Tag: Dover Air Force Base
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Former USS MARS Command Master Chief Recounts Events Used to Concoct Fitzpatrick Court-Martial, Part 2
CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL: “IT WAS VERY THOUGHTFUL OF YOU GUYS” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 12, 2014) — In Part 1 of The Post & Email’s interview with retired Command Master Chief Poasa Fa’aita, the former USS MARS crew member described the circumstances leading up to the dispatching of a contingent to Washington, DC to…
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Former USS MARS Command Master Chief Recounts Events Used to Concoct Fitzpatrick Court-Martial, Part 1
“A GREAT IDEA” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 11, 2014) — As reported previously, a former crew member of the USS MARS who served with CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) in the late 1980s spoke with The Post & Email about his recollections of Fitzpatrick’s character and the events surrounding his April 1990 court-martial which…
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Fitzpatrick Court-Martial: MWR Fund Usage Praised by Senior Officers
“MISSION COMPLETED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 4, 2014) — A former shipmate in a position of high responsibility on the USS MARS at the time that CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III was the executive officer in the late 1980s has described in detail how and why individuals from the ship and their wives were sent…
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The Significance of June 28, Part 2
HOW DID PAYING RESPECT TO A MILITARY HERO TURN INTO A COURT-MARTIAL? by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Jul. 5, 2012) — [Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of Part 1 of this story in which LCDR Fitzpatrick had related the aftermath of a terrorist attack which killed the brother of his ship’s captain in…