Posted on 04/17/2016 4:47:23 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Moral Equivalence is only a propaganda tool,
for those without scruple or honor.
Close enough: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/75/7514.htm
...no way Mabus did this on his own. This has Odungos stink all over It
The christening of this ship with Levin’s name is despicable in my opinion. So much so it prompted me to wonder if Ray Mabus had ever been in the military at all.
Mabus is two years older than me and he served as an officer in the US Navy from 1970-1972 aboard a surface ship. I am no dummy and only 2 years in the Navy, or Air Force only indicates one or two things.
At that time the draft as implemented was for 2 years active and 4 years reserve. The Navy and Air Force would take certain draftees at that time but their active duty term was 4 years and 2 inactive reserve.
If he got drafted and then got in the Navy somehow, he’d have served 4 years. He served two years as an officer (he’d presumably had a college degree on entering). How is that? Wounded and medically discharged? Convenience of the Navy? Discharged for some other reason? Sure makes me curious how this man could be a Secretary of the Navy.
I could be completely wrong. I’m just going on my own experiences at the time and seeing how people get out early.
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Churchill was also given an honorary US citizenship. His mother was American after all.
The passive-aggressive response would have USN personnel refer to all ships by their hull numbers only. Correct, concise and accurate at all times.
F’em
The Bergdahl will probably be a tugboat but he'll call it a battleship.
Maybe he was in the Jagoff office??
I don’t recall the air force or navy drafting during the war, the Marines did and the term of service was 2 years active and 4 years reserve I believe.
One way he could have served less than 4 in the active navy would be if he had a sibling KIA and his mom cited sole support for a discharge. Unfortunately this happened to my best friend’s brother after my pal was killed in 65.
They’ll probably save Barney Frank for the submarines.
Homos.
While abhorrent not to select military figures and heroes for naming, it’s not unprecedented. I spent a good amount of time on the Charles F. Adams, which was named after someone who never served, and basically got his appointment to Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover by being a rich, yatch-racing, donating, decendant member of the John Adams family line.
At that point, the ship might as well be named the "U.S.S. Anal Sex."
U.S.S. Barney Frank
= = =
That would be an LPD with a well deck.
Hopefully, with a new, proper President and a new Sec. of Defense, that can be changed.
The 'Barack Obama' headed for America's shors
He may appoint a secretary of defense, but the old, haggard secretary of state should be hanged!
Mabus is a political hack Harvard Law graduate.
He is nothing but a Dem party crowd pleaser.
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