Never fear, the listener is here
Posted on 06/11/2009 4:54:11 PM PDT by blueyon
From today's you couldn't make it up if you tried file.......Obama's protectors have ordered graduating Midshipmen....and I suppose Commissioned Officers through Flag rank...to leave their swords at home. Full Dress White includes "wear sword". More to the point...those badges of office have been earned in a manner Obongo and his minions just wouldn't begin to understand. Important traditions that inspire are kind of lost on the red banner crowd, apparently.
Further, ceremonial swords never seemed to bother the Secret Service for any previous President. And before World War II, the swords were not particularly "ceremonial", I've seen some of those blades, boarding actions did occur on the China Station pre-war against river pirates, warlords, etc. Those swords were worn not just to graduation, but to Inaugurations, in the receiving line at the White House afterward, to the Inaugural Ball. Somehow nobody gave it a second thought. Somehow even Presidents in the past didn't presume to specify items of uniform.
But of course, what worked for Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, F.D.R., the Bushes, T.R., any other rational non-cult leader.....doesn't work for this former state senator anointed by the Chicago machine.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatheringofeagles.org ...
ZERO, YOU ARROGANT, STUPID POS!!!!
It is still ridiculous to think any of those fine servicemen would go rabid dog but when you know you're destroying a nation from within you're going to be nervous.
Never fear, the listener is here
If it isn’t true, the Moderator should cancel this thread.
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About the full dress code, please follow link and click on #3
http://nrotc.osu.edu/regs/appdxd.htm#3
mentions “PRESCRIBABLE ITEMS: Sword (LCDR and above)”
amongst other items.
So I stand by that they are worn!
Plus this:
http://moelane.com/2009/05/22/usna-ceremonial-swords-on-the-prohibited-list-since-after-911/
Haven’t verified it personally however...
dear leader is afraid ping
2007: no swords.
The Viet Nam years were a difficult time to attend a service academy. Thank your husband for me for staying the course. He must be an impressive man.
from the Gathering of Eagles website
http://www.gatheringofeagles.org/view720247m2851579998.html
“UPDATE on Naval Academy Graduation....
Published: 06/11/2009 Posted On: June 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM By: Kathy
A recent report claiming that graduating midshipmen were told not to wear their ceremonial swords has made the rounds on the internet.
SOF has contacted the Naval Acadaney’s Public Affairs Office, which denied the report.
UPDATE:
The Naval Academy’s press office provided additional comments, reprinted below:
Unfortunately, this article is extremely misleading. Midshipmen are not required to have swords as part of their normal uniform issue unless they are Brigade Officers, and then they are issued temporary swords for parades and other ceremonial events.
Officers may add the sword and wear it at ceremonial events such as change of commands, weddings, etc. as designated. They are not, nor have they ever been worn by Midshipmen at graduation.
Many parents give swords to graduates to be worn with their officer uniform after commissioning, but they along with many other items are routinely banned from being carried into the graduation ceremony for obvious security reasons.
I sincerely hope that this explains the issue.
As far as the regulations that you cite, swords are prescribed for Naval officers LCDR and above: graduating Midshipmen are Ensigns, and therefore, by these regulations, are not required to wear swords.
In point of fact, many, if not all graduatinmg Midshipmen going Navy and all going Marines (A USMC uniform requirement) are given swords as a graduation gift by their families.
For the most part, the major use of swords for these young Naval officers is in the military weddings of their classmates; the young Marine officers do have official ceremonial requirements in which they also use their swords.
I hope this clears things up.
P.S. it will be interesting to see what happens at West Point when Obama goes there for the Class of 2010 - there, the cadets routinely wear their swords to the graduation ceremony, and did so when Pres. Bush attended the graduation in 2006.
Thank you. He is, at 6’5” and 300 lbs. My daughter’s boyfriends were really scared of him. The first thing you saw when you entered the house was his sword in a Marine Corps holder. It was really funny to watch them!
This is cause for outrage! In military culture there is no greater insult than being ordered to disarm.
Yep. I recall reading that Rommel raised hell when he was ordered to parade his man past the Fuhrer with unloaded weapons. Threatened to resign IIRC.
You have to understand Obonga has lived a sheltered and privileged life. As a result he scares easily.
0bama must be fearful that the newly commissioned officers would take their oath seriously to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
And 0bama qualifies on both counts.
President Bush did tell Obama when he became president that he will have “the time of your life.”
A rather odd phrase I thought at the time.
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