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Navy: Deployed CO Retreated to Cabin for Weeks
Military.com ^ | August 8, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 08/13/2014 3:05:44 PM PDT by QT3.14

A Navy investigation finds the ailing skipper of a San Diego-based Navy cruiser retreated to his cabin for several weeks in the middle of a deployment, leaving the 330-member crew leaderless.

The probe also revealed that the skipper of the USS Cowpens, Capt. Gregory W. Gombert, was having an improper and "unduly familiar" relationship with the cruiser's acting executive officer, U-T San Diego reported Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: destinysavage; fratenization; gregorygombert; military; navy; usscowpens
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To: Drew68
Sounds like you've had nothing but peacetime duty. Just wait til your ship has been shot up in an engagement with a Chinese or Russian vessel, or some ISIS-manned dingy has blown a bomb against the hull, or Iranian gunboats are strafing you. When you're lying there with your leg blown off or burning to death, I'm sure you'll feel great comfort when you see Destiny Savage mincing over to drag you to safety.

Whats that? Oh, I forgot. That sort of thing doesn't happen anymore. Nope, it can't happen at all...At all...

101 posted on 08/13/2014 4:42:58 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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To: Drew68

Being performed by an officer? LOL!


102 posted on 08/13/2014 4:47:07 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: molson209
And what physically grueling tasks would you find aboard a navy cruiser?

In peacetime? Very few.

In combat, with the ship hit and in flames, and the need to wrestle heavy hoses to put out fires, drag wounded men to safety, and wrestle heavy metal patches into place at holes to stop water from flooding in? Potentially quite a lot.

103 posted on 08/13/2014 4:49:01 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Drew68
All of which I've seen female members of damage control teams perform just fine.

For how long? A half hour drill? How many hours were people working damage control on the USS Cole?

104 posted on 08/13/2014 4:59:28 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Cowpens must be an unlucky ship; one of the previous CO’s was no other than “horrible” Holly Graf who was fired for physically and verbally abusing the crew, and falsifying the ship’s log.

After Horrible Holly, an absentee skipper might have been a welcome reprieve. Still, that doesn’t excuse his conduct as a CO. One thing I admire the Navy for: unlike my old branch (the USAF), the naval service is quick to get rid of COs, XOs and CMCs who don’t measure up.


105 posted on 08/13/2014 5:06:53 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Neanderthal
Students for Barack Obama...Barack Obama...Chick-fil-A Boycott For Being Anti-Gay...

Just about covers her agenda.

106 posted on 08/13/2014 5:07:09 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: PapaBear3625
For how long? A half hour drill? How many hours were people working damage control on the USS Cole?

Good question. I don't know. I wasn't among the men and women who kept USS Cole from sinking.

Cole was a co-ed ship. In fact, 2 out of the 17 sailors killed were female. But they kept their ship afloat.

107 posted on 08/13/2014 5:07:41 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: GeronL

What? Pole dancing?


108 posted on 08/13/2014 5:28:28 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: B212

they say that in the Army the women are mighty fine, well they look like Phyllis Diller and march like Frankenstein...


109 posted on 08/13/2014 5:44:36 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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To: QT3.14

saw that w my 1sg in Iraq.


110 posted on 08/13/2014 7:28:09 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: GeronL

A very small child


111 posted on 08/13/2014 8:12:41 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: Drew68

I have a couple more years at sea than you have in the Navy (all on Submarines), retired as a Red Stripe Senior Chief.

Also spent 4 years in the USMC before joining the Navy.

I agree with your statement and confirm it. The Israeli Army (IDF) does it right. They assign females to tasks that they can accomplish, and, also, assign males to tasks that they can accomplish. Not according to some fancy feel good politically correct policy, but according to ability.

Sorry that I didn’t reply sooner, I was out killing the last remaining healthy brain cells that I had.

Semper Fi and I wish you following seas and smooth sailing.

HLB


112 posted on 08/13/2014 8:19:40 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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To: Drew68

“perform just fine.”

Maybe you believe that; I don’t.


113 posted on 08/13/2014 8:55:34 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: tet68
She's fun-sized


114 posted on 08/13/2014 9:37:08 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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To: BenLurkin

She, at least, looks like she could out-run the porker on the right.


115 posted on 08/14/2014 3:37:39 AM PDT by Makana
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Destiny Savage - cruise director.


116 posted on 08/14/2014 3:57:11 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Oztrich Boy

“Fun-sized”

In war she could be a tunnel rat.

I used to date a short girl; while she was self-conscious about it (successfully begging Motor Vehicles to put 5’ on her license when she was 4’ 11”), I’d tell her it was cool that she could fit in small spaces like a hobbit. We never saw eye-to-eye on it...


117 posted on 08/14/2014 4:12:50 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Drew68

And your reply is proof of just how far we have fallen from being truly combat ready and how deep the kool-aid drinkers have eroded the warrior ethos.


118 posted on 08/14/2014 6:25:18 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Oztrich Boy
looks like a little girl playing dress-up...
119 posted on 08/14/2014 4:13:41 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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