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candidate … would place skin color
and/or gender ahead of professional
OFFICER
“I was
shocked and
qualifications in his misguided,
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unnecessarily lose their lives in bat-
the
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tle because their leaders were chosen
only has
from an “affirmative action” slate of
Navy
less than top-qualified candidates,
283 ships.”
just to avoid having their officers
— Capt. David G. Daniel,
Adm. Gary Roughead, USN,
look like “a bunch of white guys”?
chief of naval operations, has a USN-Ret.
—Maj. Albert Nichols Jr., USAF-Ret.
vision for the Navy’s future 48
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OUT OF MANY, ONE one ship and can only be in services had [leaders like admiral]
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Chapters ease the
out of service, the overall —Maj. George H. Hague Jr., USAR-Ret.
transition to a
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impact on our Navy to ful- Swansea, Mass.
Oct_cover.indd 1 9/8/09 8:30 PM fill its mission is seriously
Ship Shape impacted. it is clear that our elected recognizing USPHS
regarding your interview with representatives in Washington … are in your october 2009 edition …, on
[chief of Naval operations adm. setting our distracted maritime nation page 51, you have a photograph of lt.
Gary roughead, “Shaping the Navy,” up for disaster when, not if, we enter cmdr. yolanda Mitchell-lee and iden-
october 2009], i was shocked and the next global naval conflict or need tify her as being a member of the U.S.
dismayed to learn that our Navy now to project naval power and influence Navy, when in fact [she] is a commis-
only has 283 ships. When i gradu- in force abroad. sioned officer and physician assistant
ated from college in 1968 and en- your interview article with admi- with the U.S. Public Health Service. …
tered the Navy, our country had over ral roughead ended with him say- the USPHS has served as part of
900 ships to meet its global mission. ing, “the key to success of this global the Navy’s ship-based international
During my naval career we were in- Navy is our people.” that has always Humanitarian Missions alongside
formed repeatedly that the appropri- been true, but in the past this “key” our sister services for the past three
ate number of ships we needed to do had a lock to open, and that lock was years. … We greatly appreciate any
our job right was 600 ships. enough ships to sail on and fight upon. and all opportunities to share with
Now i am reading in this inter- —Capt. David G. Daniel, USN-Ret. the other services and the nation
view that our Navy is the smallest via e-mail the important work that the USPHS
U.S. Navy since 1916 — at a time performs in service to our country.
when our global commitments are at you could not have chosen a worse —Lt. Cmdr. Tracy Branch, USPHS
their highest in history. … Billions of military candidate to feature on via e-mail
dollars are being spent, mortgaging your cover and in the ensuing ar-
our country’s future under the ban- ticle, “Shaping the Navy.” [admiral Health care reform
ner of “economic stimulus,” and we roughead’s] inclusion is an insult to i applaud Moaa’s efforts to protect
can only afford 283 ships? all military men who have served in our health care options as congress
admiral roughead stated it cor- the past and who always strived to be goes forward with the many reform
rectly when he said, “No matter how and to require the best possible per- plans under consideration. While
sophisticated a ship may be, it is still formance of our military units. your there are many reasons to oppose
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