PENTAGON: A second senior nuclear commander in a week has been relieved of his post today.
Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, deputy commander of the 20th Air Force, was fired after “a loss of trust and confidence in his leadership and judgment,” the Air Force said in a statement.
Carey is the deputy commander responsible for nuclear ICBMs.
The action was prompted by an Inspector General’s investigation into his behavior on an assignment and didn’t have anything to do with nuclear weapons.
Carey joins the deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, in this extraordinary week.
Giardina was relieved Wednesday of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino. His removal is much more serious than Carey’s. The Air Force general did not have operational command of the nuclear force, as did the admiral.
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