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"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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The Klingon Navy (part of the Imperial Klingon Battle Fleet)had cloaking devices but even that could not cover incompetance.
I believe the root cause that is driving these issues is lack of true leadership and individuals who are willing to give up their honor and reputations for personal gratifications.
I served in CTF-53 when I was deployed for Iraqi Freedom in 2003 in Bahrain & the UAE (as a member of the Navy Reserve that were called up at the start of the conflict.) There were members of my detatchment that were out getting drunk to all hours of the night and then showing up for duty the next morning half in the bag. That was the reason why I asked to leave my reserve unit as it made me furious that senior enlisted leaders and officers were told about the problem and did nothing to stop it.
I took an oath to uphold & defend the Constitution and follow the lawful orders of those who are in my command. During my years of service, I held true to that oath.
It disgusted me that shipmates I had worked with for years prior to the call-up acted this way while on active duty and it still bothers me to this day that the leadership of my command refused to deal with it.
That lead me to make the move to the Seabees as the Seabees were hard partiers but knew well enough when to put a stop to issues that endangered the safety of all.
Looks like the issues I saw in Bahrain have not gotten better in 8 years. Let’s hope sacking this officer sends a clear message to those who would act in a manner that brings dishonor to our Navy.
IIRC the process for removal of a commanding officer due to a lack of confidence in his ability to command did not provide for said officer’s subsequent collection of a pension. Nor was there post-removal investigation into much of anything.
How do these people get selected? I will ask the question once again: Is the Navy’s Command Screen process broken?
Is it just me or does the fact that we have something called the “Joint Enabling Capabilities Command” bother anyone else? Is everything in the world now driven by corporate-speak? It’s no wonder that everything seems to be effed-up, to the max.
Is it known yet whether this was a failure to keep one’s trousers upright and fastened?
Isn’t the phrase “Imperial Klingon Empire” redundant?
I heard it used on the show and went “Huh?”…
What did he do…..fail to appoint enough gays and lesbians to command positions?
Slightly OT– before he rose to the dizzying heights of VADM, Mark Fox got a Mig during Gulf War Uno. His plane is still flying with VMFAT-101: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18842924@N03/5438011676/
It’s only reasonable in the ever shrinking Navy with fewer command opportunities, that the Calvin Coolidge doctrine is being re-invented.
“We’ll buy one airplane and let all the aviators take turns flying it” now applies to ships. Gotta reduce that command slection list somehow.
Next!
Well, be fair, the Romulans were the actual developers.
The Klingons have cloaking tech… but they also have sanctioned ‘promotion through assassination.’
Small favors?