Abandoned Shipmate

The Destruction of Coast Guard Captain Ernie Blanchard

Ladson F. Mills (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7545-9 (ISBN)

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Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer. Respected by superiors and subordinates, his personal and professional values seemed perfectly aligned with the institution he served, the United States Coast Guard. By day's end his career was finished.

At a speaking engagement at the Coast Guard Academy, Blanchard's icebreaker--a series of time-tested corny jokes--was met with silence. Within hours, an investigation was underway into whether his remarks constituted sexual harassment. Several weeks later, threatened with a court-martial, he shot himself.

The author investigates Blanchard's "death by political correctness" in the context of the turmoil surrounding the U.S. Armed Forces' gender inclusion struggles from the 1980s to the present.

Retired Navy Reserve Captain Ladson F. Mills, III is a former trustee of the University of the South and Fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is the former president of the American Study Program of Oxford and a regular contributor to Virtueonline and The Covert Letter. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Prologue

I. January 10, 1995

II. Tailhook and Other Scandals

III. Aftermath of Tailhook

IV. Background to the Academy

V. The Formal Investigation Convenes

VI. A Terrible Truth

VII. A Family Abandoned

VIII. Search for Meaning

IX. Sweetbrier

X. Help from Beyond

XI. The Rise of Warrior Women

XII. The Navy Too

XIII. Seeking Justice

XIV. Power Elitism in the Modern Military

XV. Abandoned Shipmate

Afterword

Appendix

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	11 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	245 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-7545-7 / 1476675457
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7545-9 / 9781476675459
Zustand	Neuware