Your 2024 relieved Naval Commander Thread

[Devildoc]

One was serious about doing Navy things, the other was block checking and doing social justice things yet cannot grasp why they are having giant issues now?

Huh, such a toughie to figure out why.

I also think that was an era in which COs had more latitude in doling out punishment. It seems like now ("now" being the past few decades) it's knee-jerking with no critical thinking.

 

[AWP]

Wasn't that directly after WW1 when the Germans who surrendered and were treated like crap, scuttled their spoils of war for the allies as a way to save the German Navy's honor? Or was this from something else?

You're thinking of what happened at Scapa Flow. My pictures are of the Honda Point Disaster.

Honda Point disaster - Wikipedia

Disaster at Honda Point

Curiously, I'd never heard of the incident until I saw I YT video with the story.

 

[Devildoc]

You're thinking of what happened at Scapa Flow. My pictures are of the Honda Point Disaster.

Honda Point disaster - Wikipedia

Disaster at Honda Point

Curiously, I'd never heard of the incident until I saw I YT video with the story.

I had not known about this. That's nuts. More nuts is all the officers were acquitted at court martial.

 

[Marauder06]

Wow what a mess!

 

[BloodStripe]

I asked a naval officer about this once, I asked something like, is it really that big of a deal to fire a CO for something as minor as a soft grounding? His response was that is basic seamanship 101, and an unforgivable act. If a naval officer can't manage that, they don't deserve command.

This wasn’t the first grounding that ship experienced during that deployment.

 

[Marauder06]

Admiral’s romance with Pentagon official could be central in bribery case

Wow.

Brought his mistress with him to negotiate a bribe? That's some next-level chicanery.

A career Pentagon official who had a romantic relationship with a married four-star admiral could become a key government witness against him, according to his lawyer and court filings in a high-profile U.S. military corruption case that accuses the admiral of steering work to a New York company in exchange for post-retirement employment. The woman is the only uncharged person who attended a key lunch meeting in July 2021, where prosecutors allege the Navy’s former second-highest-ranking officer, Adm. Robert P. Burke, 62, agreed with two executives to award a sole-source contract and help win further Navy business for their company in exchange for a $500,000-a-year job and stock options after he retired.

Read more at: Admiral’s romance with Pentagon official could be central in bribery case
Source - Stars and Stripes

 

[DA SWO]

Admiral’s romance with Pentagon official could be central in bribery case

Wow.

Brought his mistress with him to negotiate a bribe? That's some next-level chicanery.

She's trying to save her job, or retirement.
4-star retires as a 2-star, probation after his guilty plea.

 

[Marauder06]

She's trying to save her job, or retirement.
4-star retires as a 2-star, probation after his guilty plea.

He stayed with his wife. So I think it’s likely the mistress is the one who told on him.

 

[The Quartermaster]

He stayed with his wife. So I think it’s likely the mistress is the one who told on him.

A lover scorned eh?

 

[AWP]

Burke attorney Tim Parlatore

Parlatore also defended Eddie Gallagher, organized crime figures, and Donald Trump.

 

[Marauder06]

A lover scorned eh?

That's kind of what it reads like to me.

 

[DA SWO]

Commander of the McCain is gone.

Navy fires captain of USS John S. McCain for "loss of confidence"

Poor guy has to do two more years before he can retire. That'll be a hard two years in a crappy staff job.

 

[Kaldak]

Commander of the McCain is gone.

Navy fires captain of USS John S. McCain for "loss of confidence"

Poor guy has to do two more years before he can retire. That'll be a hard two years in a crappy staff job.

Staff job? Nah, they'll put him in charge of a marksmanship course.

 

[“The Old Man”]

Staff job? Nah, they'll put him in charge of a marksmanship course.

Hopefully with any optics mounted correctly

 

[The Quartermaster]

Staff job? Nah, they'll put him in charge of a marksmanship course.

Oof, didn't realize he was THAT GUY with the backwards VCOG.

 

[“The Old Man”]

Oof, didn't realize he was THAT GUY with the backwards VCOG.

Not sure if he is that guy. I grew up with the Navy. So figured there was more than one of them. Just based off of my experience.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Not sure if he is that guy. I grew up with the Navy. So figured there was more than one of them. Just based off of my experience.

Click the link to the article. He was definitely that guy, my friend.

 

[Blizzard]

I have nothing more to add...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1831082289000067471

 

[The Quartermaster]

That's a man, baby!

 

[“The Old Man”]

I have nothing more to add...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1831082289000067471

Doom on us