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He's An Impostor, The Navy Says About Cap'n Crunch
National Public Radio ^ | June 20, 201312:01 PM | Eyder Peralta

Posted on 06/21/2013 8:39:04 AM PDT by haffast

We don't know how, but we missed a major scandal brewing in the Navy for decades. It's important, so even if we're a little late to the story we still wanted to point it out: Cap'n Crunch is an impostor.

The Cap'n , who noticed the uniform he wears on cereal boxes had the stripes of a commander, not a captain. That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.

As the story spread, the Navy confirmed what you might be fearing: Cap'n Crunch is a fraud, tricking innocent children since his introduction in 1963.

The Navy (paywall):

" 'You are correct that Cap'n Crunch appears to be wearing the rank of a U.S. Navy commander,' Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Flaherty, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman, tells Foreign Policy. 'Oddly, our personnel records do not show a "Cap'n Crunch" who currently serves or has served in the Navy.' "

What's more: We put our investigative reporter hat on and went digging. We pulled up and they showed that on some occasions he sported one stripe, on others two.

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To: haffast
Its all good! We also have a major-league ball-player masquerading as a children's cereal.


21 posted on 06/21/2013 9:08:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: haffast

Clearly an attempt by the USN to create a distraction through the weekend news cycle from the renewed interest in whether one of their Aegis ships popped off a missile that shot down TWA 800 ...


22 posted on 06/21/2013 9:10:54 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Cap'n Crunch

Pinging the poseur....


23 posted on 06/21/2013 9:10:56 AM PDT by mikrofon (Explain! ;)
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To: haffast

Clearly an attempt by the USN to create a distraction through the weekend news cycle from the renewed interest in whether one of their Aegis ships popped off a missile that shot down TWA 800 ...


24 posted on 06/21/2013 9:12:17 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: haffast

Another childhood icon sullied. What’s this world coming to?


25 posted on 06/21/2013 9:18:43 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: haffast




He also only has 3 fingers on each hand.

Perhaps there is a relation.




26 posted on 06/21/2013 9:18:59 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It’s worse than that. When he was with the Red Sox I saw him “fly” horizontally about 15 feet to catch a line drive. Coco Crisp is really Batman.


27 posted on 06/21/2013 9:20:48 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: edcoil
" Chief’s of all ranks called Chief except for the Master Chief. He is referred to as Master Chief."

Master Chief Sucks At HALO...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3br1q5wIQ

28 posted on 06/21/2013 9:22:26 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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29 posted on 06/21/2013 9:24:26 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: Durbin

Next their going to be telling me Count Chocula isn’t real.


30 posted on 06/21/2013 9:24:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: haffast
Guess which Minnesota Senator was the inspiration for this:


31 posted on 06/21/2013 9:29:31 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: haffast

My question is... what scandal prevented Cap’n Crunch and Captain Kangaroo from being promoted?

And, dammit... what rank is Popeye?


32 posted on 06/21/2013 9:34:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: haffast

In addition he only has four fingers on each hand.


33 posted on 06/21/2013 9:42:44 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: haffast

Posted yesterday:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3033639/posts


34 posted on 06/21/2013 9:48:48 AM PDT by DManA
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To: haffast

“That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.”

Yeah but the rest of his uniform looks legit.


35 posted on 06/21/2013 9:59:53 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: haffast

Obama will promote him to Rear Admiral .


36 posted on 06/21/2013 10:04:47 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: haffast
The Cap'n , who noticed the uniform he wears on cereal boxes had the stripes of a commander, not a captain. That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.

1. Cartoon character

2. Not a USN uniform

3. Captain is both formal and positional. An Ensign in charge of a ship is the captain, although the Captain on the dock is a Captain, but not the captain.

4. NPR must not have gotten any Lefty faxes today, so they had to research the cereal box.

37 posted on 06/21/2013 10:04:56 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Is that Coco Crisp LOL


38 posted on 06/21/2013 10:06:10 AM PDT by angcat
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To: haffast

He’s the Captain of his ship.


39 posted on 06/21/2013 10:15:44 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

So I guess the big C on his hat only stands for Crunch.
That explains why it is not CC


40 posted on 06/21/2013 11:04:46 AM PDT by shineon
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