You say that as a joke but I heard a sea story from a CAPT back when I was an ENS that he had been on a port call in C7F once where Leonard’s company secretly hosted a lavish dinner for a number of US and foreign naval officers. The USN officers thought it was merely a foreign partnership event - but when the dozen or so US officers showed up, Leonard’s crew was all over the place, and it didn’t pass the sniff test. Total schmooze trap. The menus also didn’t show any prices. This officer telling us the story left the table discreetly, called the command JAG (who was back at the hotel getting a mani pedi or something), and got advice from the JAG. Then the officer went over to the maitre d’, basically had to politely accost the guy up to obtain a menu that actually showed the prices, went back to the table, had to price out everything served (5 course meal or something), grab debit cards from all the USN officers, make several trips to the ATM, and then went back to the maitre d’ and - so the story goes - shoved the stack of cash into his jacket pocket and stood over the guy until he got an itemized receipt. Dinner goes fine, Leonard’s crew slinks away, the USN officer gives a full report to the JAG and a copy of the receipt the next day, keeps the original receipt, files it away. Fast forward a decade, the scandal breaks, pretty soon he gets a call from NCIS. “Wait one...” digs out the receipt, emails over a PDF, gives the phone number of that female JAG, the end. Never hears two peeps back from NCIS. I am probably butchering the finer details bc obviously I wasn’t there, but that’s generally what I recall.
