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To: My hearts in London - Everett
"Good thing they weren’t in the Navy 40 or 50 years ago."

I was a naval officer in a family of naval officers going back since before the last century. Officers don't put their hands on enlisted men - ever. When you're the Captain, on the bridge, you don't berate subordinates in front of their own subordinates. When you do, you're undermining your own authority.

These things don't look or read like much to an untrained observer, but to me as a retired naval officer, she reads like very bad news. I say, good riddance.

39 posted on 03/05/2010 9:10:19 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Excellent post.


51 posted on 03/05/2010 9:20:13 AM PST by Hulka
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To: OldDeckHand

I’ve run across a few ships company Lieutenant JGs that showed this kind of imbecilic behavior, one in particular comes to mind that still haunts my dreams 25 years later, but never a Senior Officer. The department heads and Senior Officers were always personable people. In fact our Captain the famed, Rear Admiral James Flatley, we nicknamed Friendly Flatley.

Now some of the Navy pilots on the other hand were stretching the sanity envelope a bit, but they were generally good guys. They had to be, there lives depended on the squids working on their A/P


71 posted on 03/05/2010 9:48:06 AM PST by NavyCanDo (Palin 2012 Teleprompter Not Required)
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