Pipe Aboard the New Four Star
New Admiral, but in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), not the Navy. Who are these folks? From their site:
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is an elite team of more than 6,000 well-trained, highly qualified public health professionals dedicated to delivering the nation’s public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science.
Of course Joe’s handlers thought the U.S. assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine, would make a fine four star there.
MarineDad61 sends.
Rachel Levine, openly transgender health official, to be sworn in as four-star admiral
Dan Diamond
A senior Biden health appointee who made history when she became the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official is also set to become its first openly transgender four-star officer, the administration announced on Tuesday.
Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health, will be sworn in Tuesday as an admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a 6,000-person force that responds to health crises on behalf of the federal government, including administering coronavirus vaccines and delivering care after hurricanes. Levine is also the organization’s first-ever female four-star admiral.
In an interview, Levine stressed that her new position as an admiral was “not just symbolic,” and that she would take a leadership role in shaping the public health corps’ priorities. “I’m doing this because of my dedication to service . . . [and] with the utmost respect and honor for the uniform that I will be wearing,” Levine said, adding she would begin wearing the group’s blue uniform immediately.
He’ll look fabulous, but is he qualified? Most likely, although the professorship of psychiatry at Penn State is, unique. Medice, cura te ipsum.
Bad optics, though. His decisions as Pennsylvania’s health secretary required nursing homes to accept Covid patients are questionable. The real problem is in moving his own mother out of one as soon as it became known this was a very bad idea.
Thanks, MD61.
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OK, let me take care of your guy’s light work before you get all riled up.
I’m ready to declare you the winner, but we must allow due diligence.
Sarcasm is just another service we offer here at TAH.
*grin*
Fine, and I give you this…
Sorry, no spew alert.
Submitted for your approval:
Fkcking CLASSIC!!
Always good.
IN THE NAVY!
Sapper3307,
Village People’s preview homage to Stolen Valor.
Life imitates disco and Village People,
in articles right here at VG:
Fake Admiral
(before Fake Admiral, he was a Fake Police Officer)
Fake Navy NCO
Fake Indian.
Fake biker wearing leather.
Fake wearing cowboy hat.
Fake in the construction business.
You just highlighted the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) main problem for Halloween.
Which alter ego does he choose?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnWKBe4_Lk
Leaked footage?
Full size official photo of “Admiral Levine”.
Includes 4 RIBBONS
— (Can anyone identify those??).
And the sleeves.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” (Jerry Seinfeld)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/10/dr-rachel-levine-becomes-first-transgender-four-star-officer-across-uniformed-service-branches/
They’re Public Health Service ribbons:
1. PHS PUC
2. PHS Covid Campaign Medal
3. PHS Regular Corps ribbon
4. Commissioned Corps training ribbon
Top row is Public Health Service Presidential Unit Citation.
Second row is Public Health Service COVID19 Pandemic Campaign Medal, Public Health Service Regular Corps Ribbon, and Commissioned Corps Training Ribbon.
Sleeves are standard USN-style 4-star insignia, capped by the PHSCC insignia instead of the star (USN) or shield (USCG).
I knew Ricky/Rachel would look fabulous in uniform. He/she?/it is wearing a little lipstick and earings, but no nail polish, so Rache has that going for “them.” By the way does this non-menstruating person have an actual medical degree?
Pediatrician.
Posted elsewhere, valid here…
Thank you for service??? BlaRGGGGZ!
My reaction to the photo.
Is this the new Admiral?
http://directconversations.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Brent-Spiner-in-Independence-Day-Resurgence.jpg
Huh, ya learn something new everyday. Apparently the stars come from the posting as Assistant Secretary of Health. Per wikipedia (the greatest reference source, I know): “The assistant secretary serves a nominal four-year term at the pleasure of the president. If the appointee is also a serving uniformed officer of the commissioned corps, by statute, he or she is appointed as a four-star admiral and is the highest ranking officer in the commissioned corps,[1][2] as no other position in the Public Health Service is designated as a four-star office.”
