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Admiral "reassigned"

Wow. Presumably not for tactical reasons, since the IG is getting involved. Bet the COS didn't expect to be commanding the CSG for a few days. From what I hear, Shoemaker (the relief) is a good dude.
 
ABC report quotes a Navy Official as saying it was for "inappropriate leadership judgment". I guess what follows is the ubiquitous "lost confidence in his leadership".

Aside from the Admiral getting canned, I learned that the Stennis battle group was turned around in 4 months. I had heard they went out early, but I didn't know the details. I dare a politician that says ship capabilities trumps the number of hulls to tell that to a few thousand Stennis Strike Group sailors.
 
OscarMyers said:
His biography says he graduated AOCS as a "snowflake". Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I think that was the top two candidates, but I can't remember why they were called that. I'm guessing he was #2 since the top graduate would either be referred to as the RegCom or just, "the top graduate".
 
Harrier Dude said:
I think that was the top two candidates, but I can't remember why they were called that. I'm guessing he was #2 since the top graduate would either be referred to as the RegCom or just, "the top graduate".
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No offense meant here...but I'm surprised that someone at that point in their career would still find that a significant enough achievement for the bio. I was my junior high valedictorian once too...
 
OscarMyers said:
Buddy of mine said its an award you get if you achieve top 10% of tests, PFT and academics.
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That's it. I remember why now. You got a badge (like a name tag) for one of three things; Academic, PT, or Military. You could get more than one (I had two), but if you got all three the badge itself was white with black letters, hence "snowflake".

I can't remember what colors the other ones were, but they weren't white. I think black, but don't know.
 
and they used to wrap tape around the edges of your name tag. I think the snowflakes had white tape. Although I don't really remember the tape coloring scheme.
 
scoober78 said:
No offense meant here...but I'm surprised that someone at that point in their career would still find that a significant enough achievement for the bio. I was my junior high valedictorian once too...
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Concur. It's an odd thing to reference, but nothing wrong with it either. It's pretty hard to do, but I'm guessing he's accomplished a lot more impressive things since then.
 
BigIron said:
and they used to wrap tape around the edges of your name tag. I think the snowflakes had white tape. Although I don't really remember the tape coloring scheme.
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Blue=1st Batt (secured)
Yellow=2nd Batt (secured)
White=CandiO

No tape=unsecured.

This is the kind of crap taking up space on my mental hard drive.
 
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