Navy Destroyer XO Fired Due to Loss of Confidence in His Leadership

The development of managers has taken a much higher priority than creating leaders. While education is a great thing it isn't any kind of assured leadership development program.
We have all seen people who were high school graduates but possessed leadership skills that made them the one everyone respected and would follow. We have seen the people with more diplomas than brain cells who couldn't lead a horse to water, much less get it to drink.
Are these removals a result of increasing standards, more reporting of failures by subordinates, or simply crappy leaders who have slid by for to long?

Interesting that this was not his first tour as XO on a DDG, makes you wonder if he wasn't doing a good job on his first tour but somehow skated by or if there's something different about this command that posed a problem.

I wonder if this is related to the "Fat Leonard" scandals" or all of the operational f**kups they have had in 7th Forward? At least the MA's didn't escort him off the ship and hand him over to NCIS like they did Dusek, who justly deserved it IMO.