Posted on 04/28/2019 8:09:53 PM PDT by Innovative
Correction...
I thought it said Vice Admiral.
My goof.
“I’m looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.”
There was a beginning of that stuff ‘way back when I was in, USAF 1970-74.
If you’ve followed events over the last decade you will recall that there has been one Navy screw-up after another. It truly is the gang that can’t shoot straight. I personally believe it started with the cheating scandal at Annapolis whose miscreants for the most part received a slap on the wrist.
Ring’s comments in a recent NYT hit piece meant to drum up sympathy for terrorists:
“Unless America’s policy changes, at some point we’ll be doing some sort of end of life care here,” the commander of the detention center, Rear Adm. John C. Ring, said during a discussion with reporters that highlighted the kinds of questions the prison is asking Pentagon policymakers to decide.
“A lot of my guys are prediabetic,” Admiral Ring said. “Am I going to need dialysis down here? I don’t know. Someone’s got to tell me that. Are we going to do complex cancer care down here? I don’t know. Someone’s got to tell me that.”
I’m sure Trump fired his ass as well he should have.
“I’m looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.”
Booze is cheap at GITMO. REFTRA makes you thirsty.
Back in the seventies I was assigned to the Shore Patrol (SP) at GITMO. During the orientation day for all SP “voluntolds” we boarded an old dilapidated Navy school bus and went around to the various places that we would or could we be posted during our Duty days as SP. When we got to the Enlisted Club we filed out and into the club and the first thing that hit me was that it was dark and dank and it smelled like a mixture of stale beer, cigarette butts, vomit, (CS) tear gas and rank moldy swabs.
The E-club was closed regularly when ships crews started in on each other... usually around 2200 hours or so, but sometimes earlier. The club opened at 1600.
Sailors...
Interesting too that Congress didn’t go along with funding their “hospice” center at $69M, citing more urgent defense infrastructure requirements elsewhere (there is no such thing as Congresscritter-Gitmo), and now the price according to this guy has been jacked to $88M.
If you know history, Major General Gavin was in command of the 82nd Airborne Division in WWII (15,000 troops) and did a great job. I say, fire all Flag Officers and let Colonels and Sergeants run the military.
Not sure that’s applicable with President Trump being Commander-in-Chief...
There are thousands of military and civilian employees at Guantanamo Naval Base that have little or nothing to do with the detention camp.
I have a source at Gitmo, quite plugged in. An investigation of Ring has been ongoing for more than 2 years involving an affair his wife was having with another serviceman (don’t know the rank or branch) who was found dead in the bay.
I’m surprised this took this long.
At least he had the balls to order the Code Red.
IIRC, a rear admiral is a one-star.
What will be happening on May 10 or 11?
Read the wording very carefully.
The speculation is that Gitmo might have new visitors around that time.
Political Correctness dominates Air Force
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3745602/posts
The first openly gay general at the Air Force Academy has been removed as commandant of cadets, but leaders there were mum Monday on the exact cause of the apparent firing.
Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin, who led military training at the academy since 2017, was removed from her role as commandant amid an investigation, the school confirmed Monday.
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Goodwin, a former B-2 bomber pilot who moved to the school with her wife and children, was praised by some for a tough new set of discipline polices that made cadets tow the line. She also faced criticism for her stormy relationship with subordinates and colleagues, a few of whom referred her with the imperial nickname “duchess,” the general’s callsign from flying days. Several academy officers who requested anonymity because they were not authorized by the academy to speak about the case said Goodwin was a caustic leader who treated those under her roughly and was easily riled.
“She’s a 4.5 star wacko,” one former academy officer said of Goodwin, with whom he served alongside.
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