{"id":27733,"date":"2011-11-30T15:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27733"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:58:36","slug":"leave-no-man-behind-unless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27733","title":{"rendered":"Leave No Man Behind Unless…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll let our shipmate AW1Tim do the talking from his place.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A disturbing and infuriating situation has arisen.\u00a0 Apparently, under the \u201cleadership\u201d of\u00a0 CDR Renee Richardson, USN \u2013 head of the Department of Defense Prisoner of War\/Missing Personnel, the US Navy has decided NOT to repatriate the bodies of US Navy sailors interred in Tripoli. These men were sailors from USS Intrepid<\/a> who lost their lives in an attack against the Barbary pirates.<\/p>\n

This nation has ample resources to repatriate the remains of these brave sailors to their United States, and see them buried with full military honors. Yet, our own Navy, under the leadership of CDR Richardson, has chosen to abandon their bones to the soil of a foreign land, a land that has, more often than not, been hostile to our nation.<\/p>\n

That this slight to these sailors should take place should not surprise anyone who has seen the demise of tradition and honor under recent CNO\u2019s.\u00a0 Those Navy leaders placed diversity above warfighting, and have chosen to expand their own \u201cdiversity enterprise\u201d at Millington while discharging competent Petty Officers from the fleet to \u201ctrim the budget\u201d.<\/p>\n

This Navy has chosen to also abandon the former USS Olympia, the last surviving warship of the Great White Fleet to it\u2019s likely demise of either being sent to the breakers, or sunk at sea.<\/p>\n

We are throwing good money down the black hole of shipbuilding on such un-needed and inefficient platforms as LCS & DDG-1000, yet we can\u2019t find the funds to bring a few good men home.\u00a0 Big Navy has more admirals per sailor than at any point in our history, more staffs and Make-Work commands than ever before, yet we can\u2019t save USS Olympia, the last of her kind.<\/p>\n

CDR Salamander<\/a> has an excellent piece about this, and I encourage all of you to take a few minutes and read his article. When you\u2019ve finished, call your Congress Critter(s) and give them a piece of your mind regarding this situation.<\/p>\n

The men of USS Intrepid have lain in foreign soil long enough. It\u2019s time to bring them home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll let our shipmate AW1Tim do the talking from his place. A disturbing and infuriating situation … Leave No Man Behind Unless…<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}