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Navy: Deployed CO Retreated to Cabin for Weeks
Military.com ^ | August 8, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 08/13/2014 3:05:44 PM PDT by QT3.14

A Navy investigation finds the ailing skipper of a San Diego-based Navy cruiser retreated to his cabin for several weeks in the middle of a deployment, leaving the 330-member crew leaderless.

The probe also revealed that the skipper of the USS Cowpens, Capt. Gregory W. Gombert, was having an improper and "unduly familiar" relationship with the cruiser's acting executive officer, U-T San Diego reported Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: destinysavage; fratenization; gregorygombert; military; navy; usscowpens
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To: Drew68

Fire duty, dragging hoses, carrying hurt men up/down ladders.


61 posted on 08/13/2014 3:38:19 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: petitfour

Surprised she didn’t block it yet.


62 posted on 08/13/2014 3:39:33 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

Or her husband who is standing beside her 100%. So maybe more to the story. Husband appears to be a Marine.


63 posted on 08/13/2014 3:41:36 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: cripplecreek

Time to start issuing Chastity belts to All


64 posted on 08/13/2014 3:42:50 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: QT3.14

I don’t think they should find a new name for our cruisers.


65 posted on 08/13/2014 3:43:01 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours IRS!)
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To: Jim Noble

Destiny Savage. You cannot make this stuff up. I’m sure that during her career as a pole dancer, she learned all that she needed to know about ship handling, celestial navigation, battle station drills, and general seamanship (if you know what I mean).


66 posted on 08/13/2014 3:44:31 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: petitfour

Every year the Navy has at least one mind blowing story regarding leadership failure. Remember that Captain of the submarine USS PITTSBURGH who had an affair with a girl in Virginia, and he was telling her he was a Navy Seal.


67 posted on 08/13/2014 3:44:53 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: QT3.14

The Navy mixed the sexes and now are reaping the predicted results. The stupidity and lack of common sense of our alleged “leadership” is mind boggling.


68 posted on 08/13/2014 3:46:04 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Drew68

“And what physically gruelling tasks would you find aboard a navy cruiser? “

Dragging a wounded sailor through and up a ship? Handling water lines? Oh, that’s right. This isn’t a Navy of war, this is a “peacetime navy” where nothing bad will ever happen.


69 posted on 08/13/2014 3:46:55 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: petitfour

It seems to be. Did you note at the bottom of the Facebook page a navy ship is listed?


70 posted on 08/13/2014 3:46:59 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: Hulka
Fire duty, dragging hoses, carrying hurt men up/down ladders.

All of which I've seen female members of damage control teams perform just fine.

In fact, with three deployments and multiple workups on co-ed ships under my belt, I'm truly hard-pressed to think of any job that can't be performed equally by both both sexes. It's not like sailors are humping 80 lbs rucksacks and sleeping in foxholes.

71 posted on 08/13/2014 3:47:13 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: petitfour

“He supports her completely”. (husband says on his FB page)


72 posted on 08/13/2014 3:48:32 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: JPG
Destiny Savage, a strippers name if i ever heard one...

seacows, feh

73 posted on 08/13/2014 3:49:49 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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To: Drew68

Sure.

I’ve never seen a female carry a 180lb load up/down a ladder or work loaded down with gear. . .hey, if you say it can be done. . .so be it.

(I’ll just go back to reading Weak Link and all its references to standards being lowered to accommodate females, as standards have been lowered in civilian fire departments, too.)


74 posted on 08/13/2014 3:50:03 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: QT3.14

The “Mighty Moo”...


75 posted on 08/13/2014 3:50:11 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: CodeToad

Hold on. . .he says he’s seen them do all of that no problem.

Must be true.


76 posted on 08/13/2014 3:51:02 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: castlegreyskull

Yes, that was a crazy story. I hear crazy Navy stories at least once a week. I am afraid they will get crazier with women on subs.

I always think of the Academy grad NASA diaper woman when I think of female officers in the Navy. I don’t know why. It is most likely unfair because I am sure there are a handful of sane women officers.


77 posted on 08/13/2014 3:51:51 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: centurion316

You said "seaman..." huh-huh-huh... huh-huh-huh...

-PJ

78 posted on 08/13/2014 3:52:11 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: QT3.14

I did not though I saw a bit of Navy info.


79 posted on 08/13/2014 3:53:13 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: QT3.14
Time was the only thing that would keep the Captain of U. S. Navy warship holed up in his cabin for weeks was strawberries.


80 posted on 08/13/2014 3:54:37 PM PDT by Pilsner
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