Posted on 05/20/2023 10:29:10 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Drag performances took place on board the USS Ronald Reagan under the command of a Navy captain whose promotion to rear admiral is currently being blocked by Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
Capt. Michael Donnelly served as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan from April 2016 to September 2018. During that time period, Yeoman 2rd Class Joshua Kelley was performing as a drag queen at Morale, Welfare, and Recreation department-sanctioned events on the carrier under the drag name “Harpy Daniels.”
As commander of the USS Ronald Reagan, Donnelly would have been aware of, and responsible for, that activity, according to William Thibeau, director of The American Military Project at The Claremont Institute.
Donnelly declined to comment for this article through the U.S. Navy.
“Every military officer takes command of units large and small with the understanding they are responsible for everything that does and does not happen under their command,” Thibeau explained. “It’s the basic truth of military leadership, whether you command an infantry company or an aircraft carrier.”
“The USS Ronald Reagan drag shows of 2017 and 2018 were not random acts of entertainment for sailors, but were sanctioned Navy programs under the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) department of the ship,” he noted. “As commander of the ship, Captain Donnelly would have been ultimately responsible for this program.”
Thibeau also noted that large media outlets, such as NBC and the Military Times, had covered the drag shows during Donnelly’s tour—significant press attention that “would have been a standard reporting requirement directly to Captain Donnelly at the time.”
“My biggest performances here are the lip-sync competitions we hold to build up morale,” Kelley said in a August 2018 interview with NBC News.
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I crossed the equator. The day before, the men put on a show. Some were dressed as woman, but nothing like what is happening now. Ours was meant to be funny
You go, Coach Tubby.
The aftermath of tailhook turned the navy 180 degrees around. It was so bad that it leaked over into the air force and many o clubs shut down because, well, you weren’t allowed to have fun anymore.
Keelhaul him.
My Alabamian family mocks him. I ask for examples of his buffoonery. They got nothing.
Ha! Yep. Luther Billis in his coconut brassiere. I played the lead Emile DeBeque in a production of South Pacific many, many years ago. Fun show. We had a blast.
But isn’t “Rear” Admiral the appropriate rank for him (Her? It? Them?)?
Did you watch the 1939 videos in post 10 from the USS Marblehead?
I’m a bammer and the Auburn coach is legit.
Not recently. There is shellback ceremonies from the 1920’s. Now they were brutal at least by today’s standards. Had quite a few friends go through the ceremonies in the 60’s and 70’s.
That should nip that chit in the bud.
Not if a lib is involved. Nothing ever happened to Ralph Northam and worse, Ted Danson has continued to get TV series and commercials despite his very public appearance in blackface while he was involved with Whoopi Goldberg
It was fun. Not sexual indoctrination. Which is wholly what this business is.
People would laugh happily at Flip Wilson and Benny Hill because they recognized it as silly. This isn’t silly and isn’t for humor or fun.
People who say what is happening now is "humor" or "entertainment" and "people have been doing this for a long time" have only two excuses: They intentionally are not seeing it for their own purposes, or they really are that in-observant of the current state.
And I deliberately say in-observant to be polite.
That's what I can't quite figure out, why I'm curious.
I was based, long ago, at Cubi Point PI. I was on board USS Ranger when she had a port call at Pataya Beach, Thailand. (1989 +/-).
What exactly is this indoctrination? Done by the MWR department?
My son is a Marine Corp Officer, his college roommates are current USN officers. They aren't much different than I was, so I'm not sure the sailors have changed all that much either.
FYI, I'm not questioning the Senator, but there has to be more to this story.
Good.
Send him to establish an important US Naval base somewhere near the North pole.
Okay, I get the Drag Queen story hour is about grrooming kids etc. I get that.
This is an aircraft carrier. I've been on a number and did port calls. I've seen several aircraft carrier crews descend on Olongapo, PI.
In light of that knowledge, I'm struggling to wrap my head around this MWR drag show onboard a carrier????
there has to be more to this story.
I view it as indoctrination because the people doing the drag shows (and those pushing it from government and upper ranks) are not doing it to provide entertainment.
They are doing it to promote homosexuality as a tool to deconstruct the military in general and society in particular. And it was wholly sanctioned in that light by the Captain of the ship.
They are using it as a lever to enact social change.
Did you support open homosexuality when you served? I sure didn’t. I didn’t care as long as I didn’t have to see it, and they weren’t slurping on each other aboard ship. I figured that was their sexual peccadillo and their business, not mine.
You don’t see a difference between actors on a screen like Danny Thomas and Bing Crosby in “White Christmas”, some guy with coconuts for boobs (as my dad once did at the O-Club at the O-Club in Subic) or a guy wearing a dress and a head full of snakes for an equator crossing, as opposed to someone in command making a deliberate decision to bring someone on board a ship for a show BECAUSE he is a transvestite, and because it looks good in his record when he goes up for promotion with the woke SOB’s who are in charge now, after at least a decade of purges on those who believe the military is for warfighting, not social experimentation or transformation?
I don’t know what you were like in college or the Navy, so I cannot say what difference there might be between you back then and officers and sailors today, or your son and his college roommates.
But I do know one thing: Back then, if you expressed support for this kind of BS, your career would be over. Today, if you express any opposition to this BS, your career is over, and militantly so.
Good for Tuberville. Finally a Senator with a little backbone.
Yeah... it’s different. It’s the difference between Benny Hill or Flip Wilson and a pedophile at drag queen story hour twerking in a kid’s face.
Shellback ceremonies were mockery and fun. Drag queen parties in the modern Navy are immoral celebrations of homosexuality.
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