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Navy fires commander of USS Constitution
The Boston Globe ^ | May 11, 2007 | By Maria Cramer

Posted on 05/11/2007 10:08:04 AM PDT by BronzePencil

The commander of the famed USS Constitution was fired from his post yesterday, two months before his two-year term expired, because the Navy lost confidence in his ability to command the 210-year-old ship, officials said.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: constitution; history; ironsides; navy
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OLD IRONSIDES By Oliver Wendell Holmes September 16, 1830

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!

Oh, better that her shattered bulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!

1 posted on 05/11/2007 10:08:07 AM PDT by BronzePencil
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To: BronzePencil

What? What did he do?

Fertheluvva... how do ya screw up a cake job like that one?


2 posted on 05/11/2007 10:09:38 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: BronzePencil
Graves, who lives in Marblehead, was relieved from the post because the department had lost "trust and confidence" in him.

"This was due to an administrative matter," said Commander Jeff Davis , a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon. "We're not able to discuss the details of that. This is not something that is accompanying a disciplinary action. This was based solely upon the senior officers' assessment of his ability to command effectively."

3 posted on 05/11/2007 10:13:06 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Ramius
... how do ya screw up a cake job like that one?

Did he keep pet termites? You're right, this does make one wonder what is going on here ...

4 posted on 05/11/2007 10:13:52 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: BronzePencil

When do the Democrats in the House and Senate start hearings...Obviously he was fired for political reasons....


5 posted on 05/11/2007 10:15:20 AM PDT by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)
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To: BronzePencil

Methinks perhaps he had one of the lasses in the galley look to see how his mainsail stood!


6 posted on 05/11/2007 10:19:56 AM PDT by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: BronzePencil
Too much grog.
7 posted on 05/11/2007 10:21:54 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Pelosi - C an't U nderstand N ormal T hinking)
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To: Ramius
Fertheluvva... how do ya screw up a cake job like that one?

Sex or money.

8 posted on 05/11/2007 10:23:43 AM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
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To: BronzePencil

I would love to know how one screws up commanding a ship that only moves once a year, and even then, just barely. You have to be pretty bad to do that, I would think.


9 posted on 05/11/2007 10:24:13 AM PDT by USMCWife6869 (Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
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To: Ramius

Got lost????


10 posted on 05/11/2007 10:24:45 AM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: Ramius

Lit his cigars with a blow torch?


11 posted on 05/11/2007 10:25:16 AM PDT by Frank Sheed (Dead Ráibéad.... Lifelong Irish Papist!)
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To: BronzePencil

Must have been frigging in the rigging.


12 posted on 05/11/2007 10:26:31 AM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: BronzePencil

We collected pennies to save Old Ironsides. Can’t imagine a Captain forgetting to order more white paint.


13 posted on 05/11/2007 10:27:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Ramius
Fertheluvva... how do ya screw up a cake job like that one?

Dippin' the wick...?

tipplin'...?

corruption....?

or, perhaps it was his seamanship -- got caught in irons in the middle of Massachusetts Bay trying to wear ship in a cutter?

14 posted on 05/11/2007 10:29:34 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: paulcissa

Maybe he was looking for strawberries.


15 posted on 05/11/2007 10:29:49 AM PDT by Tolkien (There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: paulcissa

Arrr, that rigging was designed by an ancestor and we’ll not be tellin’ where the 7th Oil Skin is.


16 posted on 05/11/2007 10:31:23 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: BronzePencil

Make him walk the plank...

Draw and quarter him...

Keel haul him...

Hang him from the yard arm...


17 posted on 05/11/2007 10:31:47 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: BronzePencil

Must have failed to get underway...


18 posted on 05/11/2007 10:31:50 AM PDT by TADSLOS (W.T. Sherman had it right.)
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To: SES1066

Probably failed to field strip his cigarettes.


19 posted on 05/11/2007 10:32:59 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SES1066

LOL - I see that you have owned a wooden boat...


20 posted on 05/11/2007 10:33:28 AM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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