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Navy replaces admiral leading Mideast strike group
CenturyLink.net ^ | October 27, 2012 | Robert Burns, AP

Posted on 10/27/2012 10:59:10 AM PDT by QT3.14

The Navy said Saturday it is replacing the admiral in command of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, pending the outcome of an internal investigation into undisclosed allegations of inappropriate judgment.

Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette is being sent back to the USS John C. Stennis' home port at Bremerton, Wash., in what the Navy called a temporary reassignment. The Navy said he is not formally relieved of his command of the Stennis strike group but will be replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M. Shoemaker, who will assume command until the investigation is completed.

It is highly unusual for the Navy to replace a carrier strike group commander during its deployment.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: admiral; benghazi; gaoutte; military; navy
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Psalm 144

Remember...the “O” said “The buck stops with YOU”....(NOT “here”)


21 posted on 10/27/2012 11:24:35 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: rdax
"(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,”

How much data does it take to put aircraft over the target area? The deliveries these CIA operatives would have wanted could have been achieved with little or no risk to the pilots.

22 posted on 10/27/2012 11:24:38 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: combat_boots; All
This means that 0bama DID give the order to stand down.
..was there any doubt?...every real officer shall have to look over ...
their shoulders now for pRes__ent O'Bozo 's "Political Officer"
d@mn Careerist officer..hang 'em from the mast.

23 posted on 10/27/2012 11:24:39 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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To: Travis McGee

Wow, he put the official rubber stamp on the “study” to determine whether gays should serve in the military, then when the last head of africom was relieved they sent him to be his replacement, and now he’s relieved. Shows how loyalty only goes one way.


24 posted on 10/27/2012 11:26:37 AM PDT by GodfearingTexan
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To: Never on my watch
"I understand that it is tough," Panetta said. "We are asking an awful lot of each of you, but frankly you are the best I have and when the world calls we have to respond."

Except, of course, when Americans in Benghazi call for fire support.

25 posted on 10/27/2012 11:30:30 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: QT3.14

Does zero really think that high ranking, deployed (as opposed to Pentagon brass like powell) officers are going to take the heat for zero’s and clinton’s mismanagement???


26 posted on 10/27/2012 11:31:23 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: QT3.14

“Night Of The Long Knives?” Euphemistically speaking that is.


27 posted on 10/27/2012 11:31:33 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("It's The Natural Born Citizenship, Stupid!")
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To: rdax

General Ham is a good ma. I have no problem believing this story.


28 posted on 10/27/2012 11:31:50 AM PDT by Gamecock
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To: QT3.14

http://www.stripes.com/news/obama-to-nominate-army-gen-rodriguez-to-lead-africom-1.193564

The Zero is on a purgapalooza ala Joseph Stalin?


29 posted on 10/27/2012 11:32:19 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: skinkinthegrass

But it also means 0bama was cool about Stevens being dead.

What did Stevens know?


30 posted on 10/27/2012 11:32:49 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: rdax

Wow - I totally believe that! Lets hope he doesn’t get invited to a meeting @ Ft. Marcy Park


31 posted on 10/27/2012 11:34:05 AM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: QT3.14
It could be the White House perceives a flag-rank level mutiny happening among U.S. forces deployed in the Middle East. Carter Ham and Shoemaker may just be part of it. It might amount to official complaints filed by these guys over Benghazi. Or refusing to sign on to the White House version of Sept. 11-12. The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps is also being replaced. Where was he on Sept. 11?
32 posted on 10/27/2012 11:38:33 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: combat_boots

I’ve been warning about the coming military purge a-la Stalin 1933 for some time now.

So far we have seen many field grade officers driven out, prematurely retired, or jailed for lack of fidelity to the Muslim in charge.

Gen. Ham was probably looking down the barrel of a 9mm knowing what would happen if he tried to resist - the bloodletting phase of the PURGE would have begun.

It has come so close during this incident that I can’t imagine that the mass murdering stage won’t soon begin.

I wonder how many officers might have actually shot each other over the Bengazi debacle, and we will never know about it?

I suspect that you are about to see targeted assassinations of Officers whose loyalty to Obungo is questioned. They will make it look like “accidents” or “hostile fire” at first; expect a lot of mysterious plane crashes with field grade officers on board, just like the plane carrying all of those absentee ballots for the troops.

If significant units turn on their PC hack officers and mutiny, as some apparently came all too close to doing this time, hell will lay a big fat juicy egg and the Juma will dance and yodel “Allah Achubaw” as the US military destroys itself all around them.

Either way, Obama is assuring himself that a coup will not happen, and the American sheeple will remain at his and his mercenary thug DHS brownshirt’s mercy as they deploy to enforce martial law...
And don’t count on much of that.


33 posted on 10/27/2012 11:40:02 AM PDT by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: glorgau
"I understand that it is tough," Panetta said. "We are asking an awful lot of each of you, but frankly you are the best I have and when the world calls we have to respond."

...but frankly you are the best I have ...

That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.

34 posted on 10/27/2012 11:41:47 AM PDT by Never on my watch (I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Should have read Gaouette instead of Shoemaker in above post.


35 posted on 10/27/2012 11:42:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: QT3.14

So we are blaming the military for Benghazi? This just gets worse and worse. God help us all.


36 posted on 10/27/2012 11:47:08 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: combat_boots
But it also means 0bama was cool about Stevens being dead.
What did Stevens know?
enough to get him killed / murdered...now, if he were a Muslim...
"Malaise / Stand-Down" O'Bozo, may have acknowledged his (Stevens')
sacrifice..since he wasn't; he was treated like Camel dung.

37 posted on 10/27/2012 11:47:23 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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To: rfp1234
Perhaps a sign that honorable military men are disagreeing with their ‘political officers’ and are getting sacked for that.

More likely a sign that the admiral was messing around with a female subordinate.

38 posted on 10/27/2012 11:48:28 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: George Varnum; Cicero

I do know that at least 50% of our nuclear submarine commanders have slowly been replaced over the last 4 years by those who are loyal to 0bama.


39 posted on 10/27/2012 11:48:42 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: GreyFriar
No mention if it is in the Med or somewhere near the Persian Gulf, which is also the Middle East

I believe the Stennis is in the Arabian Sea. At the time of the Benghazi event, there were no carriers in the Mediterranean.

40 posted on 10/27/2012 11:51:47 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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