Saturday, August 8, 2015

Brave Pentagon bureaucracy punts on the cognitive dissonance of it all. This doesn't mean his career isn't ruined in any case.

Official: Navy Won’t Charge Officer Who Used Personal Firearm To Take Down Chattanooga Shooter.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm. Guess they didn't want to prompt more gunfire at their Jade Helm operations.

Anonymous said...

The U.S. federal government is firmly in the hands of our enemies, the enemies of the Founders, and the enemies of freedom. I expected nothing good from them and I have not been disappointed. I pray for those brave Americans under the command of the Destroyer-In-Chief, who must obey him and his demons. May God keep them from harm, and give them strength and wisdom.

Dilbertnomore said...

Even if a future selection board puts him on the Commander last be will need to be confirmed by the Senate. That will, quite likely, be problematic. He will suffer professional consequences for the very good action be took.

The right answer would be a medal, early promotion to Commander and a command of an aviation squadron.

Otto Didact said...

It's a damned shame but on the upside, there're worse things than collecting half an O-4's pay while working a civilian job. LOTS worse things.

One of the finest officers and managers it was ever my pleasure and honor to serve under/work for was rifted and forced to retire as an O-4 (Major USAF, same as Lt Commander USN) because of his weight. The man was a truly GREAT middle manager. Frank Rodeffer knew more of what was happening in the comm squadron maintenance dept (he was Chief of Maintenance) than anybody. He knew more from skimming the raw computer dumps than I could tell him after 3 solid hours of crunching numbers with a calculator (PCs didn't exist yet). I don't think he would necessarily have made a great CEO/COO of a Fortune 500 corporation but he damned well was a sierra hotel mid level manager. I would bet serious money this LtCdr is a damned fine officer as well. Would likely have made a hellova Destroyer or Frigate or Cruiser or LCV Skipper some day. Instead he's gonna get beached. Sometimes I wonder how we ever manage to win wars. Guess it's true that the winner in a war is the side that makes fewer monumentally boneheaded mistakes. I know that in WWII the only role the NAVY brass could think up for submarines was as auxiliary vessels for surface fleets - a role for which they were unsuited because they were slow running topside and even slower (and not very maneuverable) submerged. Fortunately the IJN relieved us of our surface fleet so they sent the subs out to see what mischief they could get into. Turns out U.S. subs accounted for more tonnage sunk than the rest of the Navy and the Air Corps COMBINED. Basically, if it was flying the Rising Sun and a sub skipper saw it it got sunk. The U.S. subs went after everything from Battleships and Carriers to sampans. In the case of little boats that weren't worth a torpedo they'd surface and sink the enemy with MG or deck guns. It was nothing for a lone sub to attack an entire IJN task force alone. They seldom returned to port with torpedoes or deck gun ammo still on board. And someone who'd likely gladly have followed in that tradition is gonna get beached. Makes me sick to my stomach.

Anonymous said...

He's alive and we should all learn why. He's alive and a bad guy is dead because he practiced natural law. I know some in the .mil consider what he did to be breaking the rules, I get it. But he's alive. Fuck political correctness and no his career shouldn't be trashed but how many people would be room temperature if he hadn't. Damn when did we become so stupid as a nation. Idiocracy was not a training video but here we sit.