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A Navy lieutenant no more
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 4/18/08 | MIKE BARBER

Posted on 04/19/2008 11:09:14 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

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To: kiriath_jearim
It cannibalizes the Navy -- and Air Force -- to cover up a shortage of Army and Marine troops to fight the wars, she argues.

Since the Navy hasn't been needed as much in this War, why NOT move folks around? If they have skills that can be utilized on the ground, it's a good idea to put them there, and free up a ground pounder to do the job he or she has been trained to do.

41 posted on 04/19/2008 12:58:52 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: kiriath_jearim

Then get her the hell out.


42 posted on 04/19/2008 2:15:47 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: goldstategop
Some people are still unfamiliar with military life in this country.

How familiar are you?

43 posted on 04/19/2008 2:18:40 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: SuziQ
Since the Navy hasn't been needed as much in this War, why NOT move folks around?

Sure. Let's take dentists and send them over there to do surgery. Let's take Navy lawyers and put them in command of Army infantry companies. Taking a person and sticking them in a position that they are untrained for just to put a body there is a waste of talent and can endanger the lives of others.

44 posted on 04/19/2008 2:20:48 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Drive off Golden State GOP, I think that we are the only ones who know who Manuel II Palelologus was.


45 posted on 04/19/2008 2:27:30 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

This reminds me of the early days of Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan when the Special Forces guys would patch through audio from the female AC-130 pilot overhead onto the Taliban frequencies. She would say that she was delivering retribution for the way they treated their women.

These troglodytes need to get with the program.

So does this bimbo.


46 posted on 04/19/2008 2:34:49 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: kiriath_jearim
"Assigned to arduous sea duty ... ," her commander wrote in one review.

I like seeing journalists who know nothing about the Navy evaluation system pick out bullets. Even Joe Sh*t the Rag Man gets this in his eval if he is assigned to a forward-deployed ship in Japan like Essex. Everyone does-it's SOP.

I also thought it was interesting that that after 4 years active duty she received low marks in professional expertise. So much for the hard charger claim. I wonder if she complained about having no training as a Public Affairs Officer when they assigned her that job at the reserve command?

47 posted on 04/19/2008 5:17:38 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: goldstategop

Do you think he’s spent as much ink on any of the Medal of Honor awardees since 2001? I highly doubt it, because I did a search and didn’t find any.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mike+Barber+Medal+of+Honor&btnG=Google+Search

“Its a shame he had to do a profile on her when there are a lot more deserving people he could have covered....”


48 posted on 04/19/2008 10:14:57 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists inside and outside our borders, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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