i can’t believe that they’ve fired Capt Honors … severe over reaction !!

Captain Honor is being fired because Pentagon and Washington leadership don’t want to admit that true warfighters are rarely politically correct. I challenge anyone to go through an Infantry or Armor barracks and not find something that would make a sailor blush.

Captain Honor’s one mistake was in acting this way in a medium that could be seen outside the small circle of people who get the joke. And if some on his ship complained about it, he should have toned it down a bit instead of poking fun at them. Other than that, all he was trying to do was bring a bit of levity to Groundhog Day.

The danger to officers in command of everything except the media has been around since Patton slapping a soldier in Sicily (I believe), but there was a war on so they put him in charge of a phony army until they needed him to beat the Soviets to Berlin… okay, they didn’t allow him that either, but they knew he was important enough for fighting that his media role wasn’t critical. MacArthur was much better at media, and not as good at war, although he had a bunch.

Something about the current American Media Culture, people are really starting to fear it, and exposure. Wasn’t there a groups of Tailhook folks?

wv — impin (your imagine and honor)

Commanding a carrier is the epitome of a navel career, after that, you basically fly or drive a desk at some HQ somewhere. For this stuff to appear 4 years after the cruise smells like a lot of the anointed ones political appointees. Somebody has an axe to grind and with it coming out around the time of the repeal of DADT smells like political opportunism.

You’ll probably find this article interesting.

Why Our Best Officers are Leaving

http://tinyurl.com/2dkxuff

To ruin an officer’s career over something to trivial is a crime, but typical of what we have come to expect from the PC liberal leftists that run so much of the government, including the military.

I’m sure the ripples from this will spread throughout the Navy and the rest of the military. More bright young men and women will decide that their talents can be better utilized in the private sector.

Somewhere, years from now in a place I probably can’t imagine, soldiers or sailors will die because in 2011 a promising young officer hung it up and went off to be a civilian.

Another thing for which to hate Obama and his PC administration.

A victory for those who Col David Hackworth labeled “Perfumed Princes”. Today he would probably add “and Princesses”.

Just once I would like to see our national civilian leadership show a fraction of the guts our troops at the tip of the spear show everyday.