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USS Enterprise Capt. Owen Honors Temporarily Relieved of Duty
ABC News ^ | Jan. 3, 2011 | KIRIT RADIA

Posted on 01/03/2011 5:49:42 PM PST by americanophile

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To: elcid1970

Obama and his f@gs are jealous of women and their boobies. It is obvious. Just look at him talk about Palin. Just look at Elearnor Kagan, the way she is dressed, her obvious persecuted marxism and the way they absurdly praise her.


181 posted on 01/04/2011 8:55:42 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Bushbacker1

The pussification of the US Navy military is underway.

I would agree, except for one fact. The awesome men in the military will have a lot to say.


182 posted on 01/04/2011 9:22:07 AM PST by gunner03
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To: americanophile

A leak like this that requires four to five years sounds like a whole ‘nuther agenda.


183 posted on 01/04/2011 10:57:57 AM PST by stevem
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To: buccaneer81

“Drop dead.”

Thank you for your suggestion.


184 posted on 01/04/2011 11:15:47 AM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz (HALLELUJAH)
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To: JadeEmperor

Even that Republic killer Lincoln knew what to do with the press.
The leftist press is in the business of character assasination.
They cannot be left unmolested. That’s how you get Pelosi in the Speakers Chair and a foreign communist in the WH


185 posted on 01/04/2011 11:32:15 AM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Rome2000
The leftist press is in the business of character assasination. They cannot be left unmolested.

This should be JOB ONE. There can be NO recovering from the last 50 years of creeping statism without challenging the bastards.

FNC ain't enough. Alternative outlets need to stop allowing their own agenda to be set by the NYT and broadcast news.

186 posted on 01/04/2011 12:23:53 PM PST by skeeter
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To: MrEdd
"Sounds like old Richard Pryor material"

"We got some new ni@#@#s now!" -- LOL

I always loved Pryor's standup routine!

187 posted on 01/04/2011 2:45:24 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: buccaneer81
Article 133—Conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman
a. Text of statute.
Any commissioned officer, cadet, or midshipman
who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer
and a gentleman shall be punished as a courtmartial
may direct.

B,. Nature of offense. Conduct violative of this
article is action or behavior in an official capacity
which, in dishonoring or disgracing the person as an
officer, seriously compromises the officer’s character
as a gentleman, or action or behavior in an unofficial
or private capacity which, in dishonoring or
disgracing the officer personally, seriously compromises
the person’s standing as an officer. There are
certain moral attributes common to the ideal officer
and the perfect gentleman, a lack of which is indicated
by acts of dishonesty, unfair dealing, indecency,
indecorum, lawlessness, injustice, or cruelty. Not
everyone is or can be expected to meet unrealistically
high moral standards, but there is a limit of
tolerance based on customs of the service and military
necessity below which the personal standards of
an officer, cadet, or midshipman cannot fall without
seriously compromising the person’s standing as an
officer, cadet, or midshipman or the person’s character
as a gentleman. . . .

188 posted on 01/04/2011 3:52:09 PM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: GAB-1955
Having never served in the navy, I'll ask this....Wouldn't King Neptune's Court fall under those regulations as well?

Just asking; I think it sounds pretty cool.

189 posted on 01/04/2011 4:54:10 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: americanophile

I guess they lost the memo that humor is the best morale builder available, and Captain Honors was the master of it. I’d love to see the whole thing for enjoyment purposes alone.


190 posted on 01/04/2011 5:02:09 PM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: buccaneer81

There are those things which are “the customs of the sea,” but even there there are limits.

The issue is not Captain Honors’ fighting ability or technical skill; the problem is that a full captain is acting like an ensign who didn’t know better.

When I was a second lieutenant, with newly minted butter bars, I made a comment in jest with one of my sergeants. My captain called me in and chewed me out. An officer can’t be “one of the boys”; he or she must lead his or her men. He must never be cruel; he must never baby his soldiers or sailors; he must lead.

As John Paul Jones, our first naval hero said, ““It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.’””

I can’t see Decatur, Dewey, Sims, King, Nimitz, or Halsey doing this.

Some officers don’t make it to the top because they do not master politics. Captain Honors made it high, but not high enough.


191 posted on 01/04/2011 5:05:32 PM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: mylife
I have told the Skipper we need to scrap surveillance and take the boat deep for maintenance....The Skipper said “you have 2 hours” I never felt so much pressure in mylife.

As Comm/EMO I've been there, supported the maintenance with the CO and sat in the radio shack for the duration keeping the Naviguesser out of my men's $4it so they could get on with doing what they knew how to do and he didn't.

192 posted on 01/04/2011 5:24:58 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

It’s a lot of pressure to be in that situation.
Ya best come through. LoL

Sounds like you were a good officer.


193 posted on 01/04/2011 5:32:37 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: GAB-1955
Nimitz

Nimitz was a submariner in the days when the kind of wusses now running the show "tripped" and "fell overboard" and were lost at sea.

194 posted on 01/04/2011 6:06:52 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: csmusaret

I’ve been asking that, too. I thought the captain was also held responsible; how could the then-captain not know? Aren’t secrets fairly difficult to keep on ships?


195 posted on 01/04/2011 7:21:22 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: PGR88

Using the logic of forced school bussing, they will make fags and Christians bunkmates...room mates, buddies for life if possible.


196 posted on 01/04/2011 9:03:57 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: DBeers
Restricting the usage of words is a deliberate pruning of human thought.

If you cannot use a derogatory name, then people will not think badly of others. So the logic goes with these people.

The truth is, people will lose all of their freedom, ala the novel 1984.

Since "gay" is now the correct term, you would think it is OK to use it, but no. Children in school use it to mean an insult to lots of things, the show is no good...it is gay, those pants are gay. That is bad, so the G, Q and Fa words are now restricted, only G's, Q's, and Faggots can use them.

Like the N word, it is restricted to black people. Notice the pattern?

The thing that really sucks is although white people fought and died to institute a country where Blacks, homosexuals, muslims, and all people are accepted and protected, the white people are restricted and closely monitored, especially conservative white men.

We shouldn't worry though because freedom is allowed in the Prole class. They are the people that will rise up and free us all from Big Thithy.

197 posted on 01/04/2011 9:20:27 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: DBeers

Not big mommy govt, but BIG THITHH.


198 posted on 01/04/2011 9:22:06 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: Publius

Uhhhhhhhh, human bodies are very hard to burn and are more likely to put a fire out than help to “kindle” one.


199 posted on 01/04/2011 9:23:54 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: YankeeReb

I agree.


200 posted on 01/05/2011 8:01:35 AM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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