Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Yeah, Like Nobody Saw That Coming

The CO of the USS Enterprise has been fired.

The officers who were commanding the Enterprise and who commanded the strike group also may be in a bit of hot water, even though they reportedly ordered him to knock that shit off.

I don't get what he was doing. I served under a number of XOs and they all understood that their role was to be the ship's disciplinarian, the officer who made sure that everyone else toed the line and to pour lava-like scorn and abuse on those who didn't measure up. None of them acted like comedians or "good-time Charlies" while on the ships. The only one I know of who displayed a sense of humor limited that to closed door meetings with the CO and the department heads.

3 comments:

Nangleator said...

Five years. Republican Senator. Family values.

Fixer said...

Same in the AF. As an enlisted man, if the First Sergeant didn't put the fear of God into you, you got sent to the XO to get bored 60-over. In SOCOM, the CO was looser than the XO at squadron parties. When I went to SAC, everybody was a tight-ass.

Nangleator said...

As I said on another blog, you let this go unpunished, and there's no telling how future captains of the Enterprise might start acting up. All sorts of entanglements with foreign women, disregarding his directives: tertiary, secondary... even prime ones. He'd need some sort of cool, logical XO to keep his feet on the ground.