Word: commandant
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...inquiry, the complex character of the 20-year veteran of the Navy was put on full view. Here was a charismatic fast-track officer who was worshipped by the enlisted men but whose headstrong manner rubbed against the more cautious instincts of his senior officers. Waddle exulted in his command and couldn't stop himself from telling civilians the speed and depth his submarine could attain, even though the Navy regards such information as classified...
Several senior officers on the submarine testified that they thought Waddle was going through the emergency-ascent routine too quickly but did not want to challenge him with civilians present in the control room. During the inquiry, Rear Admiral Albert Konetzni, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force, looked over at Waddle in the courtroom and said, "He is like my brother, if not my son. I'd like to go over there and punch him for not taking more time." But Waddle rigorously defended the procedures onboard the Greeneville, denying that he had cut corners on safety...
...Class onboard the downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There is a safety issue here,'" recalls Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. "It's not normal practice to play bumper cars...
...inquiry, the complex character of the 20-year veteran of the Navy was put on full view. Here was a charismatic fast-track officer who was worshipped by the enlisted men but whose headstrong manner rubbed against the more cautious instincts of his senior officers. Waddle exulted in his command and couldn't stop himself from telling civilians the speed and depth his submarine could attain, even though the Navy regards such information as classified...
...kept alive only by a tube that delivers liquid nourishment to his broken body. Severely brain damaged and with his left side paralyzed, he cannot walk, talk, eat or communicate meaningful thoughts, if indeed he still has any. And though he is occasionally able to perform a simple, repeated command like a zombie--tossing a ball or placing a color-coded peg into a hole--he will never again be the husband, the father or the man he once...