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2019-11-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Fire the Admirals to Encourage the Others

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-25 01:29|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The boss of the navy was fired, for violating the chain of command by going around the secretary of defense.
What happens at lower levels is not yet clear. From what you say it seems like other heads should roll.
It did seem odd that the only thing Gallagher should be convicted of is 'posing'. Who knew that that was a serious crime? Is it a felony?
Something more significant, like jay walking, or picking one's nose in public, would sound like a better justification for demoting him.

Posted by Daniel 2019-11-25 02:03|| 2019-11-25 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I polished up that handle so carefully
That now I am the ruler of the Queen's Navy.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2019-11-25 02:37|| 2019-11-25 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Posing is a capital offense.
Unless you're a Deep State poseur, in which case you're a national hero like Ulysses S. Flounder.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 03:32|| 2019-11-25 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Lincoln fired a lot of generals. Just saying.

You know the personnel system was ****** when successful battlefield commanders were not accelerated in promotion cause the 'system' was too bureaucratic. Fairness is not a word for the Darwinistic environment of combat and war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-25 06:50|| 2019-11-25 06:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Ref #4: The Army promotion system is a social petri dish and has been for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-25 06:54|| 2019-11-25 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 The navy record, inter alia:

Naval Academy Rocked By Drug Scandal;www.zerohedge .com/news/2018-02-24; Drug Ring Bought Cocaine With Bitcoin. Current reports estimate ten midshipmen were part of the elaborate scheme to supply midshipmen throughout the Naval Academy with powerful drugs including cocaine, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and Ketamine. ... the criminal ring used Bitcoins to purchase the drugs on the dark web then distributed the product throughout campus.

Two Dozen Expelled in Naval Academy Cheating Scandal By Paul Valentine The Washington Post. Navy Secretary John H. Dalton ordered 24 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen expelled Thursday in the biggest cheating scandal in the school's history, ending a wrenching 16-month investigation of the venerable military institution in Annapolis.

Posted by b 2019-11-25 07:24|| 2019-11-25 07:24|| Front Page Top

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