A wise latina.

That old tug is still floating? We use to land on it from time to time back in the very early 70’s.

During Frequent Winds, they would let the AVRN helicopters land and off load their passengers while holding a gun to the head of the pilot making him take off to ditch his aircraft at sea. We would then pull the pilot out of the drink if he survived.  The helicopter deck was small and only helicopter could land at a time.

I was in the same unit with her about 12 years ago and turned duties over with her in Afghanistan. She was toxic then and only cared about herself but I have to admit even this level of dumbassery surprised me. Sailors will always find out if the Mess is fucking up and will be quick to report it. Super dumb to think she could just keep this quiet and that’s not even to mention how dumb it is to risk your career and the security of your ship and crew. As the SEA taking care of the crew is top priority

Blue Ridge is 7th Fleet Flagship.  Port to port in 7th fleet continually wherever the Admiral wants to party.

I can't imagine the depth of stupidity it took to do this.

Josh,

Do most Chiefs already have their 20 in ???? Can they just retire? I know my friend bailed as a chief with 20 years and a day but I don't know how common it is.

A complete lack of integrity and accountability that I’m not surprised about

I’m a bit too “new navy” for that line of thinking. But agreed on the lack of integrity.

I see that and think....

Commandant Marine Corps

I was a Chief and rolled out at 20, picked it up at 14 years in.  Has far enough of the bs. Most Chiefs are at between 15 to  20 and a lot 20+ but the Navy has been promoting earlier and earlier in the last 20 or so years. Not uncommon to see someone make Chief at 8-10 years and some even earlier

No.  Depends on how many quotas v. elegibles there are.  I started seeing Chiefs with less than 7 years(!) in towards the end of my career.  I made Chief in just under 11 years and was a red striper until 12 years, which was fairly rare at the time.

Early Chief selection is a very difficult position to be in, especially when telling your former E6 peer with 18 years in why he didn't get selected.

This is way bigger conspiracy, deeply involved multiple people covering up after getting caught multiple times

“The deep level of manipulation is only overshadowed by the level of corrupt dealings in which CMC Marrero used to conceal the system,” the investigation found.

Marrero seized a comment placed in the CO’s suggestion box regarding the Wi-Fi network so that it wouldn’t end up in COs hands. She then got the CO to tell the crew that the network didn't exist.

While those interviewed claimed Marrero misled the chiefs mess into thinking Moore, the CO, knew about the Wi-Fi system and had signed off on it.

Marrero set up payment plans for the chief’s mess to pay for the system — either $62.50 a month or a one-time fee of $375 — that the ship’s Chief Petty Officer Association treasurer collected into a chiefs mess checking account.
Those involved also used the Chief Petty Officer Association’s debit card to pay off the $1,000 monthly Starlink bill, and Marrero warned the chiefs to only use the network in their rooms.

After Manchester got underway from San Diego, Marrero and the chiefs soon realized the Wi-Fi signal didn’t cover all areas of the ship, so the senior chief purchased signal repeaters and cable at the Navy Exchange store in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during a port visit

An unidentified chief also volunteered to take responsibility for the network.

The next day, an unidentified chief provided Moore with false statements regarding the installation of the dish, and who was responsible.

It’s unclear due to redactions if the chief was referring to themselves, or another chief. The chief also told Moore that they only used the connection while in port.

Moore remained skeptical, however, and told Marrero later she didn’t believe that.

To bolster their lie that the Wi-Fi was only used in port, Marrero and another chief altered Starlink data usage charts from the service’s website to make it look like the chiefs mess only used the Wi-Fi network in port.

Marrero then shared these fabricated charts with Moore, but Moore “did not trust the data usage charts as they appeared to be poorly doctored,” investigators wrote.

Marrero finally confessed and apologized to Moore on Aug. 26, copping to the fact that she deceived her CO throughout the entirety of the deployment.


https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/

When I was a e5, our chiefs mess decided to stream a college football game while underway and used up all of our allotted bandwidth and got the internet shut off. And then they had the balls to yell at the crew at muster on the flight deck about how WE had sent to many emails and clicked too many websites. Funny thing, the chiefs mess has mess cooks and mess cooks have eyes, ears, and love to talk. So we all knew it was their fault. I was amazed by THAT stupidity. Rigging an entire surface combatant for an unauthorized electronic emissions isn’t just criminal, it’s suicidal.

