-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9736c363-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"9736c374-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9736c374-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub Cmdr. gets letter of reprimand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) &#8211; USS Greeneville Cmdr. Scott Waddle was given a letter of reprimand as punishment for the collision that killed nine Japanese men and boys, his attorney said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Waddle said he would retire by Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I regret that my Navy career has ended in this way, I know that I am one of the lucky ones because I survived the accident,&#8221; Waddle said in a statement released by his civilian attorney, Charles Gittens.<\/p>\n<p>The action was imposed by Adm. Thomas Fargo, Pacific Fleet commander, at an &#8220;admiral&#8217;s mast&#8221; attended by Waddle, a military attorney and several officers, seated around a conference table at Pearl Harbor Navy Base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand and accept the punishment that Admiral Fargo imposed. He treated me fairly and with dignity and respect and I thank him for that,&#8221; Waddle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Greeneville Cmdr. Scott Waddle was given a letter of reprimand as punishment for the collision that killed nine Japanese men and boys, his attorney said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}