Capt. Carlos LeBron, the commanding officer of the Singapore-based Naval Medical Research Center-Asia, was relieved of his duties Monday "due to a loss of confidence in his judgment and ability to command," the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery said Monday.

LeBron was fired by his boss, Capt. John W. Sanders, the head of the Navy Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland. BUMED did not immediately respond to a query asking whether his removal was due to professional lapses or personal misconduct.

LeBron has been reassigned to administrative duties at NMRC pending further disposition, the BUMED release said.

LeBron, a microbiologist by trade, was commissioned directly into the Navy in 1993 and previously commanded the Navy's largest drug screening laboratory in Jacksonville, Florida.

According to the command's official website, the NMRC unit was recently established in Singapore as a research command for cooperative work with Singaporean researchers to identify infectious disease threats of military and public health importance.

Capt. Marshall Monteville, the NMRC-Asia executive officer, has temporarily taken command of NMRC-Asia until a permanent relief is found.

About Mark D. Faram

Mark D. Faram is a former reporter for Navy Times. He was a senior writer covering personnel, cultural and historical issues. A nine-year active duty Navy veteran, Faram served from 1978 to 1987 as a Navy Diver and photographer.

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