Posted on 04/27/2021 9:21:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA
I was gonna say. The last twenty-thirty years they make it sound like no women ever made it to be colonel or captain, much less general or admiral.
That says a lot...in this PC environment you just know the ship had to be a giant CLUSTER for her to be given the boot.
I was at Fort Bliss in 1976 for ADA Officers Basic Course. Every Friday afternoon, the O'Club had strippers performing. Also, 2-3 times a week, the William Beaumont O'Club had strippers perform during the lunch hour.
That all came to a screeching halt when the next CG came in. Apparently, his wife made the mistake of going to the club with friends on a Friday afternoon.
I truly despise wives that wore their husband's rank. I couldn't respect the officer that let his wife get away with that crap, either.
My last two years in Germany, I worked at Battalion HQ. The Colonel's secretary always ordered an anatomically correct birthday cake for all of us. Hilarity ensued when the cherry was consumed.
Nowhere, except in todays politicized military, would this useless trivia matter.
I got one of the nanowires at that meeting.
What a fun person to speak. We were very fortunate to get her.
In the USN, the Captain IS the ship. When the Captain is piped aboard, the Bosun of the Watch marks the event by announcing the ship’s name over the 1MC, the ship’s public address circuit.
So yes, as with regiments, a bad Captain = A bad ship and a bad crew.
Nope. A Captain of a US Navy vessel offering the excuse that he has a bad crew would get laughed out of the Navy after they were relieved.
There are no bad crews, only bad Captains.
My division lead also sold sodas for our own Recreation Fund - MWR tried to shut him down for stealing sales, so he moved the small frig he kept sodas in, to a radar space, painted it grey and glued dials on it so it looked like radar equipment. No one ever found the frig, and we kept selling sodas the entire WestPac.
FTA: Dawley was the first female commanding officer of the Hopper. She was also the first woman to command a warship named after a woman.
There lies the problem. It was a ‘diversity’ assignment and not competence.
Looks like Larry King in uniform.
Rooster Cogburn: A man will not work for a woman, not unless he has clabber for brains.
LOL I nearly spit my drink down my shirt when I read that!!!
“Many visits to Subic and Cubi Pt. in the 70s & 80s. The Navy in Olongapo and the Air Force in Angeles City ran VD clinics in town to regularly check the bar girls. I remember some girls would try to get a legal hold on their honeyco’s just before leaving port. A few hundred pesos usually resolved the “misunderstanding.”:
I was an ET2 on the USS Mars (AFS-1). I did two West Pacs, one in 78-79 and one 81-82. I remember that, too.
>>I was an ET2 on the USS Mars (AFS-1). I did two West Pacs, one in 78-79 and one 81-82. I remember that, too.<<
We must have been in the same battle group — Kitty Hawk.
If you were in the IO during that time we definitely sailed together at some point. We went from carrier group to carrier group. We had a near collision with a carrier during an unrep and it seems like it may have been the Kitty Hawk. Does that ring a bell with you?
Yep, that was us. I was with the airwing on KH, VF-111. Cold shot of pee to the heart to hear the collision alarm; like it was yesterday.
Good times. When I had just got on board the Mars we had a non-near collision with the USS Cook. I watched this happen from about 30 feet away.
May 14, 1979 off Point Loma, Ca.
USS COOK (FF 1083) and USS MARS collide off Point Loma near San Diego, Ca., injuring seven.
https://www.navysite.de/afs/afs1.htm
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