Drunkenness, sexual advances derail 1-star

[unhappycamper]

Rear Adm. Charles Goddard


Drunkenness, sexual advances derail 1-star
By Philip Ewing - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 22, 2008 6:36:36 EDT

After a margarita at the bar and two shots of tequila, Rear Adm. Charles H. “Chuck” Goddard was having trouble keeping his hands to himself.

Goddard, then the Navy’s program executive officer for ships, was drinking in San Diego in February with two longtime friends, both men, and a woman who worked for him at Naval Sea Systems Command. They were celebrating the day’s christening of the Military Sealift Command cargo ship Robert E. Peary.

The admiral, who is married, had been putting his arm around the woman and brushing against her legs, she later told Navy investigators. She tried to overlook it, telling herself there was no way to stand up to her boss without making a scene, and that she should just “take one for the team.”

But a little later, as the four of them sat around a table eating dinner, “she felt an unmistakable warm, socked foot pushed between legs with the toes making an effort to push forward further. immediately reached down with left hand, grabbed the foot, realized the direction from which it was coming, and looked up to see RDML Goddard wink at (her), giving her a wide smile.”

According to a report by the Navy Inspector General, the admiral’s overtures were part of a whole evening of alcohol-fueled sexual advances, the latest such night in a string of them during official trips around the country. The report — obtained Sept. 11 by Navy Times though a Freedom of Information Act request — describes a flag officer who drank so much and made so many unwelcome advances toward women that his subordinates had to step in to divert him from women. At one point, they resorted to “standing guard” to make sure he didn’t leave his hotel room after he had gone to bed drunk.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/09/navy_goddard_092108w/%2e

[Lerkfish]

1. but...but...I was DRUNK! honest!

jeez. I've never made unwanted advanceds against a woman while drunk. Does that make me a superman? apparently so.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. "America's Finest" - hmmm - wonder why the global image is so bad?

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Treating their own citizens like this,

makes me fear what they do with the women of the country they occupy.

"USA nomba one"

right.