[shibumi]

"Mr. Cosby, a Navy veteran...

I wonder what that has to do with anything."

It just points out that he's speaking from the same point of moral and experiential authority as other great military leaders with Naval background ..... like for instance Jimmy "Let's Not Piss Off the Ayatollah" Carter.

[Verginius Rufus]

Or Sen. John F. Kerry, a Navy veteran, who was sent into Cambodia by President-elect Nixon in December 1968.