Saturday, July 25, 2009
ABOVE IS AN IMAGE OF A GENUINELY USELESS BEING WHO SKATED THROUGH LIFE MANAGING TO DODGE REAL WORK. HE ALSO MANAGED TO STEP TO THE FRONT OF EVERY LINE IN TIME TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COMPANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DID THE WORK HE CLAIMED TO HAVE DONE. (Pretending to be an officers and squandering hours on a decommissioned aircraft carrier is not the same as doing work on the decommissioned aircraft carrier.) (Maybe he needed a reason to get away from his wife.)
In this photo, he may be dreaming of the time he got his wife trained as a docent and then flown on a US NAVY aircraft to an offshore aircraft carrier for an overnight stay at TAXPAYER EXPENSE. It was a great adventure for her and may have been a good way to justify his time away from home, but................
His wife was a waste of a docent training slot.
She never served for one minute as a docent, but she got a "perk" that NO genuine, hardworking docent ever got.......and this loafer arranged that insult to REAL Docents.
He was never an officer, but he wanted people to think that he "could have been an officer". If he "could have been", why wasn't he? He left the Navy to become a school teacher.
"PEOPLE WHO CAN - DO"
"PEOPLE WHO CAN'T - TEACH"
A "wannabe" with an attitude shaped by years of of being dismissed as "irrelevant" by students when he was a teacher, he thought he had found a place on U.S.S. Midway where he could finally be "important".
He thought he had finally "made the grade". He probably still thinks he is a senior officer but knows that he is not, and never was, and never will be - an officer.
His hours and energies aboard Midway were dedicated to trying magnify his "importance". He waged personal, vindictive wars against Docents who had better ideas than his and made the mistake of speaking up. He fired Docents who had better ideas, and then claimed the ideas as his own.
HE FIRED DOCENTS WHO HAD DIED.
HE SIMPLY DID NOT CARE ENOUGH ABOUT DOCENTS TO ASK ABOUT THEM WHEN THEIR PROLONGED ABSENCE FROM DOCENT SERVICE WAS BROUGHT TO HIS ATTENTION.
HE THREATENED TO FIRE OTHER DOCENTS WHO WERE UNABLE TO STAND WATCHES BECAUSE THEY HAD DIED OR WERE HOSPITALIZED.
HE SUSPENDED OR THREATENED DOCENTS WHOSE WIVES WERE SICK AND NEEDED EXTRA CARE.
HE SUSPENDED OR THREATENED TO FIRE DOCENTS WHOSE WIVES HAD DIED.
HE DIDN'T CARE ENOUGH ABOUT DOCENTS TO ASK IF THERE WERE PROBLEMS OR SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN THEIR LIVES THAT PREVENTED THEM FROM VOLUNTEERING.
HE SIMPLY ELIMINATED THEM.
HE FIRED DOCENTS WHO HAD SERVED AS AVIATORS WHO HAD VOLUNTEERED TO GIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF FLYING OFF A CARRIER AND LANDING ON A CARRIER.
IN WRITTEN MEMOS TO ALL DOCENTS POSTED ON A PREVIOUS INTERNET SCHEDULING SITE, HE PUBLICLY BELITTLED AND BERATED THOSE FORMER AVIATORS AS "GLORY BOYS" AND "HOT SHOTS" AND SAID THAT THEY WERE TO SERVE BELOW DECKS IN AREAS IN WHICH THEY HAD NO DUTY EXPERIENCE.
THEN..........
IN AN ACT OF SELF CONTRADICTION, HE ACTIVELY SOUGHT MEN WHO HAD WORKED IN THE GALLEY SO THEY COULD PROVIDE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF SERVING CHOW.
HE ALSO SOUGHT MEN WHO HAD SERVED IN THE ENGINE ROOMS, PRI-FLY, AND THE FO'C'SL SO THEY COULD IMPART INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR AREAS OF SERVICE.
HE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT MIDWAY DOCENTS GIVE THEIR TIME FREELY AND ARE HAPPY TO DO SO. HE BELIEVED THAT MIDWAY DOCENTS WERE ENLISTED MEN WHO WERE THERE TO SERVE HIM AND HIS EGO.
I KNOW OF ONLY ONE DOCENT WHO WAS RIGHTFULLY DISMISSED BY THE DOCENT COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC MISCONDUCT, UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR, AND PUBLIC MISREPRESENTATIONS HE MADE AT PRIVATE PARTIES HELD ABOARD MIDWAY.
"ONLY STALIN HAS FIRED MORE VOLUNTEERS AND LOYAL WORKERS"
He never cared enough about people to find out why some Docents "disappeared".
He simply "fired" the dead and the disabled.
HE GAVE HIS WIFE A LANDING AND NIGHT ABOARD A CARRIER AT SEA IN SPITE OF HER NEVER HAVING SERVED AS A DOCENT. (Meanwhile, hundreds of docents have served thousands of volunteer time and have never gotten anything but a "form letter" if they were lucky, or berated and fired if he decided to steal their ideas.
He gave himself awards and personally claimed honors for the accomplishment of REAL docents. He made agreements he never intended to honor.
MIDWAY continues to be a resounding success because of the selfless work of hundreds of genuine volunteer docents who have never enjoyed the perks this person's wife enjoyed. An apology for his behavior should be given by San Diego Aircraft Museum / U.S.S. Midway to ALL past and present Docents.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
"An interested group of visitors learns how carrier planes are launched"
"Despite the weather, these people want to know how
the Navy can land a jet travelling at 120 miles per hour
on a runway which is moving forward as well as up and down!"
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
You can see the silhouettes of the sailors on the flight deck as they get a last look at home port for a few months.(Click on photos to enlarge them)
Try to imagine yourself lining up to land on the ship's angle deck at 120 - 140 knots!
USS Ronald Reagan at left is moving past USS Nimitz at right. USS Midway, a decomissioned aircraft carrier which is now a museum, can only bear silent witness and "remember" her glory days of putting out to sea.
Moving past USS Nimitz, USS Reagan is about to make a slow turn to port to put her in the San Diego shipping channel.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
U.S.S. Peleliu comes into port, followed by Dawn Princess, and under the ever watchful eye of a chopper over head. (Stern of U.S.S. Nimitz is visible to the left)
Jim was an aviator AND a surface Captain! (Note the Harrier's refueling probe)
Navy security chases this little boat away from its apparent course which would have placed it between Peleliu and a passing Los Angeles class submarine
CH 46 beginning to sidle over to Peleliu - Note the crew member leaning out of the forward hatch....he'll stay there until it lands!
Looks like a Docent went aft on the LCAC to inspect Peleliu's stern gate and the large fan nacelle
