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Navy Should End Career of Former Astronaut in Airport Attack, Panel Says
Fox News ^ | August 20, 2010 | staff

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronaut; diapers; dumbass; lisanowak; lovetriangle
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Nowak confronted her romantic rival in the parking lot of Orlando International Airport in February 2007 after driving from Houston.

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.

1 posted on 08/20/2010 10:09:56 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
This won't be the last time we hear of Ms. Nowack.
2 posted on 08/20/2010 10:11:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Filing this under “No Brainer”. Cross-indexed to “Fugly”


3 posted on 08/20/2010 10:11:41 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.

Do you want me to answer in one word or two? Female/Affirmative Action.

4 posted on 08/20/2010 10:12:47 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

just wait a couple more years and she can retire. solve having to make a lot of tough decisions.


5 posted on 08/20/2010 10:12:58 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

In happier times before she flipped out.

6 posted on 08/20/2010 10:13:53 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Driving from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers. She needs a Section 8.

Not to be confused with Section 8 housing.


7 posted on 08/20/2010 10:14:52 AM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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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”.


8 posted on 08/20/2010 10:19:07 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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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.


9 posted on 08/20/2010 10:19:13 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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10 posted on 08/20/2010 10:19:51 AM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Fortunately, she will now be available to appear on “Celebrity Boxing” with Tonya Harding.


11 posted on 08/20/2010 10:20:09 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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she’s still on active duty???

OMG, has she boiled any bunnies lately?


12 posted on 08/20/2010 10:22:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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Maybe she can get together with that steward who bolted down a shute and start a new reality TV series:

"The Mile High Asylum"

13 posted on 08/20/2010 10:22:38 AM PDT by AU72
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To: JRios1968

Ah, Houston, we have a problem...


14 posted on 08/20/2010 10:22:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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She needs to have her security clearance pulled, too. I wouldn’t trust this fruit bat with my grandmother’s apple pie recipe.


15 posted on 08/20/2010 10:27:50 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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.


16 posted on 08/20/2010 10:28:11 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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What we have here is a case where someone subjected to the most intense medical examinations available to mankind went into space, came back, and in a relatively short time, became quite mentally unstable.

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.

17 posted on 08/20/2010 10:32:37 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

No kidding. This chick should be in jail.


18 posted on 08/20/2010 10:32:57 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: US Navy Vet
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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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!

19 posted on 08/20/2010 10:35:16 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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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”.


20 posted on 08/20/2010 10:38:14 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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