NCIS?is investigating a dead Naval base civilian employee found floating in the waters of?Guantanamo Bay,?Cuba. We don’t know how he died yet, but that isn’t the strange news.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) uncovered an affair between the Naval officer in charge of the base and the dead man’s wife.
According to the NCIS website:
The NCIS mission is to investigate and defeat criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats to the United States Navy and Marine Corps?ashore, afloat, and in cyberspace.
According to a statement from the Navy, Captain John Nettleton was relieved of duty yesterday. His crime was a ?loss of confidence in Nettleton’s ability to command.?
The affair surfaced during the typical NCIS investigation into the death of Christopher Tur (42). But the investigation has turned into a many-sided mystery.
CNN explains the details of this incident:
Having an affair violates military law — the Uniform Code of Military Justice — and could in itself constitute grounds for Nettleton’s reassignment.
There are initial indications that Tur’s death was a suicide, but no cause of death has yet been determined, according to one official with knowledge of the situation.
Tur was reported missing and found in the waters off of the base a day later. NCIS investigates this type of incident.
Nettleton was in charge of the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. The base does not include the detention center commonly referred to as GITMO. That facility is run by an one-star Navy admiral.
Tur began working at the Navy Exchange on the base in June 2011 when he moved his family to Guantanamo. Tur’s wife, Lara, was director of the Fleet and Family Services Center on base.
For yet undisclosed reasons, Rear Adm. Mary M. Jackson, commander of Navy Region Southeast, temporarily reassigned Nettleton to her own staff. Jackson sent her own chief of staff, Capt. Scott Gray, to replace Nettleton at Guantanamo Bay.
The plot thickens.
