The Navy confirmed Friday that it eliminated the chief officer of a command chargeable for guaranteeing sailors have correct pay and allowances amid an ongoing investigation.
Cmdr. Brandon DeHaan, the chief officer of the Navy Pay and Personnel Help Heart, or NPPSC, was relieved Sept. 1 by Rear Adm. Stuart Satterwhite “attributable to a lack of confidence in his capability to satisfy tasks as govt officer,” Lt. Cmdr. John Stevens, a spokesman for the MyNavy Profession Heart, instructed Navy.com.
The service didn’t publicly announce DeHaan’s elimination and has beforehand stated that its coverage is simply to verify firings of govt officers and command grasp chiefs when requested. Nonetheless, he seems to be at the very least the second govt officer to be fired by the Navy this yr.
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Stevens confirmed that “there was an investigation that resulted within the administrative reassignment of Cmdr. DeHaan” however added that “it will be inappropriate to debate attainable future motion presently.”
Lt. Cmdr. Leonardo Nicasio, the present appearing director of Human Sources Service Heart, will take over as govt officer of NPPSC whereas DeHaan has been administratively reassigned to larger headquarters in Millington, Tennessee, Stevens stated.
The firing comes because the Navy makes an attempt to cope with the fallout of a modernization effort of its pay and personnel programs. These efforts resulted in pay and allowance backlogs for sailors in varied components of the fleet and, final yr, snarled the Navy’s capability to generate key discharge paperwork for sailors leaving the service.
In April, Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, the officer who oversees the Navy’s complete personnel infrastructure, instructed Navy.com that most of the backlogs have been cleared however admitted there was nonetheless work to be completed.
In keeping with an official biography, DeHaan joined the Navy in 1996 as a “personnelman” — a job that’s now often known as personnel specialist — and achieved the rank of chief petty officer earlier than incomes his fee in 2006 as a common administration officer.
As an officer, he served aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, Essex and John Stennis. He additionally served because the flag secretary to 2 totally different leaders within the workplace of the chief of naval operations — the Navy’s high officer.
Previous to turning into the chief officer of NPPSC, DeHaan went to a two-week course on the Naval Management and Ethics Heart in Newport, Rhode Island, within the spring of 2022.
His private awards embrace three Meritorious Service Medals, 5 Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and 4 Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, amongst quite a few different marketing campaign and unit awards.
— Konstantin Toropin might be reached at konstantin.toropin@navy.com. Observe him on Twitter @ktoropin.
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