Charles Bolden. Graduate of the Naval Academy. 100 combat missions in an A-6. Test pilot. Astronaut, flew twice, mission commander twice. Commanded 30,000 marines in Kuwait. Retired as major general. Selected to lead NASA.
A very accomplished man, a very smart, savvy leader, a man who mastered a difficult career.
Stabbed in the back. That has got to sting a little, ya know?
What's a big green weenie? When you're due for a weekend of liberty, and the gunny calls you out for a working party, that's a big green weenie. Have the CO tell you to enforce an unpopular policy, only to have him change his mind a week later when it proves unpopular with the troops, and you look like a tool? Green Weenie Time.
A very accomplished man, a very smart, savvy leader, a man who mastered a difficult career.
Gibbs, at his daily news briefing, was asked why Bolden had made the comment.
"It's an excellent question, and I don't think — that was not his task, and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs said.
Stabbed in the back. That has got to sting a little, ya know?
What's a big green weenie? When you're due for a weekend of liberty, and the gunny calls you out for a working party, that's a big green weenie. Have the CO tell you to enforce an unpopular policy, only to have him change his mind a week later when it proves unpopular with the troops, and you look like a tool? Green Weenie Time.
