 Captain Moosally retired from the Navy at that rank in May 1990 . At his change of command ceremony on Iowa on May 4 , 1990 , Moosally criticized the Navy for mismanaging the investigation into the turret explosion , saying that the investigators were " people who , in their rush to manage the Iowa problem , forgot about doing the right thing for the Iowa crew " . During the ceremony , Moosally was awarded the Legion of Merit by Rear Admiral George Gee for his service as commander of Iowa . Soon after , Moosally went to work for an unnamed defense contractor in the Washington DC area . 