That being said: the commission as a 4 star doesnt HAVE to happen. Dr. Howard Koh served in the same posting from 2009-2014 and was never commissioned.
Same with the Surgeon General, who rates star PHS rank as an admiral. Remember C. Everette Coop?
Koop, Jocelyn Elders, David Satcher….quite a few. Based off the wikipedia article (God, I hate using that), apparently it depends on if they get pulled from the “Executive Schedule IV” route or the USPHS route.
Apparently the PHSCC doesn’t have any uniform standards. I feel bad for the tailor that’s going to have to sew two dress jackets together to get things to stretch across that thing’s acreage.
Uniforms tailored by Omar the Tentmaker.
Or the Eureka tent Company!
Beyond f*cking belief.
Hey look! We can all put in for a “Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Training Ribbon”. On sale now for…….. “ding-a-ling-a-ling”…only a buck forty nine at your favorite online stolen valor website. Gettem while they’re hot!
Gotta luv a hot woman in uniform. /sarc (grin)
https://www.usamm.com/products/public-health-service-commissioned-corps-training-service-ribbon
Since many of us have survived the Chicom Flu and/or the jab, as well as all the bullshit mandates of the pandemic, we should all be entitled to some of these service ribbons. I want a couple for my “love me” shadow box. This shit has lasted longer than my fifteen months in the Viet of the Nam and I received two “I was there” ribbons for that stint.
Here you go rgr769.
Wanna go in together and get two to save on shipping? (grin)
https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Pandemic-Campaign-Military-Veteran/dp/B08R27GMF3
OH WTFingF?!
Is this for real? So if you survived the Coof you’re eligible? I’m rocking one, pretty sure I made it.
Jury’s still out.
Purple Lung Medal for the victims of ChiComm/USNI’H’UNC@CH-1984?
That thing looks like what happens when you order the hallowed and respected NDSM off of Wish.
Easy on the NDSM which is the only one I have beside the AFEM.
(Op Power Pack 1965)
Maybe we could all get together on a TAH group buy. Guys on the Corvette forum do that all the time for certain popular after market stuff for their cars.
To be precise, Rachel Levine will Be serving as a Rear Admiral.
At Brucie’s Bath House [entrance in the rear]… Really, though… What in the ever loving fuck is this country coming to? I wonder if it is signed up for Milley’s “Woke Book of the Month” club yet…
Don’t confuse Uniformed Services with Armed Services. The comissioned Corps of USPHS and NOAA acount for two uniformed services not included in the Armed Forces/Armed Services.
Has the Admiral commented yet on the most pressing issue of our time, that being the wearing of nail polish while in uniform?
Why does the Public Health Service require anything remotely resembling a military uniform and rank? Pointless, other than virtue signalling. On second thought, that’s the entire Biden administration. Never mind.
That would not even look good at 0245 after 2 six packs of Narragansett Beer and a half a bottle of Jaegermeister.
“Levine is also the organization’s first-ever female four-star admiral.”
Female… no. No. Jesus… Mary… Joseph… no. My ears are ringing. I think my head’s going to explode.
So, in the future if a transgender woman switches back to being a cisgender woman and then becomes a four star admiral would she have an asterisk beside her name?
Asking for a friend, of course.
Man, I am not flexible enough for that kind of mental gymnastics. Damn arthritis.
Just think nobunny…that murderous whatever it identifies as, has the same X chromies that Sam has. Only an anthropologist knows for sure. (ducks and runs) 😛
Nuh-uh. Negative.
Sam’s mere presence would make Rachel’s X piss its pants, and then her Y would kill itself.
It takes a real man to break the glass ceiling.
First mass murderer admiral, that’d be more accurate… In a just world it would be facing life in prison, or a long drop on a short rope..
Life Imitates “The Onion?”
https://www.theonion.com/man-finally-put-in-charge-of-struggling-feminist-moveme-1819569515
Yeah, “female” my ass. Just because a dude doesn’t want to have genitals any more and wants fake tits, doesn’t make him a female. If a gorilla wants to be a wombat and believes he is a wombat, doesn’t make it a wombat. As a matter of biological fact Levine still has Y chromosomes whether he likes it or not. Feelz doesn’t count in biology or any other science.
