Posted on 06/21/2013 8:39:04 AM PDT by haffast
We don't know how, but we missed a major scandal brewing in the Navy for decades. It's important, so even if we're a little late to the story we still wanted to point it out: Cap'n Crunch is an impostor.
The Cap'n , who noticed the uniform he wears on cereal boxes had the stripes of a commander, not a captain. That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.
As the story spread, the Navy confirmed what you might be fearing: Cap'n Crunch is a fraud, tricking innocent children since his introduction in 1963.
The Navy (paywall):
" 'You are correct that Cap'n Crunch appears to be wearing the rank of a U.S. Navy commander,' Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Flaherty, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman, tells Foreign Policy. 'Oddly, our personnel records do not show a "Cap'n Crunch" who currently serves or has served in the Navy.' "
What's more: We put our investigative reporter hat on and went digging. We pulled up and they showed that on some occasions he sported one stripe, on others two.
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(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Clearly an attempt by the USN to create a distraction through the weekend news cycle from the renewed interest in whether one of their Aegis ships popped off a missile that shot down TWA 800 ...
Pinging the poseur....
Clearly an attempt by the USN to create a distraction through the weekend news cycle from the renewed interest in whether one of their Aegis ships popped off a missile that shot down TWA 800 ...
Another childhood icon sullied. What’s this world coming to?
It’s worse than that. When he was with the Red Sox I saw him “fly” horizontally about 15 feet to catch a line drive. Coco Crisp is really Batman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3br1q5wIQ
Next their going to be telling me Count Chocula isn’t real.
My question is... what scandal prevented Cap’n Crunch and Captain Kangaroo from being promoted?
And, dammit... what rank is Popeye?
In addition he only has four fingers on each hand.
“That is: A captain has four stripes on his sleeve, while a commander has three.”
Yeah but the rest of his uniform looks legit.
Obama will promote him to Rear Admiral .
1. Cartoon character
2. Not a USN uniform
3. Captain is both formal and positional. An Ensign in charge of a ship is the captain, although the Captain on the dock is a Captain, but not the captain.
4. NPR must not have gotten any Lefty faxes today, so they had to research the cereal box.
Is that Coco Crisp LOL
He’s the Captain of his ship.
So I guess the big C on his hat only stands for Crunch.
That explains why it is not CC
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