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Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny

Queeg, as Captain of USS Caine, is a perfect metaphor for The Caine Mutiny’s climactic typhoon, Halsey’s Typhoon. Though Queeg, like Halsey’s Typhoon, may be considered something of an act of God in that the Navy no more gave birth to Queeg than it conjured up the wind and waves that battered Third Fleet (and consigned nearly eight hundred men to watery graves), in both cases it was a series of errors in judgment–a failure to heed warnings of impending disaster–that placed the ships and men of Third Fleet in the path of Halsey’s Typhoon, and the men of USS Caine in the path of Queeg.

Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)

…for some reason, the director of this latest derivative of Herman Wouk’s “The Caine Mutiny” decided to rip the narrative from its critically important historical setting, copy/pasted it into a contemporary setting with only slipshod and superficial changes to dialogue, and filmed what is otherwise a shot-for-shot remake of an earlier–superior–adaptation of Wouk’s work.

Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft

USNA Service Assignment Review Boards I will preface this by noting that my knowledge is dated. As of posting, it has been nearly ten years since I left my job in USNA’s Career Information and Officer Accessions Department (I guess they’re calling it Officer Accessions & Talent Optimization now). It was a small department, consistingContinue reading “Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft”

When We Move On

I was going to write about the Navy, and moving on from the Navy, but then I realized I didn’t care anymore. I guess that means, maybe, I really have moved on. So here are some disjointed thoughts about Ayn Rand and objectivism.