[Mariner]

“How smart was it giving Bannon NSC creds?”

Bannon was a US Navy Captain (O6) and an intelligence officer.

Do you believe he is a risk?

[LS]

Absolutely not. What I’m saying is, how foresighted to get one of “his own” inside the NSC loop.

[kabar]

Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, serving on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a surface warfare officer in the Pacific Fleet and stateside as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon. Upon his departure he was ranked as a lieutenant (O-3).

Stephen Kevin Bannon was born on November 27, 1953, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Doris (née Herr) and Martin Bannon, a telephone lineman.] His working class, Irish Catholic family were pro-Kennedy, pro-union Democrats. After serving as president of the student government association, he graduated from Virginia Tech in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in urban planning and holds a master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In 1985, Bannon received a Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Harvard Business School.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I bet you can find at least 15 people in Obama’s inner circle who presented a greater security risk than Steve Bannon.

[GreyFriar]

Bannon was a Lieutenant, O-3, equal to an Army or Air Force Captain. He was NOT, after 7 years in the Navy a Captain, O-6, when he left active duty. He was a surface warfare officer, ran the engineering section and was later the ship’s navigator for the destroyer to which he was assigned. He may have done intel during his Pentagon tour.