Hondo sends us a link to Military.com which reports that Navy Commander Tammy Sue Royal was fired from her job as the commander of USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49);
Rear Adm. Cedric Pringle, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, relieved Cmdr. Tammy Sue Royal, 48, after superiors lost confidence in her ability to effectively lead sailors and carry out her duties, according to Naval Surface Warfare spokesman Doug Sayers.
In a telephone interview, Sayers said that “sustained poor performance” during an era when “readiness is a focal point for the Navy” were keys to Pringle’s decision.
She is the fourth senior officer from San Diego-based amphibious warships to be relieved of duty over the past year.
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68 responses to “Cmdr. Tammy Sue Royal canned”
Perhaps she ordered a young subordinate to dip in her inkwell?
A female subordinate?
Maybe.
Just a likely she was caught beating her wife like the USMC Helo pilot a couple years back.
She has a wife?
More likely poor navigational skills and not adept at being in charge of anything more important than running the copier.
Why assume it’s malfeasance when it may instead simply be ‘not very good at meeting the requirements of her job’???
I think so. Obama’s Navy was so intent on promoting diversity that they put someone on charge who wasn’t ready so they could virtue signal how awesome they were
You ma’am, get a gigantic gold star with Hit Hammer Nail Head Assembly Required emblazoned across it.
The “Peter Principle” in action. She might have been raised to her highest level of incompetence.
You, sir, have not used an office copier lately!!!
That’s Ma’am to you, Dan, and I used one two days ago, both print docs from a jump drive and copy two-sided docs as two-sided copies.
I also cook.
Any questions???
you have a photocopier? What do those look like these days?
They took out the copiers last year when they “upgraded” us to printers manufactured in 2004…
🙂
I served under her. She Took command when the ship went into the yards, so she never got underway with the Harpers Ferry. After spending five years on board that ship and going through to your periods, I can tell you that the ship was in bad need of a lot of work that did not get taken care of from the previous commanding officers which means that those issues were just kicked down the road and happen to fall in her lap. So, don’t believe everything that you read about poor performance and somebody getting fired. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of somebody having to be the one to take the blame and that is very unfortunate.
Looks like the Pacific Fleet is finally starting to enforce some accountability. Too bad it took 17 dead sailors to get to this point.
Hide yo commands, hide yo ships, they all getting canned up in here.
What is this lost confidence in her ability to lead and carry out her duties? Was she turning the Harpers Ferry inside out looking for a quart of missing strawberries? Man, Pringle is whacking people. She’s #4 in 12 months? There must be some very nervous people in his group.
Lot of Obama-era promotees…. not that there may be a correlation
No correlation whatsoever.
It is amazing how much you think that you know, when in fact, you do not know me.
You’re right. There were strawberries missing. And there was a duplicate key to the food locker, but she didn’t have it.
She does kinda look like a blonde Bogart…
https://youtu.be/-95QqBXLG2I?t=56
I’d hit it.
Did you? Is that what this is all about?
Kinda Rachel MacAdams girl-next-door looks. Bet she cleans up well.
You must be legally blind.
If that ox looks like Rachel McAdams then….
I got nothing.
Might have juxtaposed McAdams with Maddow.
She looks rather mannish to me, if you must know. But that’s her business, not mine.
And really, IDC_SARC would hit a concrete block if he was desperate, because the concrete block has holes in it. 🙂
Thank you Ex-PH2. Mannish is putting it, well, gently if you will.
Sparks. I find her attractive.
Cripes. Does this mean I’m gay?
I’m out of strawberries, Sparks.
And I do not have a duplicate key to the ward room or the food lockers.
I am sad.
” the concrete block has holes in it”
Two, to be precise. Both square.
A case of round peg in square hole?
Ex-PH3 for the win.
😎
Ex-PH2, Bill.
The number is 2!
And Number 1 in the hearts of all miscreant dickweeds here at TAH!!
Love you, too, Claw.
Me too but then I am getting old and grey.
Face down over the starboard ammo locker; maybe.
Lots of folks getting canned lately.
The tin can factory is running out of supplies.
Pringle’s chips are down.
Seems Pringle has high standards, and expects his senior officers to live up to them. Or find employment elsewhere.
Now that I read the story, I have to go out and buy a tube of Pringle potato chips.
I love those things. Bring on the salt and fat!
It seems the Pacific Fleet is cleaning up the 8 years of of social justice.
I just want to know if she ran over and cut a towline pulling a target ship into place.
The strawberries were only part of the problem.
And marked shore CPA with a yellow sea dye marker.
I wonder if she had any ball bearings in her pockets….
Those were Ben Wa balls.
Dude…
Did *not* want that image.
You haven’t seen “The Caine Mutiny”, have you, Gump?
Ball bearings in her pockets, well shades of Nr. Roberts.
Check Herman Wouks’ excellent book “Caine Mutiny,” or the movie starring Humphrey Bogart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny
One of Bogart’s best ever.
I may be reading between the lines too much, but it’s sounding to me like she had a bit of a problem passing INSURV.
That’ll kill a career as fast as anything.
What is INSURV? Inquiring non-Navy minds want to know. The closest to the sea going Navy I ever got was a ride on an LCM with my team and our RB-7 at Little Creek for Marine Amphib Recon School.
General inspection and survey.
That’s a new term to me, but I’d assume it has to do with readiness of the crew and the ship, among other things.
Wikipedia says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Inspection_and_Survey
From the article, it looks similar to either a COMET or IG Inspection (Army) or old SAC ORI.
Failing a SAC ORI was a sure fire way to end a career for the Wing Commander and the Deputy Commander of Operations or Maintenance (depending on which area screwed up). Even Squadron Commanders weren’t immune. Went trough a lot of them back in the day, both on the receiving and giving end.
Back in my day the biggy was the AGI, Annual General Inspection.
Pretty much as explained, although mainly on surface and squadrons. Back on the boat, we had ORSE (Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination) and TRE (Tactical Readiness Examination) and the boomer pukes also have NTPI.
Failure of or even consistently below average performance of any of these is severely career limiting, and brings many people to “help” the deficient crews in preparation for their upcoming inspections.
And a shitty time would be had by all.
Reminds me of Operational Readiness Evaluations (ORE) the Wing would inflict on a squadron just before deployment. Never really saw the point. What would happen if it failed- not go?
Riiiight.
Obvious question: Why an ORE just before deployment instead of during training exercises?
Is it the surprise factor, or are the inspectors just inefficient?
Back in my day (2008), I asked a hard charging twice command (DDG/CG) O-6 SWO peer If flunking an INSURV was a bad thing…he said NO…was it great for the CO, no, but there were so many variables outside the COs reasonable responsibility that it just didn’t matter…what the CO did with his operational vessel was entirely different…take that for what it is worth
Then I guess there really are different standards for surface versus subs.
And I don’t believe there should be.
Good.
What a small word. The float I did was on this ship.
Hey, with adults now in charge, not even the EO Quotas are safe!
I guess she will be alright. Prior enlisted with 27 years of service should max her out on the O5 scale looking at 68% of that or so. Figure 75K a year in retirement. She won’t starve.
Gotta wonder why with so many years she took command? Most O5s with that many years will step off rather than put themselves through the wringer.