Posted on 03/17/2009 2:23:36 PM PDT by PurpleMan
Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, was presented this week with the Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award. The award, granted by the Secretary of the Navy, is the highest form of public service recognition bestowed by the Department of the Navy for a non-employee.
(Excerpt) Read more at murtha.house.gov ...
I do. But they can't be posted here.
Looks like Winter disgraced his office by honoring Murtha as he was on the way out the door.
Secretary of the Navy Farewell Message to the Department, 13 March 2009
“As I relinquish my duties as Secretary of the Navy, I count myself blessed for having had the opportunity to serve as your secretary. I have held many interesting jobs but no period in my professional career can compare to the experiences I have had in this position.
Over the past three years, I have had the privilege of observing the daily commitment of our men and women who truly make our Naval service great. In challenging environments like Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Guantanamo, and across the Atlantic and Pacific, your service makes a difference every day. I have great confidence that your ongoing service will continue to do our Navy, Marine Corps, and Nation proud.
Every time I meet with Sailors and Marines, I come away impressed by the tremendous capability and flexibility of our warfighters to accomplish the mission, no matter what the challenge. You are the secret of our success, and observing you in action has given me great faith in the promise of your great generation. If our Nation is led by individuals of the talent, devotion, and integrity of our service members, we will not only survive, but prosper in the years to come.
I reflect on my tenure as your secretary and realize it has been an exceptionally unique period in my life, and likely to remain so. I am honored to have served you as your secretary. Thank you for your service to our Nation. May God bless our Navy, our marine corps, and the United States of America.”
Donald C. Winter
Secretary of the Navy
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/leadership/ldrDisplay.asp?m=325
I just don’t have any words.
don't be silly we all know the words every Marine/wife/child/boyfriend/girlfriend/son/daughter/Chaplain/mother /father/sister and brother knows the words.......
I start out with "what a huge steaming pile of horsesh........
ck out post 43
Such are the vicissitudes of political life. Sometimes you find yourself so close to excrement, you get some on your person.
But why would he do that for the likes of Murtha?
Shame on the Sec Nav. As an ex-sailor I fart in his
general direction.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
and you bet that there was a nice deposit in a numbered account in Switzerland
The real question is.........who is giving the Military orders to do this?
My occasionally suspicious minds eye replays the scene of Mister Murtha begging and hounding Marxist Obama's peeps for the award.
IIRC, there is some opinion alleging possible fraud re how Mister Murtha opbained his service decorations, anyway; and, Mister Murtha has not (again, IIRC) released his full service record.
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Marine. As you are more aware then I, due to your honorable service as a Marine. This clown is a damn whore. To think he would IF he had the slightest awareness of what our honorable Marines have done in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere over the years, under very hard conditions on many occasions to have allowed the JAG and the NCIS to railroad a few real honorable heros and imprison them for things that should not even remotely be considered crimes under the rules of engagement within a counter insurgency operation and SASO, is beyond despicable. It is a criminal offense.
horse crap,
this p.o.s. should be placed in public stocks and stoned.
The NEXT Secy of the Navy is an openly GAY man!! OMG! We are lost as a nation.
My head just exploded.
If I was smart enough to post a picture, I would. In the interim, here’s an appropriate link:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/gilsheadexplodes.gif
If I posted what I wanted to say about this situation, Jim Rob would have cancell my account and ban me.
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