Posted on 01/29/2016 4:18:59 AM PST by Leaning Right
Most of 'them' are bought cheaply. It really is astonishing.
Supposedly.
Thanks for that as I was wondering but still - it’s a pretty strange name for a Cambodian. Should have looked first. This is from 2010:
“”As a young Cambodian boy born and living in the rice fields outside of the capital Phnom Penh in the late 1960’s / early 1970’s, Misiewicz whose birth name was Vannak Khem — wasn’t aware of the political tension building up around him. When his country plunged into turmoil, his family reluctantly gave him up for adoption to a young American woman who worked at the U.S. Embassy, allowing him to escape before the Khmer Rouge regime took over the country, eventually causing millions of deaths in what is known as the “Killing Fields.”
“I know it’s going to be very emotional,” said Misiewicz. “I was the lucky one in the family.”
Raised by his adoptive mother, Misiewicz enlisted in the Navy after graduating from high school in Lanark, Illinois. He was selected for the Navy’s Broadened Opportunity for Officer Selection and Training (BOOST) program, and attended the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received his commission in 1992. His service as a Navy Surface Warfare Officer ultimately brought him to command the guided missile destroyer USS Mustin, forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.
The 1975 Senate hearings on contractor fraud with active duty military men and DPSC members taking bribes ultimately cost the USAF its Veterinary service. The USAF Veterinary service caught the Army Class Three inspectors taking massive amounts of bribes at origin. The debacle included at least 70 Army members and a dozen DPSC employees at Philadelphia. I had to testify to the FBI on the junk that these Army inspectors passed. Some Army members had better PR and lobby members and convinced Jimmy Carter that the USAF didn’t need the veterinary service even though it took three Army techs to do the job of one USAF member. It was my eye opening experience on how politics and logic are at odds.
While it seems that the USAF has had it’s machinations, I have seen individuals in the US Navy use political correctness, investigatory malfeasance, and personal annihilation to advance their own promotional progress...and I could name names that you would know....
It sux but it is what it is...
Until we have people of HONOR who serve in upper levels, we will get gun decking up the whazoo.....
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