Good for the Navy on the USS Gabrielle Giffords, bad karma on the Cowpens, and more Navy crime news from all over

Good for the Navy.
Some of my e-friends dislike naming the ship after a former member of Congress
who is still alive. But in the case of Gabrielle Giffords' case, I think that
is kind of the point -- honoring a woman of courage, resiliency and spirit.   

Meanwhile, the Navy jettisoned
another skipper of the USS Cowpens.
This is becoming an
annual event. I wouldn't want to be the next CO of that ship.

Also, oddly, the chief of the boat
for one of the crews of the USS Nebraska got the heave-ho. The Navy says it was
not
because he got all inappropriate with a female midshipmen. But they didn't say
why it was.

Also, a Navy wife was convicted of
second-degree murder for stabbing
to death her lt. cdr. husband, supposedly provoked by learning he was
having an affair. 

To top it off, a
cashier at the Naval Academy managed to steal more than $120,000. She
probably envied the
football coach's salary.