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2007-08-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Former Navy receiver takes a pass on military obligation

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Posted by tu3031 2007-08-30 10:52|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Not carrying on in the illustrious tradition of Roger Staubach.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-08-30 11:48|| 2007-08-30 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Four years as a non-rated seaman, hauling lines, swabbing decks and chipping paint, should give him a lot of time to think about his decision.
The sad thing is that he took an appointment that someone else could have used. Someone who might not have helped the Academy win football gabes, but someone who might have been an outstanding Naval officer.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-30 12:09|| 2007-08-30 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Staubach was what, a 30 year-old rookie with Dallas?

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-30 12:17|| 2007-08-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 If he expects to have a career outside of football, he just shot himself in the foot big time too.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-08-30 12:20|| 2007-08-30 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 put him on a small boy, as described by Rambler. he will really wish that he had stuck it out. And God forbid that he try to use the 'I went to Annapolis' routine when it comes to working with the HT's unclogging the plumbing......
HT= the Navy's answer to the Roto-Rooter man, among other desirable traits [think McGyver with a welding torch])

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-30 14:06|| 2007-08-30 14:06|| Front Page Top

#6 USN, ret - I was thinking more of putting him on the deck gang. The bosun's mates don't like Annapolis people any more than the HT's.
Too bad there aren't a lot of steam powered ships any more. He would do well on the boiler tender gang - nothing like crawling into a fire box and cleaning out the accumulated soot to humble a man.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-30 14:30|| 2007-08-30 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm willing to cut him some slack. Pobody's nerfect.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-08-30 14:33|| 2007-08-30 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 I say make him pay the money, rather than inflict him upon some poor long-suffering Chief somewhere.

Their job is hard enough.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-08-30 14:51|| 2007-08-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe the guy needs to go watch "Sargeant York" a few times until he understands that sometimes we do what needs to be done.

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-30 15:13|| 2007-08-30 15:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Hasn't he made it clear he didn't want to be in Annapolis to begin with?

Posted by lotp 2007-08-30 15:42|| 2007-08-30 15:42|| Front Page Top

#11 I dunno Rambler; swinging from a bosun's chair to chip the hull is (marginally)better) than donnning a full tyvek suit to work the CHT tank ( for non-navy, its pronounced just like sh!T, but the new spelling makes it printable)
and i would be willing to bet that all the ship's company divisions would love to have midshipmen dickweed for their own. and the Chief would probably be 'attending to matters elsewhere' if the poor lad had a 'problem....'
(worked for me in a past life, he said).

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-30 16:37|| 2007-08-30 16:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Yep, what rambler said. He took someone else's spot at the academy. Make him payback the money & cut him loose. To serve in the Military is a privelege, I wouldn't want that puke around my lads.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-08-30 21:15|| 2007-08-30 21:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Dragging God into your cowardice and misrepresentation? Despicable! If Jason Tomlinson ever plays in the NFL, I hereby promise to boycott his games.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-08-30 22:18|| 2007-08-30 22:18|| Front Page Top

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