Posted on 03/17/2010 11:32:55 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The commander of a U.S. Navy submarine has been relieved of duty after getting drunk with college officer-training students last week, according to Navy officials.
Cmdr. Jeff Cima led the Hawaii-based USS Chicago, a nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, until Monday, when Navy officials said they had lost confidence in his ability to command and found him guilty of actions unbecoming of an officer, according to Navy spokesman Cmdr. Danny Hernandez.
The action is essentially career-ending, Hernandez said. Cima has been assigned to administrative duty in Hawaii, he added.
Last week, Cima attended a Reserve Officers Training Corps event in the continental United States where he became drunk, breaking regulations for a naval officer, Hernandez said.
ROTC is a college-based officer training program for the U.S. military.
Navy officials would not say where or what the event was because that would reveal other people involved in the event, they said.
According to the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's Web site, the new commanding officer of the USS Chicago is Capt. James E. Horten.
Cima was commander of the Chicago for almost a year, according to Navy official
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Found guilty? In one week? Ah, no. He was relieved of duty pending the outcome of an Article 32 hearing. Reporters are idiots.
I was an NROTC product - I guess the rules have changed since my day.
Greasing the relative bearing......ping
Only tickle parties are allowed, fools!
Buh-bye.
Back in the day, this Captain would have been retained and assigned to a desk job.....at some far unknown Antarctica base station.
I was too, but I have a feeling as the events reveal themselves, this probably wasn't your run-of-the-mill pub crawl. He did something, I'm sure, to embarrass himself and the uniform in a very public way - a no-no for a ship's captain. Here's the money quote from the article...
"Navy officials would not say where or what the event was because that would reveal other people involved in the event, they said."
There's more cooking here than just someone throwing up on themselves.
Yep. Bubbleheads are wild and crazy folk, and he might have forgotten himself a bit.
Oh well.
So it would seem.
USS Chicago was featured prominently in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, captained by Daniel McCafferty, and accounting for several submarine and surface warship kills and launching cruise missiles against military airfields inside the Soviet Union.
I did not know that. It has been a while since I read that book.
wanna bet this has more to do with females being assigned to submarines.
How times have changed! Political Correctness strikes again!
I was in Mayport FL when Hurricane Donna was approaching. The pilots were home, as they flew their planes to NAS Jax before we arrived in port. Ship had to pull out to sea to prevent damage to ship and docking facilities. We had to go through the ‘Cane and waves bent railings along catwalks up onto the edges of the flight deck. ...Pilots’ quarters (forward below the flight deck) were part of our assigned areas to maintain, as we were V-2 Cats. The huge waves had flooded the pilots’ quarters and the guys found many cases of booze that were under water. ...Of course the booze was properly distributed among deserving people in our division!
Sorry to be so long, but memories happen.
In the Med, we had a 72 hour general quarters exercise where we were launching and recovering aircraft constantly, without being able to go to quarters, shower, eat in the chow hall, etc., and slept on steel decks when we could. A few days later, our Div. Cdr. (from Beeville TX) took all 120 of us from the ship to an isolated part of an island via many of the small “liberty” boats, along with plenty of food and a very sufficient supply of cases of beer. We spent about 8 hours there drinking, eating and playing baseball. I think everyone was well soused and sunburned by the time we returned to the ship.
The Division Chief was also Chief Master At Arms of the carrier. One night in Naples, when we were on Cinderalla liberty, a huge storm blew in and liberty boats could not launch. The Chief contacted the ship and then just took about 6 of us to a hotel and booked one room for all. Then he took us down to the bar and we drank the rest of the night away, before catching a couple of hours sleep in time to get back to the ship around noon the next day.
I was NROTC from U of Minnesota, and a submarine officer, seems like he was just having fun. However, midshipmen cruises/events are delicate subjects, admirals seem to take them almost as seriously as nuclear testing.
Captains drink with admirals, captains and XOs, not with the ROTC version of Midshipmen.
Back in the day, nobody had camera-phones, so COs didn’t get caught standing on the bar, shouting “Submarines once! Submarines twice! . . .”
They are not the “ROTC version of Midshipmen”, they are Midshipmen.
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