astrolite

You saw the website, although you didn't look for an archive to see what it started as, before it was watered down. But you deny it because you want to believe it doesn't exist? You also know what happened in Honduras, and watched Obama's reaction to that, but you deny it, again because you wish it wasn't true..you want to believe Obama wouldn't do such a thing? And with all the preparations for martial law, I would think overwhelming evidence, again you wish it wasn't true, and then You believe it wasn't true. THAT is the proof that liberalism is a mental health disorder!

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

You confuse me again . You say you are proud of being a "chief petty officer" as you are "chief warrant officer.
Both start with 'Chief" but you think its important to 'Correct" me but not your civilian security guard for calling you chief ?
Since your are re-tired from the Navy , I really think you are no longer either 'Chief " .
When I re-tired after 33 + years at a large corporation , I would never refer to myself as Supervisor Big Mac although that was my title!
I respect any and all persons who gives their time and resources and sacrifice to serve in our Military to protect citizens of the U.S.
This forum should be more about what or how and ideas how to fix our problems than bickering back and forth between two people .

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

Pretty much the same , most politicians are Lawyers or have a law background .

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Break down of what they were before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress#Occupational_background

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

Thanks for the link look up . Interesting , for the record slightly less than half are lawyers .

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

But still too many but then one has to look at what type of people would even want to do this crap.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Silence is consent - but not sure what he's consenting to - disgust for using the families or support for using them -

faithistheword

AMEN, BigMac --sometimes it seems like I hacked into someone's Email account!

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I'm not sure if Navy protocol references are available on the internet, but I will do a quick search.

I am almost 100% certain that the only two, protocol-correct salutations to a Navy CWO are "Mister" and "Warrant Officer." Other salutations adopted by specific communities are nothing more than slang...not that there's anything wrong with that; just that you wouldn't use them in official documents or settings. I am just telling you what the official protocol was when I was on active duty as a CWO more than 20 years ago. I made myself certain about it both because I was one, and I needed to know whether a subordinate was addressing me improperly, and because one of my duties on the 4-star staffs on which I served was to make sure my admirals followed proper protocols. There might have been a change in the last 20 years, though, so I'll see what I can find.

Moe

When Bush was in office, he was blamed for everything and anything. Obama gets blamed for nothing! Talk about a one way street, but then Bush did not have the news media on his side.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I didn't mean to start any bickering, and I don't think I did. I meant no rancor with my post. You just seemed to be using "Chief" incorrectly. When I was on active duty, I neither saw nor heard any Navy CWO referred to as "Chief". It was considered improper since Navy E7 chief petty officers are properly addressed as "Chief". I had already been a chief petty officer for several years before getting commissioned and had been properly addressed as "Chief" during all that time. After getting commissioned, I was always referred to as "Mister" or "Warrant Officer" (which properly should have been "Chief Warrant Officer" since the Navy hasn't had WO's for many decades), and protocol manuals at the time directed such. It's what I and other "mustangs" in my commissioning group were taught in our indoctrination class.

Having said that, I just checked around a couple of current Navy websites and found that one of them, though not official, considers "Chief" to be a correct, though casual, form of address for a CWO.

SO I HUMBLY STAND CORRECTED!

In fact, I appreciate this exchange. I have been immersed in an Army environment for the past several years and rarely have a chance to visit my Navy past.

I agree with you wholeheartedly that I, as a retired CWO, should not be addressed by my retired military title except in official military circumstances and documents. That's why I found your addressing me as "Chief" as just mockery since I disagree with your extreme right-wing political views. You have never seen me refer to myself with any military honoraria in any of my posts. Do you object to my using RetNavyCWO as my OPP username?

I work in an environment filled with retired military personnel, including a number of retired Army generals, and nobody around the office refers to them or each other by their rank. It would not be improper to do so, however, since an officer's commission is a lifelong commission, even after retiring from active duty.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I will agree with one thing: some people around here are nucking futz!

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

For most of the years Bush was in office , he didn't have Congress on his side either .