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Fired Navy Captain created ‘toxic’ climate, grabbed and struck crew on duty
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Posted on 01/29/2024 9:27:10 PM PST by 11th_VA

Navy captain’s yelling and public “humiliation” of her officers and crew was so severe and frequent — once for the mistake of pointing out dolphins swimming nearby the ship’s bridge — that sailors were afraid to bring bad news to her attention. That “fear culture” aboard the USS Lake Erie, a scathing Navy investigation found, could have created “a higher risk of having a safety or operational mishap” and an “unsafe command environment where sailors do not … exercise sound judgment.”

As the commander of the Lake Erie, the report found, DeFant grabbed or struck her officers while they were on duty on the ship’s bridge, alienated the ship’s senior enlisted crew known as the Chief’s Mess, overreacted to minor transgressions like pointing out the dolphins, and in a briefing to an admiral failed to mention abysmal feedback she had received from the crew.

The admiral who eventually fired DeFant wondered if she had “deliberately whitewashed” the crew’s comments.

At least twice, investigators found, DeFant grabbed or hit an officer on the ship’s bridge, while they were on duty as the ship’s Conning Officer, the watch position directly responsible for the heading, speeding and steering of the ship, who is said to “have the conn.” …

The investigation of DeFant was first reported by KPBS in San Diego, which received the report via a Freedom of Information Act request.

DeFant was relieved of command of Lake Erie by Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, on October 12. Alexander, the commander of Carrier Strike Group Nine, endorsed the findings of the investigation on October 5.

DeFant was the captain of the Lake Erie for almost two years. The investigation was launched, the final report says, about 14 months into her command, after three anonymous complaints of “toxic command climate and sexual discrimination.” …

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To: 11th_VA

This dike is disaster protected and promoted for her sex and lesbianism. So trendy.

More, the Navy appears to have become the Girl Scouts Canoe Club with a few little boys sprinkled in to paddle and pull the boat out of the water.

“In late 2022, the crew of the Lake Erie filled out command climate surveys, a routine survey used in all military services to assess how troops feel about their commanders.”

Crews officially evaluate their commanders now?

WTF kind of life/death military operation can run in that environment?

History says NONE.

We do not elect our officers or sergeants for a reason.
We do not fraternize with each other for a reason.

Can that ship fight? A ship and commander are proven through drills and exercises....and ultimately war.

No freaking “how do you feel about” it therapy.

This is a direct result of women in the military....specifically in policy and command positions.
Women, and most non-European cultures are process/pride and not results operated.

There are exceptions and anecdotes....but they are just
that.

Since men went down to the sea in ships....women on them were considered bad luck......does anybody ever consider why?

Women among men destroy good order and discipline. Their behavior, their scents, their biology, their attitudes.

The collapse of our military is an unneeded proof of that.

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
1Tim 2:12

The OT is even more draconian.

You cannot change the laws of nature, or Nature’s God without price.


61 posted on 01/30/2024 6:58:03 AM PST by Lowell1775
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To: Albion Wilde
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62 posted on 01/30/2024 7:10:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: 11th_VA

I think someone stole the Captains strawberries and she was going to find out who did it.


63 posted on 01/30/2024 7:50:16 AM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (John 14:6 Hebrews 9:27)
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To: linMcHlp
I would prefer that all members of our military, would limit the number of ribbons, to 3, and the number of metal insignia (such as Surface Warfare, Wings, etc.) to 1.


64 posted on 01/30/2024 7:56:36 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: lee martell

I’ve had navy people tell me of people “Lost at sea,” Army people tell me of officers “fraged”.
Can’t remember any problems in the USAF. If there were we did not hear about them.

Sounds like SHE was trying to make a reputation as a Captain Bligh on his way home from Tahiti.


65 posted on 01/30/2024 8:02:12 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Albion Wilde

Gee, lookit all them ribbons.


66 posted on 01/30/2024 8:02:36 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: 11th_VA

“alienated the ship’s senior enlisted crew known as the Chief’s Mess,”

Not a good thing. You really don’t want to do that.


67 posted on 01/30/2024 8:08:32 AM PST by dljordan
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To: Albion Wilde

Good example; thanks.


68 posted on 01/30/2024 8:15:02 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Albion Wilde

69 posted on 01/30/2024 8:23:40 AM PST by shotgun
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To: 11th_VA

Inevitable after the Navy first allowed women to serve aboard warships - March 7, 1994.

This is what the WAVES were for. This is the results of feminism.

What a sad society American has devolved into.


70 posted on 01/30/2024 8:27:31 AM PST by CapandBall
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To: 11th_VA

Stories like this get circulated around the US and read or watched by millions and the 18 year old kids see them and parents see them and recruiting goes to hell.

Duuuhhhh!!!!!

There’s not 1 woman in a billion that should be in command of a warship and hundreds of men. They prove it regularly.


71 posted on 01/30/2024 8:33:25 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Albion Wilde
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72 posted on 01/30/2024 8:41:48 AM PST by CapandBall
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yeah, I think you make a good point there.


73 posted on 01/30/2024 9:06:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: CapandBall

Good one! These participation trophies have to stop.


74 posted on 01/30/2024 9:06:49 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: 11th_VA

Ain’t your Daddy’s Navy with all this WOKE horse shit.


75 posted on 01/30/2024 9:11:07 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: lurk

“How did she pass through so many job reviews and promotion portals without somebody noticing her lack of charm? Looks like the Navy was passing her through for diversity.”

Just take a look at those in the stands during the Army-Navy game. There are many instances of young highly qualified white men getting denied entry into the military academies because they are white. Preference is given to black, hispanic, females and probably trannies. We are lost, hard to think we can ever come back.


76 posted on 01/30/2024 9:15:30 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Albion Wilde

man face and man hands

that’s a man baby!!!


77 posted on 01/30/2024 12:32:45 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: 11th_VA

And THAT is why a future, more enlightened, Federation would not let Dr. Janice Lester anywhere near command of a Starship.


78 posted on 01/30/2024 2:00:49 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve always thought people like this are simply doing what they “think” a leader is, its their attempt at playing leadership, their portrayal of it. Perhaps the people over them in their childhood and schooling were actually jerks and not true leaders, or they picked up what they thought a “leader” was through films and tv shows, when they were really just jerk characters.

Its like a bluff. They don’t knkw how to be a leader but they’re doing what they think a leader does. And they just are a b1tch/a$$hole person with some power.


79 posted on 01/30/2024 3:55:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Over the years I’ve given this thought with regard to others and even myself.

I tend to agree with your thought processes and conclusions.


80 posted on 01/30/2024 3:59:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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