Attack Stalls ex-Cole Skipper's Career

The Modesto Bee ^ | 24 April 2006 | James Rosen - Bee Washington Bureau

[Diver Dave]

Once on fast track to be captain, Kirk Lippold now works at a desk. Last in a two-part series. WASHINGTON -- For 5½ years, the Washington military and political establishment has not known quite what to do with Kirk Lippold.

Cmdr. Lippold was the skipper of the USS Cole when al-Qaida terrorists committed a suicide bombing in the Yemen port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000.

The attack, from a small barge that pulled alongside the Cole, blew a 40-by-40-foot hole in the guided-missile destroyer. Seventeen sailors died and 42 were wounded.

After he led an intense three-week effort to prevent the Cole from sinking, the Navy gave Lippold a medal for having saved the $1 billion ship, prevented further loss of life and maintained the moral of his traumatized crew.

[Diver Dave]

Part Two of a two-part story, and nary a word that the USS COLE attack happened under Clinton, Berger, Cohen, Albright, Gorelick, watchful eyes.

Part One - FR thread with link to article

Families of Cole victims split on ship commander

[stuartcr]

Yeah, or even who was in charge on 9/11!!!

[butternut_squash_bisque]

The OTM (Old Tired Media) would be negligent in their seditious and treasonous jobs, if they reported the facts and truth.

The Enemy Within™ slithers on...

[rlmorel]

Grrrrr...can't these newspapers even get military stuff right???

It's CDR Lippold, not CMDR Lippold!

Gah.

[SittinYonder]

and maintained the moral of his traumatized crew

And I guess the moral is if a boat load of Muslims is coming toward you, shoot first.

[rlmorel]

And for the record...no way he should be prosecuted or punished.

[cardinal4]

After he led an intense three-week effort to prevent the Cole from sinking, the Navy gave Lippold a medal for having saved the $1 billion ship, prevented further loss of life and maintained the moral of his traumatized crew.

For cripes sake, learn how to spell! I expect even the lamestream media to at least know how to spell!

[hedgie]

No surprises to me here. The Navy benches skippers for scraping the paint on their command. At least that's the impression this landlubber has always had.

[DesScorp]

"The Enemy Within™ slithers on..."

The 4th Estate is a 5th Column

[SittinYonder]

The Enemy Within™ slithers on...

Why do you take issue with this story?

[colorado tanker]

I learned from one of Miniter's books, I think, that Al Qaeda first tried to attack the USS The Sullivans while refueling in Yemen, but they miscalculated their load factors and never made it to the ship. Someone really does watch over The Sullivans.

[rlmorel]

Maybe...it's them!

[SFC Chromey]

maintained the moral of his traumatized crew.

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but, but, but... their spell check didn't catch it! LOL

[Coldwater Creek]

That is exactly what the Cole crew should have done. Oh! wait Clinton did not allow them to have ammo in their weapons.

[noobiangod]

Klinton didn't allow access to armor or apache gunship support during the Rangers, SEALs and Delta missions in Somalia either.

Blackhawk Down would have been a very boring movie had the troops been properly supported with tanks and apaches.

[webheart]

You learn something every day! This story says a barge, I had always thought it was a motorized inflatable boat. What an idiot I am!

[colorado tanker]

LOL! I think so.

[stuartcr]

???

[bigbob]

The fact that Cdr. Lippold personally visited family members of those killed in the USS Cole attack speaks volumes about the kind of man he is. I for one would certainly trust this man at the pointy edge of the spear.

[Coldwater Creek]

Whatever happened was not the fault of the CDR., but those two stupid women Maddy not so bright and I forget the name of the Yemni woman official,

Where can we go to get this good man's rank for him.

We were in Va. Beach the day that the Cole was bombed. It was horrible. All of the Hampton Roads area was shaken to the core.