Posted on 03/05/2010 8:47:15 AM PST by cajuncow
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- A Navy captain was demoted because she berated and assaulted her crew, not because she led her guided missile cruiser on a drag-race with another U.S. warship in the Pacific, an investigation shows.
Capt. Holly Graf was relieved of her command of the cruiser USS Cowpens after an investigation substantiated crew allegations that she was abusive and used her position for personal gain, naval officials said Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.
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IMO If you have to resort to those antics you are a wimp....
Saw a picture of 'the Race'. McCain was leading.
@ss-chewings and the like are the province of the petty officer or sergeant. Commissioned officers have to have a 'command presence' -- especially a CO. Don't know how she achieve not one, but 2 sea commands with this reputation.
... a matter of days after the surrender, IIRC.
My wife (an officer in the Navy for 22 years) said the same thing. She read the accounts and laughed saying that she experienced worse from SFOs, especially women. She said that the male superiors have been for more active in helping her get better ratings on her reviews that the females because she felt they recognized what was best for the Navy, not just themselves.
Sad but true.
sorry, SFO should be SWO..
I served aboard a Destroyer. My captain raced other ships a couple of times. They were carrying passed out men from the boiler room because it became so hot down there.
The captain ordered more bug juice for them. (we won the race)
well okie dokie then but for a photo op? I thought it was customary to wear them all for a shoot.
I wish. The only weeding out is done by those 03’s who no longer wish to remain on active duty.
okay--i disagree...
100% of fully qualified get promoted, pretty easy to follow, but that does not mean 100% of those up from promotion get promoted.
O-4, 80% of best qualified are promoted, but that doesn’t mean out of, say, 100 eligible for promotion, they are all rated “best qualified,” and 80 would be promoted. It says that of those rated “best qualified” (say, 50% of the total), 80% of those get promoted.
Not easy to move up, and making the O-4 cut is hard and it gets harder as they go along. Unless, of course, some promotion board takes into consideration a few other factors, like sex and race and things like that, and if you possess those “attributes,” you are viewed more favorably for promotion.
I recall back in the early 90’s, one of my Pentagon car-pool buddies in the Army told me that at the cut-off line, if the bottom ranked guy for promotion was a White guy, the board had instructions to look further down the list for the next minority and female for a second look, and that the minority or female would more than likely get the promotion bump. Not so for the White male just below the cut-off. . . no second look for him.
Yeah, she wasn’t whimpy, she was b$tchy.
;-)
This is true. I stand corrected. (But you've got to admit, she looks kind of manly.)
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