Pre-cise-ly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
At least this timeline is funny… and I mean fuunnaayy.
Out of curiousity and a sincere question, not sarcasm: Does Levine still have a penis and testacles?
Levine is about 64 years old. Is there a possibility Levine could develop prostate problems such as prostate cancer, enlargement of prostate resulting in difficulty of urination, testicular cancer, erectile dysfunction, etc. etc…
And if that happens, then how would Medical Doctors/Hospitals annotate on any of the above on Levine’s medical records…Would they say ” Tests review ‘She’has an Enlarged Prostate”..?
Or is Levine on Female Hormone Therapy? Always wonder what would happen if that hormone suddenly became unavailable to those who consistantly need to take it, Female or Male.
Are those positions in the PHS permanent or is it similiar to Surgeon Generals positions based on who is POTUS?
And in the meantime, there are still crickets out there from the Biden Administration about presenting SFC Cashe’s Family his APPROVED MOH (signed by President Trump in December 2020) as well as Biden getting a Physical (he will turn 79 in December).
Correction… Biden will turn 79 in November.
ninja;
My dancing partner and friend just hit 80 this past August and she could do circles around biden (supreme ruler) And thanks for wishing me good health (rotator cuff revovery) last week during the Hope comments.
If men can now be “pregnant persons”, it’s only fair that women can have prostate cancer. It’s called “equality”. Enjoy the Lupron, admiral.
Don’t confuse Uniformed Services with Armed Services. The comissioned Corps of USPHS and NOAA acount for two uniformed services not included in the Armed Forces/Armed Services.
YGTBFSM! Richard Leland (Rachel) Levine, the ugliest man or woman I have ever seen, is going straight to full Admiral. F’ing why?
How many Vice Admirals are slapping their heads and saying WTF?
And when admiral Levine makes and official call, the PFC working at WHCA will answer ”Hello this is (Rank Name) here, how may I help you Sir or Ma’am?”, and both terms will be accurate. Either that, or he will be crucified for assuming her gender.
Former ASH headshed, ADM Brett Giroir looked very much like someone grabbed him from central casting to be an admiral. Seen him many times at the podium or TV interviews, and the guy just had the right stuff, imo.
Jesus H Christ! That “ thing” should be trolling the back alleys in Olongapo PI. Looks like Cousin IT’s sister.
FJB
Olongapo has way more class. At least they have cock fights.
charles w,
On stage?
Vice Admiral Vivek AKA Surgeon General is also playing dress up in NAVY blues.
Lars has a bride to be?
Not even!
Touche’.
That kinda says it all about Richard.
You said “pipe”…. hehehe
Control + F …”Hunter”…*not found*.
Guys, I’m really disappointed.
OK, ok, I’ll do it.
“Speaking of hitting the pipe, I’m certain Hunter should show him(er) a thing or two. Hell, He’d probably get High as shit and try to have sex with it.
Because I got my video of Said Presidential Son smoking crack and such deleted from Toob of You, SNL has got me covered. Kinda like South Park, they were ahead of their time (2013)
Ahem… It is now the U.S. Pubic Health Service under Admiral Rachel Levine. Open Ranks MARCH! Prepare for for Short Arm inspection!
Is that Lori Lightfoot?
Do not insult Admiral Ackbar like that.
Ackbar is a 60 year old fish, yet probably smells better than Mayor Beetlejuice.
Yes, he is one handsome fish compared to Lightfoot. They should have an ugliest female politician contest like the one we have for dogs evey year. I’d put my money on Lori for first place and Mad Maxine for second.
“Pipe aboard the new 4 star”???
I’ll pass on this one….
🙂
(define pipe…..) 🙂
If you mean a 3 ft lead pipe applied liberally about the head and shoulders, count me in!
Not using the Admiral as an example; it is good the USPHS has updated the uniform. In 1983, I met an Ensign and I thought I stepped into a time warp and ended up somewhere in the early 1900’s. All she lacked was the straw hat to make the uniform complete.
