This is unbelievable.
In a slap at the fading and officially out-of-favor tradition of racy, sarcastic and irreverent aviation call signs, a just-retired Navy fighter squadron commanding officer was censured by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Wednesday for failing to halt and subsequently condoning the hazing of a junior officer at a 2009 call sign review board where assembled officers voted to call the officer “Romo’s Bitch,” the Navy announced late Friday.
The “shoeification” of Naval Aviation continues.
Unfair comparison!
The shoes at a senior level are relatively sane. The airedales begin to lose their spine once they put on stars. You can actually trust the oak leaves, but once they start to aspire to things higher than Captain, the shoeification truly commences.
How sad that we have actually started to envy the shoes and bubbleheads.
Na Skippy,
It was the utterly unforgivable bad taste, clueless abuse and take no prisoners, blow off the law approach of the brown shoes that started the process of eating tailhook’s lunch. You guys did it all to yourselves, all by yourselves.
What exactly about the press, the main stream press, made you think that you were all exempt from negative coverage? Nobody briefed you before oDS or ODS? Nobody suggested that you put your best foot forward (no, not to trip the girls and jump them) but to woo the press and the nation? Jeez, you utter losers converted the Turkey Shoot into an unmitigated PR disaster all by yourselves.
The issue at Tailhook is not that we took a few liberties with our female party guests-we did. 😉
I went to five Tailhooks before THE Tailhook. It was all just harmless fun-and if you were ever on the third floor and seen the number of sales professionals on the floor helping great Americans blow off a little steam……well better to have been a part of that than to be at SNA.
Yeah but you guys lost your SA and counted on everything remaining the same even if you did bring chicks to the affair. Female Navy Officers have a .00024 sense of humor. Rule number 1 in full effect when you brought them along. Rule 3 and 4 violated at the same time. Rule 2, it only takes one stupid damned motherfuckin bitch to rat out everyone and if she’s pissed she’ll go all the way past mom and head to the courts. I know there’s guys out there that keep saying, “I told you stupid bastards not to make it public but no, you wouldn’t listen to me!” Probably a former shoe…loser.
Got away with it since nobody was charged. You know, except for all the guys that suddenly had their careers destroyed merely for attending. No harm, no foul, no MAST, no court martial. Just over.
There was one court martial-which fell apart becaus the prosecution had a very poor case-and as it turned out Paula Coughlin was the biggest whore since Delila.