Posted on 01/07/2006 11:26:27 AM PST by pabianice
it will be called "torture" and you know for sure
all of the Dems in the legislative branch will surely
call for an investigation. (probably cause they want
to hear naughty words from someone who means it, and
who isn't being paid(one way or another) to say it)
It's stupid, and the Lt. is a dullard, but that in no way, shape, or form makes him deserving of a court martial.
"When y'all come to attention I wanna hear fifty pussies suckin' wind!" I wonder how the squiff DIs address recruits now-a-days. I remember how I got the shjt slapped out'a me for sleeping under my rack - I wasn't on it, jeez.
"If you do not tell us everything, we will use....limericks"
"Never"
"There once was a man from Nantucket.."
"The invasion begins at 6AM. No more!!"
FMCDH(BITS)
IMHO, Lt. Bryan's most grievous offense was to demonstrate a total lack of situational awareness. Depending on the environment, this can get you punished or killed.
Some of the female soldiers I worked with in Iraq.... well, it would have been funny to see some dummy like the Annapolis Lt. say something they didn't like. They didn't have chips on their shoulders, but they had fully adapted to military life (and language).
I'm wondering if rank (or worse E- vs. O-) might play a role here. I'm sure it would. With us civvies there was none of that tension, so the soldiers were pretty much themselves.
He was an instructor at the naval academy and asked a subordinate if she was aroused. He is stupid beyond words.
Anyone defending him as that poor victim. I guess when your wife is at work and her boss ask her if his pencil arouses her you will be good with it. The USNA is supposed to teach professionalism to future officers. This guy is a fool and knew better.
I wonder if Adm. Rempt's nickname is REMF.
Uh, you didn't think about my post at all before you made this ridiculous assertion, did you.
I believe the reprimand was appropriate, possible suspension would be OK. The threat of firing, etc.
Giving him a court martial is like calling the police and going to criminal court for making your remark about pencils.
That is a ridiculous proposition. It stinks to the high-heavens of addlebrained, thoughtless PC madness.
Do you have even thimblefull of understanding about the seriousness of a court martial? Do you? The guy's career is literally ruined because he made one stupid and boorish remark.
Like all PC remedies, the solution is far more unreasonable than the cause.
Women should be in the military, if they can meet the same high standards as the men. if they can't cut it, then they shouldn't be there.
Sure seems like it. He's nearing retirement at his peak, and he screws some younger Lt. in the name of .....what? PC?
Uh, you are defensive and didn't realize I was agreeing with you. Relax, take a deep breath. His career was over with out the court-martial as he will be relieved of his teaching duties. And as I have been instructor at TBS for the USMC I have no pity for his plight. He would have been sent packing as a Marine also. He absolutely knew what he said was wrong before he did it.
My wife and I have some sex signals.
When she wants sex she is supposed to reach over and yank it once.
When she doesn't want sex she is supposed to reach over and yank it a hundred times.
"Lt. Black made "a crude remark" in the presence of a female midshipman, Samantha Foxton, about how a battleship sexually arouses him. He suggested how it might arouse her."
I would expect that if the comment was directed at my daughter, she,having chosen to be in the Navy,and being descended from a long line of miitary men, would have been able to come up with a a reply that would have left Lt. Black speechless. Sounds as if you could have done the same too!
"Do you have even thimblefull of understanding about the seriousness of a court martial? Do you? The guy's career is literally ruined because he made one stupid and boorish remark."
I know what you're saying, but .....
The military is an organization that is designed to function in the ultimate extreme situation - war. With a strict command-and-control heirarchy, it can only do that when there's respect and trust between the leaders and those led. Isn't that why there are rules about behavior between the two? Troops must respect their leaders, and vice versa.
What he did violated that spirit. He should have known better - ESPECIALLY as a leader.
Actually what he was saying was I have no idea about a sewing implement. Of course as he is somewhat clueless he would understand that the court-martial is besides the point to this leader who sacrificed his career in order to ask a subordinate if she was aroused by a battleship. I would love to hear the sound of a 16 inch gun, but find it hard to get aroused by the thought of one personally. A GBU 12 whistling in, that does bring a smile though.
"How is the play any different from what was said in the supposed "crude remark"?"
All American troops should be ordered to view GI Jane.
S**k My Dick!!!!!!!!
Hoo Ah!!!!!!
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