November 15, 2007
You're Out: Coast Guard Commander Replaced
After screwing up mandated drug tests and failing to report the severity of the oil spill in a timely fashion, as of this morning Coast Guard Captain William Uberti is out. And an experienced specialist in oil SNAFUs, Capt. Paul Gugg, is in.
According to the Chronicle, Gugg, 49, has "has crafted spill regulations and response plans in Washington, D.C., and helped design emergency tactics after the catastrophic 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska."
Coast Guard District, Rear Admiral Craig Bone (hee hee!) made the decision to replace Uberti by "considering the magnitude of this response operation, the level of public interest, and problems I have identified related to the initial spill response communications and coordination."
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I don't suppose there will be any repercussions from the drug-test fuckup...
Now the Comical is reporting that the Coast Guard saw the ship off course but did not warn them. This is such a horrific failure.