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2006-01-17 Britain

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And I can show through geometric logic that there was a second set of keys to the strawberry locker.

Posted by Shereting Hupenter8025 2006-01-17 07:08|| 2006-01-17 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 When I was studying law, and Mr. Hupenter here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. Oh, no! We knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? Tarrant did! And a lot of other guys, tough, sharp guys who didn't crack up like Tarrant.

Posted by Barney Greenwald 2006-01-17 07:54|| 2006-01-17 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Good Lord! Have these people not read the Horatio Hornblower stories? If the officers can't handle a little shouting during drills, how would they survive being shot at -- let alone keeping their crew steady?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-17 08:04|| 2006-01-17 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 In his book about submarines Tom Clancy (he writes documntary books about military in addition to fiction) tells that despite inferior technology British submarines were more feared than American ones by the bad guys due to the quality of their captains. The selection process is absolutely brutal and involves an exam where several surface
combattants are charging the submarine from all around it. If the appliant fails he will not given a second chance: he will never command a submarine. While the standards for non-captains aren't and don't need to be as high a submarine is no place for sissies who can be reduced to tears by rants however brutal.

I don't know if this guy is merely a demandiong officer or a modern Captain Bligh (more exactly: not the real Captain Bligh but the Captain Bligh depicted in the "Bounty" movie with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable) but I know for sure that those officers have no place in submarines and the people who validated them have no place in the Navy.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-01-17 08:21|| 2006-01-17 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM,
I had the same thought you did re: Clancy's sub book. The course is called 'Perisher'.
It's indeed possible that in this case an oddball somehow got through the system - it's happened a LOT in the USN (Google 'The Arnheiter Affair', and then read it all the way through) and USAF. But the comments from the junior officers in this case sound a bit...well, whiny.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-17 11:56|| 2006-01-17 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 All I can say is that I would never admit that a CO made me cry...

Posted by Mark E. 2006-01-17 14:56|| 2006-01-17 14:56|| Front Page Top

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