Another One Bites the Dust
It looks like another Navy Captain recently decided to sh!tcan his career.
The commander of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay was recently relieved. His relief had nothing to do with detainee operations. Rather, the Navy announced that he was relieved because of the proverbial “loss of confidence in his ability to command” for other reasons.
Why? It turns out that the guy was apparently playing around with a DoN civilian employee on base. That fact came to light when NCIS investigated the recent drowning of the lady’s husband in waters west of the base.
This Fox News story has a few more details – though they’re rather sparse at present. I’d guess more info will likely become public in the future.
Um, yeah. Hey, I can understand physical attraction. Sometimes it makes people do truly stupid things. But this case just looks awful – even if no criminal activity was involved.
Hope she was worth it, Captain. And I hope for your sake your resume is already written and looks really good.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Navy
Sounds like an episode of NCIS.
Shit happens when a man lets his pecker think for him!
Wrong head, no brains, too little blood supply.
Yup. Apparently we men have a brain, and a dick, but only enough blood to run one at a time.
I am a full demonstration of that point of view…
Sigh…
Sooooooo … that’s why I faint every time I get a hard-on….
The version I heard was, “Men have two heads, but lack enough blood to operate both simultaneously.” (smile)
“Too little blood supply”
And that’s a promise!
Yep, he should have given his pecker a “Code Red” in the shower whilst thinking of Demi Moore in Dress Whites instead of sniffing around the Rec Center.
Yeah if he’d have say, “Bopped his baloney” “Squished his squid”, “Milked his lizard”, “Pumped his porpoise” or just settled for a solitary game of five-fingered jack, his career and retirement could still be intact!
I think I saw this on Season 3.
Did he get publicly Gibbs-slapped?
A CSM once told me about this kind of thing, which I’ve remembered and lived by ever since:
“look, I’ve been in the army for 30 years, ain’t NO pussy in the world worth 30 years.”
He should’ve realized that as soon as GEN Petraeus got tagged for this, he wouldn’t survive. If a 4-star gets smacked for it, your lowly O-6 buttakhen isn’t going to make it.
Catastrophic zipper failure again
Excellent
My final assignment before retiring from the Army was as a classroom instructor and some of my students were very attractive young ladies. Even though I was divorced, I stayed far, far away from them and had no contact outside of the classroom. I was not going to let an angry or amorous female take away my military pension. No way.
This revelation that his name came up during the investigation of a death to a civilian spouse is interesting. I’m assuming that the relief is predicated on his association with the wife, not necessarily in the death of the husband. If he’s implicated in the death, he’s in a world of hurt.
NavCWORet: what I got from reading the Fox article was that the affair came to light during that investigation. I also got the impression that the NCIS investigation hadn’t yet determined whether the death was due to criminal activity or not.
But you’re right: if he’s implicated in the death, that’s a whole other issue. Right now, he’s only flushed his career. If he was involved in the guy’s death, well, . . . .
Hmmm, does Gibb’s Rule #39 apply here?
IMO, yes – but that may not be relevant. When dealing with independent actors having free will, “not a coincidence” does not necessarily imply “cause and effect” or “legally culpable”.
I am often reminded of a simple saying my uncle used to offer from time to time.
He would say, “Son, no matter how good she looks now remember that someone, somewhere is sick and tired of hearing her shit…”
I confess that while I have enjoyed the company of some very, very fine women over my lifetime I have yet to find any of that company worth losing my retirement income for because of the great sex…
Perhaps the real lesson here is that our military is now also reflective of many of the values of our current, instant gratification, self adoring society and the concept of self discipline over one’s impulses is no longer considered a necessary component appropriate to the qualifications of honorable men and women.
HA! My dad said something similiar but more like “for every good looking woman there is a guy tired of her shit.”
I’ve also wondered why on earth you’d complicate your relationship with another woman in your life.
I’m married. I can barely deal with the one I have! TWO? Dear gawd man.
Amen… two wives would be twice the punishment. I always thought their up-to-four-wives theology was in large part an explanation for all the Muzzy craziness.
My dad retired a Chief in the USAF, and he had a few stories on the topic of extramarital affairs in the workplace. They are poisonous in so many ways, and they will ruin an otherwise-viable workplace. They must be dealt with, and doing so is always distasteful.
As for the “lady” involved, here, I will observe that most women get approaches from time to time, and American men, with very few unattractive exceptions, know very well how to take “no” for an answer. When one does not know how to take “no,” there will be a trail of incidents.
Sigh. No matter how much it happens, it still keeps happening.
Advice from a well respected CO that I know:
In the Navy there are two surefire ways of being fired. They both involve touching bottom.
Advice from a well respected Master Chief that I know:
Keep yer dick out of the ships muster report!
Any questions?
Classic, pithy SNCO wisdom.
Well, if you can’t keep your pants zipped and your wick dry, this is what happens.
Yep … usually alcohol and/or a woman or a man or both … ah … or somewhere in between the two!
It is so confusing these days keeping track of all the sexes!
You know, people are people. A military rank doesn’t make you impervious to anything. Personal discipline does. E-6, O-6.E-1, CWO-1.
Where men and women are together there are going to be “indiscretions”. I think its the business of the 2 people involved and nobody else, Petraeus included. The military wants to be so involved in peoples personal lives that it seems to do more harm than good. It casts a negative view on the military. If the military would just let two consenting adults make there descision and not broadcast it to everyone, people I think would respect the military more. Because they wouldn’t know all the “bad stuff” that goes on. Pres. Ike and Roosveldt had long time affairs with there staffers or whomever, but the White House Press never said anything. Those two go down as the best POTUS we ever had. But… they were naughty??!!
It’s been said that LBJ had some flings as well, but no one in the media dared to breathe a word about it.
Well, I was in a command where a CWO was running around with a Sergeant. She got a cushy spot in the company office, was always excused from company PT, and “earned” five Navy Achievement Medals in two years. But despite the preferential treatment, and the resentment that her rapid promotions and recognition caused, it shouldn’t matter, because they were two consenting adults.
Yes two consenting adults can have there craziness get away from them and make poor decisions, agreed. But I believe, that with what I have seen, men and women should be allowed to be together if they choose too. Now, as liberal as I am, I must concede that’s its not always in the best interest of the workplace, but, you cant keep men and women for not having feelings for one another. Thank God I broke the Ice and my otherwise “untouchable” woman agreed and married me. The Navy seems to embrace marriage, but dislikes boyfriends and girlsfriends. Well you gotta have one before the other. “Disciprin” is they key here. Lets make like a submarine and go silent, that would be the most prudent thing to do.