US Navy Fires Another Skipper
After an investigation, the Navy recently relieved LCDR Jeremiah Daley of command of the USS Typhoon. The USS Typhoon is a Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship; the Navy maintains 10 ships of this class in the Persian Gulf based at Manama, Bahrain. The USS Typhoon is one of them.
LCDR Daley apparently was relieved for reasons other than the seemingly-standard “loss of confidence”. A lengthy Navy investigation report indicates he was removed from command for “poor performance as a commanding officer and his multiple lapses of personal integrity.” The report indicates he neglected maintenance of shipboard systems to the point of endangering his crew; was observed drunk and disorderly in public; drank in front of his crew; made “suspected false statements” to superiors; and may have attempted to impede an investigatio into his conduct.
Predictably, LCDR Daley is challenging the report, claiming that a “good number of things are 100 percent not true”. Unless he’s got 17 or 18 years of active duty service already, however, I’d guess his time would be best spent these days wordsmithing his resume. I’m thinking he’s going to need it soon.
Fox News has an article giving more details. It’s IMO worthwhile – if somewhat depressing – reading.
Category: Navy
Another turd flushed…
Yeh? maybe not, sounds more like Obozo strikes again!
Do those near the top of the food chain not understand they are constantly under scrutiny? It’s almost beyond the pale that these dimwits don’t get that memo. Well, if he was a turd, and I’m thinking he probably was, good riddance. Let someone be in charge who does the job well and cares about their people. Buttwipe
As GEN Eisenhower said: The further up the flagpole you climb the more of your ass is exposed.
After reading that Fox News article methinks the former Skipper fucketh himself.
Agreed. Dieser Mann gefickt gründlich selbst.
I’m not a navy guy… But what in the hell is going on in the navy ????
Drunk and disorderly in public?
I’d guess he got an itch to be a bosun’s mate, old style.
Dunno about that, Ex-PH2. How many bosun’s mates got caught “sleeping it off” on a public bench in Dubai?
I don’t about Dubai, but I saw a few of them in compromising positions in Olongapo!
Not to mention Singapore or Pattaya Beach
Or at Sanctuary in Yoko…or Andy’s Hut in Guam, or, or, or….
Me too! In the late 60’s you could see just about anything there.
It hadn’t changed much when I was there in the 80’s
Key phrase here is “in Dubai”, folks. With the possible exception of Singapore, all of those other locations are reputedly much more liberal with respect to social mores, as well as more tolerant to the stupid acts of visiting foreigners.
Splash, out. Another one bites the dust. I wonder if he was expecting some “Buddy Mafia” to cover for him?
Part of me still feels this is just a purge in progress. But, feels ain’t facts.
I do not trust the reporting or investigating going on, especially from the USN. That program is about as corrupt as they come.
On the other hand, if all this crap has been actual true fact and the navy has been that heavily infested with degenerate shit in the command ranks, something is most very desperately wrong with the USN promotion system.
One way or another, something is seriously wrong.
The problem isn’t so much with the USN promotion system; it has more to do with how the Navy currently fails to adequately, and thoroughly, screen its officers before putting them in command positions.
Too many toxic martinets and/or officers with questionable integrity are making it through the vetting process.
The Navy has also so far failed to admit that a trend has developed here with all of their recent reliefs of COs for cause.
And the funny thing is that these jackwagons have to pass a command screening. Hell, they go through XO screening too! Makes you wonder what the hell they’re looking at.
And DH screening.
But you and I both know there’s a lot of evaluation inflation, especially if one plays the game, both in the wardroom and goat locker.
Freddie Mercury still says it best…
MCPO Rules About Drinking With Officer(s):
1. Avoid drinking with officer(s), they can’t out-drink the MCPO.
2. If drinking with officer(s), pretend and or permit them to believe they are out-drinking the MCPO.
3. Next day, in private, chew the officer(s) ass out and place size 12 boondocker up the overboard discharge pipe of the offending officer(s) who was drunk and disorderly in the company of a MCPO.
4. If the officer(s) are of and reside in the special case arena, conduct the ass chewing in the company of several and or all Chiefs afloat.
That is all!
The above referenced officer is a young and dumb drunk who got was he deserved. PERIOD.
This ought to be framed and made applicable to all branches. Esp #3. And I was an officer.
Damn, dig that old timey porno ‘stache on Freddy
Given Freddy’s reputed behavior while alive, no great surprise.
The Navy fires more officers than it does guns.
This officer, and others like him, don’t get it. He said “a good number” of those things weren’t true. Hell, if ANY of them were true, he’s an idiot and doesn’t belong in command.
When are these guys going to learn they’re not bulletproof because they’re the CO/XO/CMC.