Posted on 04/24/2014 12:15:17 PM PDT by servo1969
Conservatives have noticed that the Pentagon is firing officers left and right, with many leaving under an embarrassing cloud. The question they ask — and I don't know that anyone has an answer — is whether these firings are the legitimate and appropriate housecleaning that a sclerotic bureaucracy needs or whether they're a purge, with Obama's New Age, gender flexible, fighting optional military getting rid of people in command positions who actually think that the military's job is to wage war in America's defense.
All I know is that the latest person being investigated as a predicate to an inevitable firing is someone I've actually met. Back in October 2009, I got the opportunity to attend a party that had, as its guests, members of the Blue Angels. I wrote about it here. I also included a photograph I took of all the guys (plus two gals) lined up:
Please take special notice of the guy in the center (or more accurately, sixth from the left). We spent a few minutes speaking with him and found him to be — as all these officers were — personable, intelligent, and respectful.
Now, though, a debate rages about just how respectful this specific officer actually was:
A former commanding officer of the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, has been removed from his current post after accusations that he ‘tolerated an inappropriate work environment.’
Capt. Gregory McWherter allowed, and in some cases encouraged, sexually explicit humor and inappropriate comments among members of the famed precision flying team, the U.S. Navy contended on Wednesday.
McWherter was relieved of duty as executive officer of Naval Base Coronado on Friday after a complaint was filed with the Navy's inspector general about an ‘inappropriate command climate’ at the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron based at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
During his two stints as Blue Angels leader between 2008 and 2012, McWherter ‘tolerated an inappropriate work environment within the squadron which may have violated the Navy's sexual harassment, hazing and equal opportunity policies,’ a Navy statement said.
‘The complaint alleges that lewd speech, inappropriate comments, and sexually explicit humor were allowed in the workplace and in some case encouraged by the commanding officer,’ and that ‘pornographic images were displayed in the workplace and shared in electronic communications,’ the statement said.
Significantly, McWherter got a strong vote of support from a woman who served under his command:
"At one point there was a command survey and one came back that men didn't treat women fairly," Melinda Cary, who served under McWherter during 2006 to 2008, told The News Journal.
"The first thing he did was bring us to talk about who was telling jokes. And he went out, and, I guess, set them straight. He followed up and made sure we weren't still having trouble."
Maybe McWherter is a sexist pig who ought never to have been allowed a command. Or maybe he's an old-fashioned warrior who is making too much trouble in a modern military determined to serve as a giant Leftist social experiment, rather than hewing to its traditional responsibility as America's protector.
they want yes men...obedient men...they do not want patriots...
frankly the biggest patriot in America is a slightly built mother of 6 named Sarah....
and I'd love you tell my mother this trust crap after she served in WW2.....
Or in loose fitting frocks.
This administration wants a military that will shoot American civilians without hesitation. All military personnel will be female, gay, black, Mexicans, Asians and Non-Christians. When the time comes these people will happily shoot and probably torture any opposition to governmental mandates.
we had 600 ships when Bush the sr left office (Reagan’s navy)
we had 200 main ships when BJClinton left office.
that was 14 yrs ago
“Capt. Gregory McWherter allowed, and in some cases encouraged, sexually explicit humor and inappropriate comments among members of the famed precision flying team, the U.S. Navy contended on Wednesday.”
For whatever it is worth, I hear sexually explicit humor and inappropriate comments all the time here in the senior citizens home, from very prim and proper elderly conservative christian folk.
Such humor is a stress reliever from the aches, pains, and mobility issues, giving everyone a break from the frailties of elder hood and infirmity.
For those in the military, I would think it fills a similar need - a break from the tedium of constant training, hours of boredom, then moments of sheer tension and terror.
What the heck is wrong with off color jokes, innuendo, and inappropriate comments in the military. It isn’t exactly a Baptist church, you know.
This should make the cadets in our military academies either nervous (same could happen to them) or perhaps hopeful for fast career advancement in order to plug the holes left by those being fired.
“....you have a military to kill people and break things.”
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Perhaps this administration wants to make sure that the military that is left over after all the firings, is one willing to kill people and break anything American.
You’re right. Everyone knows that they are awesome bosses, easy to get along with as coworkers, and super soldiers. It’s only me that thinks that/ it was probably a man who complained on that blue Angel leader. Feel better now?
And I’d like to hear your mommy explain to us if she ever saw sexual innuendo in WWII nose art, saw a pin up girl or was aware of them, or if all the men in WWII never chased women back then. Get real.
Sexual misconduct is going on in the military and it gives the Penatgon leadership, supported by the White House and the Republicans in Congress who have all expressed outrage at it in recent years, the rationale for sweeping action that’s over the top.
Sarah who?
I dare say the same is happening to our unionized Law Enforcement Officers. Within 5 years all brass will be gay, the tyranny of the minority.
They need people who will fire on thier own
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