[FinallyBackInNH]

Maybe he could head to New Orleans to oversee the pumping efforts... Who else is as experienced at plugging leaks by this point?

[GSlob]

No matter whose derriere is filling the chair, the chair is always filled by a derriere. Thus the change is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

[Brilliant]

30 years ago, he would have been sent to a gulag.

[Tallguy]

The admiral is forced to retract a critical statement in the wake of the Kursk accident -- a statement critical of the condition of one of their biggest fleet units -- then he gets sacked for not speaking out prior to the mini-sub accident? This guy can't win for losing.