In happier times before she flipped out.
Posted on 08/20/2010 10:09:54 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A Navy panel says the service should discharge former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who lost her NASA job over a bizarre airport attack on a romantic rival.
The panel made the recommendation Thursday after a daylong hearing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
The recommendation now goes to the Naval Personnel Command. A final decision will be made by the Secretary of the Navy.
The panel recommended downgrading Nowak from captain to commander and giving her a discharge of "other than honorable."
Nowak was sentenced to a year on probation last November after pleading guilty to third-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor battery.
Nowak confronted her romantic rival in the parking lot of Orlando International Airport in February 2007 after driving from Houston.
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That's putting it mildly.
Wonder why it took this long for the Navy to decide that this psycho should take it on down the road.
Filing this under “No Brainer”. Cross-indexed to “Fugly”
Do you want me to answer in one word or two? Female/Affirmative Action.
just wait a couple more years and she can retire. solve having to make a lot of tough decisions.
In happier times before she flipped out.
Driving from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers. She needs a Section 8.
Not to be confused with Section 8 housing.
Gee if this B*tch would have been enlisted she would have been discharged LONG ago. Another example of th US Navy’s double standard btwn “Officer” and “Enlisted”.
Yep, a guy would’ve had an Article 15 hearing 5 minutes after the arrest and would’ve been discharged OTH a couple months after that.
Congrats on being the only ex-astronaut who can’t show her face in her hometown and is probably barred from astronaut conventions.
Fortunately, she will now be available to appear on “Celebrity Boxing” with Tonya Harding.
she’s still on active duty???
OMG, has she boiled any bunnies lately?
"The Mile High Asylum"
Ah, Houston, we have a problem...
She needs to have her security clearance pulled, too. I wouldn’t trust this fruit bat with my grandmother’s apple pie recipe.
Mental Illness is obviously at play here. Having had serious mental illness affect my own family, I can assure you there is nothing funny about it. It is sad that a potential career has been destroyed by the stigma of what is almost certainly related to mental illness. Certainly she needs to be discharged, but if she is suffering a serious mental illness, as I suspect she is, then some level of compassion is appropriate at the same time. But then, I’m biased.
Rather than deal with the question of how often this might happen (and subject her to even more intense medical examinations) NASA decided to dump her. Now she's been processed by the courts and it's up to Navy Department to further deal with her and the proposal is to bust her in rank and kick her out.
They still haven't examined her to see if TIME IN SPACE has special risks to sanity.
I would imagine everyone sees the problem here ~ NASA doesn't want anyone anywhere to develop a belief that space has special terrors that have to be addressed before we make more multi-trillion dollar investments in "man in space" projects.
It's a profound conflict of interest.
We need some independent body study this woman, and other astronauts and cosmonauts, to determine conclusively if there's something special going on here.
No kidding. This chick should be in jail.
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Politely disagree...
Please consider...
The USN and NASA have made a gazillion dollar investment in her selection and training...
...An investment they might prefer to recover in some modest form, if practicable....
I am sure some time had to pass for the USN/NASA to make additional downline assessments of her mental/emotional/relational health...
Now the Personnel Board will give the verdict...
Just food for thought...
--Have a great day!
OK I’ll “re-consider” AND:
Gee if this B*tch would have been enlisted she would have been discharged LONG ago. Another example of th US Navy’s double standard btwn “Officer” and “Enlisted”.
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