USS Midway staffers fired over metals

utsandiego ^ | Jan. 30, 2013 | Jeff McDonald

[Rabin]

Fourteen employees of the USS Midway Museum engineering department have been fired after officials discovered metals from the "historic" aircraft carrier were being sold off “..big time in the recycling but only a portion of the money was returned said the nonprofit to its "volunteers." This involves hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years... it had been going on for some time.” Museum officials informed 150 employees.

[Rabin]

USS Midway, was commissioned a week after the end of World War II

Rab.

[zeestephen]

I thought the author meant “medals” until I read the article.

[ApplegateRanch]

So did I. Instead of stolen valor, it’s stolen “scrap” metal.

Well, it’s scrap after they finish with it, anyway.

[BobL]

“I thought the author meant “medals” until I read the article.”

Rare, but a journalist got something right, for once.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“How you rike dat scrap metal now, GI”. (Oblique reference to World War II movie cliche and an e.e. cummings’ “plato told/him”.)

http://www.inmattsmind.com/2004/10/21/plato-told/

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“How you rike dat scrap metal now, GI”. (Oblique reference to World War II movie cliche and an e.e. cummings’ “plato told/him”.)

http://www.inmattsmind.com/2004/10/21/plato-told/

[joe fonebone]

Or, as she affectionately called, the USS Neverdock....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Midway is a great, full day tour for first timers in San Diego.