I think she looks FABULOUS!!!!
Base pay looks like about $140.000 a year + dependdas and BHA and others puts it around $190.000 a year.
Can the Rear Admiral score two months of maternity leave like he Secretary of Transportation?
Not like “Secretary” Butt-googly has ever done anything constructive in the first place.
The word on the street is that the D-rat power brokers promised Buttplug a cabinet seat if he dropped out of the race and immediately endorsed Gropey Joe. So he took the deal.
He might have needed the love stich?
Wonder if he has mastered breastfeeding yet.
Well. If that’s all there is to it, I wanna be a 6-star chief corporal major space shuttle door gunner. Only 3-time awardees of the NDSM are eligible for that sorta thing, doncha know. Of course, we must also be fully vaxxed and flued. (Shingles and Hep C are optional.)
Uniforms are also optional. Masks are not.
I don’t care much about the mystery genitalia. But that stuff in PA about the nursing homes was not cool. The admiral would be the first one to hop off to the secret bunker of there was a real threat to public health all while giving bad advice.
5JC,
That’s the consensus in Pennsylvania.
Only exceptions are the Dems
with horseblinders on for Gov. Wolf and/or Levine.
Someone mentioned this above, but there are Uniformed Services and Armed Services. All the Armed Services are uniformed, but not all of
The Uniformed Services are armed… technically the Coast Guard is Armed but not Military, but some will argue with that…
The NOAA Commissioned Corps (we have a big presence where I live so I actually see them a lot) is part of the Department of Commerce; they run survey vessels and have a flying service as well- they go to OCS at the Coast a guard Academy get commissioned, and do a lot of really cool and important stuff- my cousin is an ensign and he is doing some sort of ocean floor mapping project.
The USPHS is part of Health and Human Services, wears naval uniforms and follows naval rank and customs and courtesies, but have heir own awards, etc. The US Surgeon General is actually in the USPHS and that’s why everyone thinks that dude is in the Navy. Most of them are practitioners.
At any rate, they are commissioned officers and due all the customs and courtesies of their rank- salutes, etc.
Where you find a lot of USPHS physicians actually practicing hands-on medicine is in the Indian Health Service. In his former life as a government marketing manager for big pharma, young Poe dealt with these folks in Indian hospitals and clinics from Florida to Alaska.
He cannot recall ever being unduly impressed. In fact, unlike the many memorable military physicians and physician assistants he dealt with, he cannot recall a single USPHS doctor or PA.
The Washington DC headquarters of the Indian Health service was probably the most dismal and unimpressive operation Poe ever had to deal with. Even the worst VA operation he experienced in three decades made the IHS look bad. Calling on the reservations and their health care providers was a truly depressing experience.
Those people deserve better, much better…
In the late 70’s when I worked at the Chicago MEPS, the USPHS hospital was 2 blocks away. We went there for dental care. I asked my dentist one day if she ever shopped at the Exchange or Commissary. She didn’t know about them so I offered to drive her to Great Lakes to show her the Exchange and Commissary on a Saturday when we weren’t working.
When I picked her up she was in uniform, TW’s (tropical weight khakis), and wore her silver oak leaf. A platoon of recruits was marching by the Exchange and the Navy Drill Instructor saluted her. All she could do was giggle, wave and say “hello boys!”. I gave her a quick lesson on military protocol.
So, this dude gets to pull in Admiral pay plus his GS-97 government job pay?
Can anyone confirm?
The book deal & Netflix special is the big payoff.
I don’t think so. I think it is similar to reserve pay. So she received additional compensation for her days of duty in the unformed health services, but not two distinct salaries.
“He received”, it’s not a female, never was, never will be.
The Unformed Health Services have a very bizarre promotion process with temporary ranks and rank is often assigned based on appointment to specific jobs.
Best I can tell is she was promoted to admiral because she was appointed by Biden to be an assistant secretary of health which includes the rank of admiral for uniformed health services members.
It is similar to the Surgeon General being immediately promoted to admiral upon appointment.
