According to the Navy, Renegade astronauts are better than homosexual GIs.
After a daylong hearing on Thursday, a Navy panel has finally suggested that Lisa Nowak should have her flying wings clipped. Her discharge comes in response to the time she famously drove from Texas to Florida in a pair of diapers and maced another astronaut over a love interest in 2007. However, if Nowak’s crush were a woman and not a man, this space cadet would be long gone by now.
Under “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” servicemen who come out of the closet cannot continue to play a role in the military.
But what happens when heterosexual affairs go wrong? Apparently, with Nowak as an example, it’s a whole other ballgame.
Everyone remembers Nowak’s antics, when she drove overnight from Houston to Orlando and confronted her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman. Wanting reprisal for cutting in on her crush, former space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, Novak took off with a full disguise, diapers to expedite the trip, and a serial killer’s tool kit: latex gloves, a BB pistol and ammunition, a 2-pound drilling hammer, rubber tubing, plastic garbage bags, and so on.
Thankfully, the woman on mission only went so far as to use a non-lethal weapon, pepper spay, before she was apprehended. Still, this was a violent encounter brought on by a case of bad romance.
In November, Nowak pleaded guilty to third-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor battery. After a year of probation, she currently still receives checks from the government for working at a flight training camp in Corpus Christi, Texas.
It’s been three years since Nowak’s “incident.” Apparently, the military has a tough time admitting that psychopathic romantic obsession is grounds for dismissal. Certainly it takes more strident precautions against the possibility of sharing a tent with a dude who, just maybe, has a boyfriend.
August 21, 2010 at 9:47 pm, Dbcooper said:
You don't know what you are talking about. Nowak will also be discharged from the Navy with an “Other Than Honorable” discharge for her conduct. She will also be reduced in rank from O-6 to O-5, which will have a significant impact on her pension. http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/08/gan-nowak…
In contrast, servicemembers discharged under DADT receive an honorable discharge and no reduction in rank. Nowak WISHES she was discharged under DADT. Had Nowak been discharged for DADT, she's actually have a better level of discharge and get more $$ in her pension because she'd keep her rank.
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