Navy CO Loses Her Command

[Njaco]

I've been racking my braincell all day trying to remember the name of that movie....I'm pretty sure I've seen it (same one where he sends the ship in a circle while reaming out a sailor with an untucked shirt, and cuts the tow-cable for the divebomb target?), but can't for the life of me remember the name! ITS DRIVING ME FRIKKIN NUTS!!!




ETA: Sweet release! Checked Bogy on IMDB, its "The Caine Mutiny"!!! I'll be able to sleep tonight!

Thats why the "strawberries" reference earlier.

[timshatz]

It reminds me of a story a neighbor told me when he was an LST sailor in WW2. The captain was such an ******* to his officers and crew that some marines they were transporting from Okinawa offered to shoot him. And he said they were serious.

If anyone would whack somebody and throw them over the side, it'd be a bunch of Marines fresh off Okinawa. After all the dead they've seen, what's one more. Especially if they are an *******.

[renrich]

It is no mystery why she got command. You can bet that politics dictates that a certain number of women are going to get commands and you can also bet that the decision about who gets the command is not only based on qualification.

I understand now that women are now going to serve on submarines.

[ToughOmbre]

It is no mystery why she got command. You can bet that politics dictates that a certain number of women are going to get commands and you can also bet that the decision about who gets the command is not only based on qualification.

Bingo!

TO

[Demetrious]

I'm not trying to support her, but do you have evidence this occurred? That's pretty damning.

Kind of. I can't seem to find the original page where a sailor who served under her spelled out what happened in that harbor, but you can kind of piece it together from official sources like this (the Times article that's all over

"Someone came up to me and said, 'We've run aground - she's finished,' " he recalls. "I was flabbergasted. They were jumping for joy and singing on the fantail." As it turned out, one of the ship's propellers had broken. But seven years later, Kaprow still cannot fathom which was worse: that U.S. sailors were openly heckling a captain or that the captain seemed to deserve it. (See the top 10 scandals of 2009.)

So the prop did break. I doubt you can do that simply by ordering 25 knots in rough water. Now former crew the internet over claim it's because she ordered high speed and drag-raced the props into the muck, leading to that damage, but the official navy report (The Admiralty & Maritime Law Blog: Navy Inspector General's Report on Holly Graf: Part 1) only says they were "transitioning shoal water," whatever that means.

Unless I can find that one page again, sure, the exact way the prop was broken is hearsay, but I was under the impression that props do not simply bust off on their own.

[timshatz]

"transitioning shoal water," .

Means they were crossing or in shallow water. Navy terminology for the keel being close to the much/sand/rocks on the bottom of the sea.