CNO Admiral Roughead is taking his campaign against “frufru coffee” to boutique coffee-loving San Francisco today.
(Coffee levity aside: The Admiral is speaking to the World Affairs Council of Northern California, so if you’re anywhere near the Marine’s Memorial Hotel in San Francisco at 6:00 PM, stop by and see the show.)
It would be nice if the CNO–who has spoken about the importance of reaching out to youngsters and teaching them the story of their Navy–recognized the fact that San Francisco has formally decided to keep their JROTC programs–a choice that came as municipalities throughout the country (in some rather surprising regions) decided to shutter theirs.
Or maybe he’ll talk about the costs inherent in reduced manning. Or throw a few rocks at the NSC Cutters sitting pier-side at Alameda. The last time I saw him in SF–when he wasn’t CNO yet–he talked about the growth of the submarine market. So maybe ASW is on the menu. Or China. We’ll see.
Anyway, before the CNO speaks, I’ll be busy trying to help Fleet Week folks hammer out the nuts and bolts of Fleet Week 2010–like figuring out who, exactly, is coming and deciding where we’re going to put Fleet Week’s foreign participants! (We’re confident that a visit from generic-coffee drinking CNO Admiral Roughead won’t negatively influence the Canadian Navy–a Navy that, as we all know, runs on Timothy Hortons tasty coffee– as our northern neighbors decide which ships they’re going to send down for the big week…)
