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Navy: Deployed CO Retreated to Cabin for Weeks
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| August 8, 2014
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Posted on 08/13/2014 3:05:44 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: Drew68
Sounds like you've had nothing but peacetime duty. Just wait til your ship has been shot up in an engagement with a Chinese or Russian vessel, or some ISIS-manned dingy has blown a bomb against the hull, or Iranian gunboats are strafing you. When you're lying there with your leg blown off or burning to death, I'm sure you'll feel great comfort when you see Destiny Savage mincing over to drag you to safety.
Whats that? Oh, I forgot. That sort of thing doesn't happen anymore. Nope, it can't happen at all...At all...
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:42:58 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: Drew68
Being performed by an officer? LOL!
To: molson209
And what physically grueling tasks would you find aboard a navy cruiser? In peacetime? Very few.
In combat, with the ship hit and in flames, and the need to wrestle heavy hoses to put out fires, drag wounded men to safety, and wrestle heavy metal patches into place at holes to stop water from flooding in? Potentially quite a lot.
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:49:01 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Drew68
All of which I've seen female members of damage control teams perform just fine. For how long? A half hour drill? How many hours were people working damage control on the USS Cole?
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:59:28 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: PapaBear3625
The Cowpens must be an unlucky ship; one of the previous CO’s was no other than “horrible” Holly Graf who was fired for physically and verbally abusing the crew, and falsifying the ship’s log.
After Horrible Holly, an absentee skipper might have been a welcome reprieve. Still, that doesn’t excuse his conduct as a CO. One thing I admire the Navy for: unlike my old branch (the USAF), the naval service is quick to get rid of COs, XOs and CMCs who don’t measure up.
To: Neanderthal
Students for Barack Obama...Barack Obama...Chick-fil-A Boycott For Being Anti-Gay... Just about covers her agenda.
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posted on
08/13/2014 5:07:09 PM PDT
by
QT3.14
(USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
To: PapaBear3625
For how long? A half hour drill? How many hours were people working damage control on the USS Cole? Good question. I don't know. I wasn't among the men and women who kept USS Cole from sinking.
Cole was a co-ed ship. In fact, 2 out of the 17 sailors killed were female. But they kept their ship afloat.
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posted on
08/13/2014 5:07:41 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: GeronL
To: B212
they say that in the Army the women are mighty fine, well they look like Phyllis Diller and march like Frankenstein...
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posted on
08/13/2014 5:44:36 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
To: QT3.14
saw that w my 1sg in Iraq.
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posted on
08/13/2014 7:28:09 PM PDT
by
CPT Clay
(Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
To: GeronL
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posted on
08/13/2014 8:12:41 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
To: Drew68
I have a couple more years at sea than you have in the Navy (all on Submarines), retired as a Red Stripe Senior Chief.
Also spent 4 years in the USMC before joining the Navy.
I agree with your statement and confirm it. The Israeli Army (IDF) does it right. They assign females to tasks that they can accomplish, and, also, assign males to tasks that they can accomplish. Not according to some fancy feel good politically correct policy, but according to ability.
Sorry that I didn’t reply sooner, I was out killing the last remaining healthy brain cells that I had.
Semper Fi and I wish you following seas and smooth sailing.
HLB
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posted on
08/13/2014 8:19:40 PM PDT
by
HippyLoggerBiker
(Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
To: Drew68
“perform just fine.”
Maybe you believe that; I don’t.
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posted on
08/13/2014 8:55:34 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: tet68
She's fun-sized
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posted on
08/13/2014 9:37:08 PM PDT
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Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
To: BenLurkin
She, at least, looks like she could out-run the porker on the right.
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posted on
08/14/2014 3:37:39 AM PDT
by
Makana
To: Tijeras_Slim
Destiny Savage - cruise director.
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posted on
08/14/2014 3:57:11 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
To: Oztrich Boy
“Fun-sized”
In war she could be a tunnel rat.
I used to date a short girl; while she was self-conscious about it (successfully begging Motor Vehicles to put 5’ on her license when she was 4’ 11”), I’d tell her it was cool that she could fit in small spaces like a hobbit. We never saw eye-to-eye on it...
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posted on
08/14/2014 4:12:50 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Drew68
And your reply is proof of just how far we have fallen from being truly combat ready and how deep the kool-aid drinkers have eroded the warrior ethos.
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posted on
08/14/2014 6:25:18 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: Oztrich Boy
looks like a little girl playing dress-up...
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posted on
08/14/2014 4:13:41 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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