Posted on 02/23/2021 9:30:05 PM PST by Kartographer
Some Navy traditions are formal, polished bright with age, such as the two lines of saluting senior officers on the USS Gerald R. Ford who bid farewell to Capt. J.J. Cummings after he handed over command last week.
Some are less obvious, but still there — like the way Rear Adm. John Meier, the Ford’s first captain, kept an eye on his former command and spoke at Cummings’ change of command ceremony, or the way retired Capt. Thurraya Kent checked on her former Norfolk-based command of specialist staff officers after she was posted to the Pentagon a few years back.
Her watch led her to role in a smaller, more informal Navy tradition.
What Kent found, looking back, was a younger officer she thought exemplified everything a Navy officer should be.
And so, when Kent retired in 2019, she passed a symbolic item on to Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg — a sword that’s been passed from retiring officer to younger, rising officer since 1941, when an engineering specialist named Ed Hahn started his sword on its journey.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Dear God in Heaven, help my Navy, I beg.
Baron Bodissey wrote, “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” (Political Correctness—The Revenge of Marxism, Gates of Vienna)
I hope I may never see the humiliating evil of a woman wearing a Naval officer’s sword.
Why is it evil that a woman would wear the sword of an officer, especially if earned?
If you don’t already know, it probably cannot be explained to you.
That's a cop-out, and unworthy of Free Republic.
How would you explain it to someone who had slightly less understanding than yourself?
Regards,
“Whether or not the distortion is apparent, however, the situation it creates is most demoralizing for those who see through it because making the distortions of a pseudo-reality apparent to those who do not already see them is always exceptionally tedious and will be vigorously resisted not only by adherents but by useful idiots.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3920426/posts
Another sworded affair.
This is the theme of the book “Live Not by Lies,” by Rod Dreher. Read it if you haven’t already.
“In this remarkably prescient book, Dreher sets Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s timeless appeal to ‘live not by lies’ as the cornerstone of his own bold warning.”
Looks interesting. I’ll try to pick it up. I have boundless admiration for Solzhenitsyn. I remember being nauseated when the left started slamming him.
The article I linked to is also very worthwhile.
Because.
Joan of Arc should’ve stayed in the kitchen.
Then why even bother posting here at Free Republic?! Why bother trying to share insights and spread information here? Why bother engaging with fellow conservatives - who might nonetheless have a very different "life experience" and hence not be overly familiar with, e.g., "navy traditions?"
After all, it's "so exceptionally tedious?"
In the main, we here at Free Republic are neither "adherents of pseudo-reality" nor "useful idiots."
I would agree that it would probably be pointless, attempting to argue with / convince either dyed-in-the-wool leftists, the "Woke," or utterly naïve "normies" - but the members of Free Republic are deserving of a little more consideration.
Regards,
“Why bother trying to share insights and spread information here?”
More often I’m trying to learn from the other posters.
“the members of Free Republic are deserving of a little more consideration.”
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, but I’m convinced that there are a lot of false-flag trolls here.
I have to confess, when I read the question, my heart sank. I just have no enthusiasm for the exchange I foresaw.
I only post here, and that has been the case for a long time. As far as is possible, I do not attempt to communicate with leftwads. And here, in the sanctuary, a question that betrays a belief in at least one leftwad dogma.
I just didn’t want to do it.
Well, it’s late, so I think I’ll turn in. Couldn’t sleep a wink last night. Hope tonight will be better.
I was a military cook. I know about traditions. When I left the service to pursue my interests I too had a ceremony. I passed my spatula to my replacement.
I thought the traditions were: “Rum, sodomy and the lash”?
rivalry regards,
retired Army guy ;)
Spare me the verbose dramatics. The question reveals a fundamental and complete absence of understanding of the US Navy history, bravery and life. The question reveals a worldview, not a true question. It would be like someone asking why homo scoutmasters, or men in the women’s restroom is such a bad thing.
A row of “Naval Officers” of all sexes, all genders, with their preferred pronouns attached instead of their rank, all with their fingernails painted different colors (as per specific regulation)...
And they can’t keep their ships from colliding or running aground, catching fire at a dock during an overhaul, putting out the fire, or even maintain the appearance and seaworthiness of their vessels.
None of that is a joke. That is the US Navy today.
dsc: More often I’m trying to learn from the other posters.
Fine! I, too, am trying to learn. But when I do make a statement of opinion - if someone asks for explication, I will feel obligated to help them out.
alexander_busek: “the members of Free Republic are deserving of a little more consideration.”
dsc: You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, but I’m convinced that there are a lot of false-flag trolls here.
I understand. I, too, have (in recent months) occasionally had that feeling. But if things have gotten so bad that you can't answer a simple (not especially provocative!) question, then maybe one ought to consider leaving.
dsc: I have to confess, when I read the question, my heart sank. I just have no enthusiasm for the exchange I foresaw.
I am a civilian, with no military experience. Women have served honorably in the U.S. military. Am I to take it that you completely reject the idea of women in the military?
dsc: And here, in the sanctuary, a question that betrays a belief in at least one leftwad dogma.
You are reading too much into a simple question.
dsc: Well, it’s late, so I think I’ll turn in. Couldn’t sleep a wink last night. Hope tonight will be better.
Sleep tight!
Regards,
Dramatics?! It was a simple question. Perhaps you thought that I was merely feigning naivete - but it was a sincere question.
The question reveals a fundamental and complete absence of understanding of the US Navy history, bravery and life.
Guilty as charged! That's why I asked the question.
The question reveals a worldview, not a true question. It would be like someone asking why homo scoutmasters, or men in the women’s restroom is such a bad thing.
Does not reveal a worldview. Women have served honorably in the U.S. armed forces - do you dispute that?
Regards,
Try.
Only tradition I remember as an enlisted person was to “pin the crow” on your arm when you made petty officer 3rd class. Some joker would always take the opportunity to knock you into the next room.
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