Some day I'll post up some of the crazy Terminal Lance shit I did at MCAS El Toro.  None of it compares to that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First one....I used the airplane paint booth on a Saturday/Sunday and painted my Mustang a couple of months before I got out. I won't admit to where I ordered the paint from....

When I did my last tour of mess duty, I stole everything the Chef couldn't get to make kick ass cakes and cookies. It was an operation. Nobody but him and I knew about it and I swore him to secrecy.

Christ as a retired Chief that shit is wrong at every level. And like you said the crew is not dumb and will know shit before anyone else. To think they could just blame the crew is absolutely fucked up.

Sorry this happened to you.  Being able to communicate with family while deployed is much more important that a fucking college game.

Had I been CMC there I would not have allowed that to happen at the expense of the crew's morale.

Associates of mine were with her around the same time frame and were not impressed by her either

Diversity hire, she needed the Big Chicken Dinner  for that disgrace

Oh, but we're so far ahead of China it won't matter

It’s all lessons in leadership. Bad leadership, but still a lesson

I made Chief at 9 years.

The continuation board only affects Chiefs at 20 iirc, they do get to retire. But a Chief found guilty of misconduct can also be detached for cause which automatically convenes an adsep board, or simply processed for separation.

That's actually astounding.

I don't have a surface warfare background, but I sure have an RF background and how they thought that was acceptable blows my mind.

Competency Crisis is here.

What a stupid ass and apparently the Navy does not look for spurious signals (ELINT etc) on their own ships while underway. Interesting spy opportunities for China.

The difference is the crew that secretly did it bypassed the supply chain where a 3rd party provides the same thing for a 10x price increase.

We had starlink WIFI on my deployment in 2023-2024 but the navy is squashing it and we cant use starlink for WIFI anymore. Granted, it was almost never turned on anyways, but we still have fast starlink internet on the ship computers.

Yet,

there is on this thread that is covering for it.

Yikes, this is pretty bad.  What a gross violation of OPSEC.

How else is she going to post her pics and vids on Instagram and Tik Tok?

I agree with @thesquidliest   The welllbeing of the crew should have been first priority, not a ballgame.

@KELBEAST   You are right, I learned a lot from a couple of bad leaders during my time.

She needs to be kicked out of the navy.

Women don't belong in the armed forces,you can not make any sense  to them,try with the wife!

I was at C2F with a QMCM that had red stripes. No idea what he did all day besides hang out in the smoking area. I'd see him at CPOA meetings but never interacted with him. Always just figured he'd gotten into some bad business somewhere along the way and was just riding out his contract.

That's not why he was relieved of command. She lost one rank and will likely be out of the Navy soon.

You know why too bro.

It was a contributing factor.

This is a Security Risk for this ship, right?

Exactly.  Diversity is our strength!

Whoa.  Look up Bluetooth sniping sometime…

The bust down one grade is largely inconsequential, it looks like just a slap for sheer stupidity as opposed to a full-up bust for a hard criminal act. I don't know Navy policy, but in general I'd bet good money she's done and will be pushed into retirement as an E-7.

Won't be surprised if she has company off that boat, too. Lack of judgment at that level should be grounds for clearing the entire group of complicit SNCOs.

Don't worry, it shares the same position on the EMS as exactly what the enemy is looking for.

30 years at hard labor in Kansas and a nice little interrogation to kick it all off with.

'If you wanted to be one of the boys you're in the wrong place now."

Coming in the door.

I bet she’s a raging cubt in person.

so a senior noncom put an anti-ship missile homing beacon on the ship, and the rest of the senior noncoms just went along with it?

That tubby 3 check-marked diversity box having dumbass needs a Big Chicken Dinner. Any white male at E6 or below would have had the book thrown at them I bet.

Ha!  So they ripped off those gold service strips...