Wish they’d bring back keelhauling

I guess we need more info.

Or he may have had an 'Admiral's Mast'. There are administrative means short of courts-martial.

“Appointed” to that. Even a captain’s mast would have gotten at least a sentence in some newspaper like the navy times at least.

According to the link:

"Military guidelines allow a provisional retirement rank if an officer is under investigation for misconduct at the time, as Jackson was during his departure from the Navy. Military officials have the option to downgrade the final rank if adverse findings are made, busting down an officer to the last grade they satisfactorily served."

This is different from frocking and a regular provisional rank. Frocking is a higher rank given with the expectation that the officer will attain that rank in a short time period.

A provisional rank is a temporary rank used for the billet or job the officer is holding. Like if the Captain of a ship dies, the XO will be given a provisional rank of Captain until a replacement can be found.

It sounds like this is a special case used for retiring officers.

As a Naval Officer, I was always told that I served at the pleasure of the president. Maybe Biden was not pleased.

But the Stinking Nazi sure loved all those free flowing drugs for everyone in the white house. I wonder if Trump and his staff were having orgies with underaged girls in the white House too.

And the Senate confirmed. I don't see any evidence of provisional.

https://www.congress.gov/nomination/114th-congress/1465

"Military guidelines allow a provisional retirement rank if an officer is under investigation for misconduct at the time, as Jackson was during his departure from the Navy. Military officials have the option to downgrade the final rank if adverse findings are made, busting down an officer to the last grade they satisfactorily served."

The simple answer is that downgrade to lower rank due to adverse findings is based on being investigated at retirement date, not date the rank was appointed. It does not matter when he got the appointment. It matters if he was being investigated at the time of retirement.

He did not complete Rear Admiral successfully because of adverse findings of an investigation started before his retirement date as a Rear Admiral.

That's to keep officers who have a lot of power from doing corrupt acts then escaping investigation or reprimands by submitting retirement requests.

"Hey captain, ........."

Memories of Laguna Beach.

Those two are a couple of my fave songs. Captain and Tenille not so much.

They love American easy listening.

In Europe, they'll tell you: "It's the gentle, creative side of America we wish we saw more of."

In Latin America, they'll say: "It's the sound of what we wish we were more like ourselves."

(and in Asia, they say: "Karaoke!!" )

If they knew most kids these days, and for some time now, have mostly been into rap and metal.

Sugar can be so addictive

Presumably Lindsey's favorite.

I didn’t get a “secret” divorce 45 years ago, but we were new in town & I didn’t want to discuss it. Imagine my chagrin when it showed up in the local paper under Vital Statistics, aka Births, Marriages, and Deaths. And some busybody at my ex’s business asked him about it.

That’s how I look at the difference.

And I expect they didn't bother digging for it until now when the "pill mill" stories started up (although unsubstantiated Hunter Biden stories were fair game for reporting and speculating about).

and I hope someone goes after him for continuing to call himself "rear admiral"

in the sense that his time as an admiral is in the rear view mirror.

half-assed

Most Americans probably don’t know know or care. Folks in his district might, though.

AND he’ll be “up for review” in November.

they won't care. It includes the county where the Koch brothers' grandfather ran a newspaper. It has a Cook Partisan rating of 26. It was the district which had the lowest vote for Obama in 2008 and second lowest for Hillary. If voters there hear about Jackson's demotion they will dismiss it as political first, and then just ignore the facts if they are pressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index

I will also start looking at labels more closely. If it’s made in Texas, I won’t be buying it.

edit for spelling

😎

Be well.

Heard a variation on the Stephanie Miller Show. 😄

Ballsy of the Navy to demote someone who has budgetary authority over them.

they should drag him in front of a military court again and nail him for stolen Valor or impersonating a flag officer. There must rules against that.

For services rendered

Maybe 5 or 6 years ago, we already knew what a pill-pushing quack that guy was. On top of that, he lied on Chump's annual health check-ups at the White House. There were rumors about him even back in 2018 ... the media just ignored it I guess.

This guy is claiming a rank which he doesn't hold. Sounds like exactly what they were always up in arms about. Oh, but he is one of them so it is no biggie.

Or when you claim a high medal that you never earned. Jackson was an Admiral. He was promoted to that position by Obama. I don't know if he still claims to be an Admiral but if he does he should not be doing it. But it is not stolen valor.

pedantic in that manner. Any opportunity to use a hot button catch phrase is seized, so long as it is a political opponent rather than a fellow RWNJ.

The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 makes it illegal to claim a military rank that someone didn't or doesn't have.

https://www.jordanucmjlaw.com/2023/01/what-is-stolen-valor-and-is-it-a-crime/

"claim a military rank that someone didn't have" He DID have the rank. Please read your posts before hitting the "Post" button.

He doesn't have the rank anymore.

Yet he's still claiming it.

Try keeping up before posting yourself.

strip him of his privilege to practice medicine?

...so deep are many in the cult

I'll put that on the long list of things that must be undone as soon as possible.

Started this list in the late 60's and have checked off very few items even as several of those have had to be relisted. It's like history is a one-off original until it's forgotten or reinterpreted. Then it sneaks out to repeat itself. That's where the generational value and reality of death makes itself unobviously, perhaps even perversely, useful. Propelling the species onward through the ages in clouds of star dust and mold.

That traitor Michael Flynn.

Not one court martial nor demotion.

NT