Posted on 05/20/2023 10:29:10 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Drag performances took place on board the USS Ronald Reagan under the command of a Navy captain whose promotion to rear admiral is currently being blocked by Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
Capt. Michael Donnelly served as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan from April 2016 to September 2018. During that time period, Yeoman 2rd Class Joshua Kelley was performing as a drag queen at Morale, Welfare, and Recreation department-sanctioned events on the carrier under the drag name “Harpy Daniels.”
As commander of the USS Ronald Reagan, Donnelly would have been aware of, and responsible for, that activity, according to William Thibeau, director of The American Military Project at The Claremont Institute.
Donnelly declined to comment for this article through the U.S. Navy.
“Every military officer takes command of units large and small with the understanding they are responsible for everything that does and does not happen under their command,” Thibeau explained. “It’s the basic truth of military leadership, whether you command an infantry company or an aircraft carrier.”
“The USS Ronald Reagan drag shows of 2017 and 2018 were not random acts of entertainment for sailors, but were sanctioned Navy programs under the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) department of the ship,” he noted. “As commander of the ship, Captain Donnelly would have been ultimately responsible for this program.”
Thibeau also noted that large media outlets, such as NBC and the Military Times, had covered the drag shows during Donnelly’s tour—significant press attention that “would have been a standard reporting requirement directly to Captain Donnelly at the time.”
“My biggest performances here are the lip-sync competitions we hold to build up morale,” Kelley said in a August 2018 interview with NBC News.
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Stay Strong and straight, Senator!
This dipwit classifies perversion as morale? Drum his ass out of the Navy.
Block the Navy Captain and send him to join the Village People where he can sing about when he was “in the Navy”.
Put him I. The BRIG!
Drag show = black face
That should nip that chit in the bud. .
Time to destroy democrat military officers.
Men have been dressing in drag for dance shows in Navy ships for a long, long time. They’ve been making fun of that in movies since the 40’s.
There is a huge difference between the fun we used to have with costumes and the world of sexual perversion being lived and promoted today.
Here is the old world of women’s clothes on ships.
Here is my dad’s warship in 1939, the 90-second version.
https://www.google.com/search?q=USS+marblehead+posieden+ceremony&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS1057US1057&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:591172ed,vid:4yD_7HN6OhA
Seven-minute version of the 1939 ceremony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mvBzRVzEI
Coach Tuberville has been a much better Senator than I expected.
Yeah right....the morale of our enemies........
Better than Sessions would have been
Sure, sure, and those who did this did it week after week. 🙄
I’m a little curious about these incidents. Sailors dressing up as women for either forecastle follies or shellback ceremonies has not been uncommon in years past. After tailhook, those kind of ribald revelries were frowned upon and could lead to similar circumstances, e.g. the Admiral Arthur - Pat Schroeder showdown.
If there were no women on these ships, would this be different -
I guess there’s a difference.
Recall the film, “South Pacific”...
There is you tube out there from pre ww2. The one from USS Indianapolis was something. (from 1939. Those pollywogs really got initiated.
Along with anyone else and everyone else like him!
good job tommy
FDR witnessed ceremony in 1936 on USS Indianapolis. Wonder how many of those same guys were on board in 1945.
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