While she is technically the first transgender officer to hold a flag rank, she will have a metaphorical asterisk by her name.
He, its science.
Then you don’t understand the science.
Gender is not binary. Not even in nature. All fetuses start female. Over the course of the pregnancy what makes someone male is a long development process that includes more than merely genitalia. Hormonal changes, physical changes, and changes in the brain all occur during a fetuses transition to the male gender. Like tens of thousand of other developmental issues that can happen during a fetuse’s development the development of the male gender can be incomplete.
Gender can even be difficult to assign at birth by doctors even when using physical examination and tests, and that does not include the incredibly complicated process of psychological gender developemt that happens while a child matures to adulthood,
That’s a mental health issue.
It is not ONLY a mental health issue, it also includes physical developmental problems. And it is a mental health issue in the same way autism, and other developmental issue are “mental health”.
Lars, there’s millions of people out there who know what you know about fetal development and the psychology of gender development (and more) and still assert that a transgender female does not equate to female (XX). Matter of fact, I believe it’s a roaring academic and medical debate – with one side consistently shouting down the other. Here’s what it all boils down to: GD opinion.
All it takes is a hour or so of research or reading. But first you need to decide to stop being intransigently ignorant on the subject.
I majored in biology.
There are still millions of people who spent a little more than an hour or two reading about it, and disagree with you. You are not the sole possessor of THE TRUTH.
Your opinion means less than nothing because of your obvious political bias, presented ad nauseum on this blog.
“It” transitioned at age 53 and had an ex-wife per “It’s” Wikipedia page.
Chromosomes just don’t matter in most interactions with other humans. All I care about, for the most part, is that whoever it is does the job which brings me in contact with them. In fact, in most situations, I would rather not know anything specific about their genetalia, their sex habits, or anything else involving bodily fluids.
Sure, there are some situations where it becomes important. There are likely very few parents of young girls who want them observing swinging dicks in restrooms, for instance, or having those same little girls being ogled by anyone, with or without a penis.
Are they installing urinals in ladies rooms yet?
Who gives a fuck what this little goblin thinks about anything?
You you conservative elevate former incel fuckwits like this is beyond me.
This guy is an idiot that talks fast and says things you like to hear so you think he is some kind of intellectual.
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So you really can’t dispute anything he said? You have no reasonable argument to show what he said is incorrect? Your rebuttal is to throw your usual juvenile tantrum and resort to name calling? You’re a fraud, but at least you’re consistent. All the education at Berkeley can’t change basic biology.
“You you”? Fuckwit incel?!
Har… You still can’t spell or compose a logical sentence to save your useless life, Lars.
And while any kind of grammatical-aptitude is well out of reach for you and seemingly always will be, ‘Fuckwit-incel’ does describe you perfectly, Lars.
Commissar:
If you have the chance, could you please read this article based on your comment “All fetuses start female”?.
Thank You!
“All Mammals Start as Female: MYTH”
http://factmyth.com/factoids/all-mammals-start-as-female/
Additionally, the ninja family discovered a pregnancy when that one ninja family member was ALMOST 4 weeks pregnant (Doctors thought the pregnancy was a Fallopian tube pregnancy based on symptons) . That member had to have additional tests due to the possibility our child was going to be born with Downs Syndrome.
We were informed and knew at 4 weeks that not our child did not have Downs Syndrome.
We also knew we were going to have a son based on his XY Chromosome structure.
4 weeks.
Not 5,6,7 weeks.
He also had a heartbeat. At 4 weeks.
And came into our world 8 months later (a normal 9 month pregnancy).
Ultracrepidarian FRAUD…
*uniformed…not “unformed”.
And other mistakes too, probably.
Haven’t figured out how to use Spellcheck yet, Lars?
She was promoted to Admiral because it suits the Biden administrations agenda. Ability is not important. Qualifications are not important. Diversity is the priority.
“She was promoted to Admiral because it suits the Biden administrations agenda.”
Like this:
https://patriotpost.us/memes/83579-scarier-2021-10-20
Piped aboard with a couple toots on the old skin flute. Welcome, freak.