Huckster gets free Masters Degree from Navy
Jeremy sends us a link to an article in the New York Times that celebrates Midshipman, Then Pacifist: Rare Victory to Leave Navy. Michael Izbicki graduated from the Naval Academy and then got a degree in computer science at Johns Hopkins, and then he decided that being in the Navy is wrong.
Navy officers tried to persuade Mr. Izbicki to consider alternatives to discharge: Could he become a Navy medical officer or dentist? He replied that his pacifist beliefs were irreconcilable with any effort to prepare troops for battle. “I could not contribute in any way whatsoever,” he said.
Mr. Izbicki said he had made no plans for the future other than a return to his parents’ home in California. His discharge, he said, “has opened the whole world up to me.”
Funny how none of “his beliefs” occurred to him until he’d completed his studies and it was all paid for by the American taxpayer. The article doesn’t say whether or not he’ll be burdened with a bill for not completing his commitment.
And I’m sure the Quakers will be glad to pay it for him.
Maybe getting a couple six-figure bill for his education will open up the whole world of work for him.
Category: Antiwar crowd
Make him an enlisted Navy corpsman and assign immediately to a deployed Marine infantry battalion.
The article I read said he would have to pay it back.
“He replied that his pacifist beliefs were irreconcilable with any effort to prepare troops for battle. “I could not contribute in any way whatsoever,” he said.”
Tell that to Alvin York; dickhead.
And Richard Nixon. And anyone who has ever served in the Chaplain Corps, et al.
I hope the IRS pursues this dickhead with all the compassion of a Hun.
In four years at the Naval Academy, not once did some Gunny, Master Chief or officer look into the man’s eyes and say ‘you will pull the trigger. You will kill on command.’ I find that hard to fathom.
It’s best for the nation that this man isn’t in a position of responsibility, moral or otherwise. Flip side: we know how to get the Navy to roll over like a beat goat (beat and bleat?): sic the ACLU on it.
On the plus side: he hasn’t written any books yet on drive-by interrogations.
“Mr. Izbicki said he had made no plans for the future other than a return to his parents’ home in California.”
Back home with Mummy and DaDa…where he belongs.
Yeah…I can just see you in your basement play room, in your under-roos…listening to Lady GaGa on your i Phone or i Pod…playing COD on the computer.
Cuz you were just too sensitive and weak to do it for real…
Fucking weakling…God please let him be gay, so he won’t breed and further corrupt the gene pool in this country!
I would have to oppose any thought of making this jerk a corpsman and assigning to the FMF. His very presence would contaminate all those who came into contact with him.
On the other hand, five years as an E-1 cleaning grease traps and scrubbing heads on hands and knees at NTC Great Lakes might be worthwhile.
He’ll gain fame as the new IVAW poster boy
Glad he’s gone, much as I like the cleaning grease traps and scrubbing heads idea.
The Navy is lucky to get rid of him.
We’re all lucky.
This is a great day. One less scumbag near a uniform.
So, he’s eligible for membership in IVAW, amiright?
I pity whoever hires him. His ability to think only of himself, and how to game the system, is very nearly terrifying.
I would think that a charge of fraud would be in line for Izbicki. It can be argued,most likely successfully, that he went to the Naval Academy and then on to Johns Hopkins, fully intending to defraud the U.S. government and the taxpayers. Unless, one subscribes to the overnight conversion theory, and I don’t.
And, whoever hires this POS deserves him, if they can’t do a limited background check on his ass.
And, I’m sure he’s already being considered to have an IVAW chapter named after him.
This story reminds me of the knucklehead who showed up to his first boat back in 2005 (after getting a full ROTC scholarship) and saying he was suddenly “claustrophobic” and therefore couldn’t finish off his commitment. Who would have thought that choosing submarines and being claustrophobia may not be a good idea?
I was told it was a felony when one falsely claims something to get out of service. I’m pretty sure the Navy shouldn’t let this one go. More than paying back for the education received (Annapolis is still thought well of in some circles) he must pay for the lies told, and the fraudulent way he screwed the Gov’t. Especially in THIS economy.