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	Jeremy Michael Boorda
		Jeremy Michael Boorda (26 November 1939 - 16 May 1996), an Admiral of the United States Navy, rose from seaman to the 25th Chief of Naval Operations.
		Boorda, born in South Bend, Indiana, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1956.
		As CINCSOUTH, Admiral Boorda was in command of all NATO forces engaged in operations enforcing United Nations sanctions against the warring factions in the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jeremy_Michael_Boorda.html (714 words)

	Top admiral kills himself
		Jeremy Michael Boorda, the chief of naval operations, shot himself in the chest at his home at the Washington Navy yard, using a.38-caliber pistol that belonged to his son-in-law.
		Boorda, 57, who entered the Navy as a seaman recruit and became the first enlisted man to rise to the post of chief of naval operations, commanded NATO forces during the early days of the U.S. involvement in the Bosnian civil war.
		Boorda was said to have told an aide after learning of the issue that Newsweek intended to raise: "Well, I guess the thing to do is bring them in and tell the truth and we'll talk about it." When the interview later was postponed, he went home, ostensibly for lunch.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/05/17/boorda.html (901 words)

	Jeremy Michael Boorda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 – May 16, 1996) was an admiral of the United States Navy and the 25th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO).
		Boorda died 16 May 1996 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
		Boorda also faced unrelenting hostility from a majority of flag and field-grade Naval Officers who believed that Boorda had betrayed the Navy by allying himself with the Clinton Administration in the Administration's efforts to attack the Navy after the Tailhook scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeremy_Michael_Boorda (779 words)

	PROFILES - Jeremy M. Boorda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda was born on November 26, 1939, in South Bend, IN.
		Jeremy became the first enlisted sailor in U.S. history to rise to the position of admiral.
		Boorda was the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, during military and humanitarian operations in Bosnia in 1993.
	www.jewishsailors.com /profiles/boorda (195 words)

	Jeremy Michael Boorda, Admiral, United States Navy
		Jeremy Boorda was to have met about the time of the shooting with the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek magazine, which was working on a story concerning his medals.
		Boorda was to have joined Clinton and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on Thursday for announcement of an initiative seeking a permanent worldwide ban on land mines.
		Boorda, who was 56 and chief of naval operations, shot himself through the chest at his home in the Washington Navy Yard on May 16, 1996, shortly after learning that two magazine reporters were coming to question him about his right to wear the disputed awards.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /borda.htm (3265 words)

	CNN - Navy's top officer dies of gunshot - May 16, 1996 (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jeremy Michael Boorda, died Thursday from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after learning Newsweek magazine was raising questions about the legitimacy of some of his combat medals.
		Boorda told the sailors how much he thought of them, and said that some people will not think he did the right thing, the source said.
		Rear Adm. Kendell Pease, who was with Boorda a little over an hour before the shooting, said that when he told Boorda, at about 12:30 p.m., what the subject of the interview was, the admiral abruptly announced he was going home for lunch instead of eating the meal that had been brought to his office.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /US/9605/16/boorda.6p (810 words)

	Admiral Boorda Memorial
		Admiral Boorda, born in South Bend, Ind., 26 November 1939, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1956.
		Admiral Boorda's first shore tour was as a weapons instructor at Naval Destroyer School in Newport.
		As CINCSOUTH, Admiral Boorda was in command of all NATO forces engaged in operations enforcing UN sanctions against the warring factions in the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
	www.balch-porterfield.org /admbroodamem.htm (554 words)

	Mike Boorda & Hyman Rickover
		Boorda was not only remarkable because he was the only Jew ever to have reached the rank of Chief of Naval Operations, but he was also the only man to achieve such a high rank working his way from the lowest level of enlisted man to the highest position available.
		Boorda made a name for himself when, in the course of his career, he became the commander of the NATO force that bombed Yugoslavia during the 1996 assault against that country by the Europeans and the Clinton administration.
		Mike Boorda was born in South Bend, Indiana in November of 1939.
	www.jbuff.com /c020305.htm (1285 words)

	SAILORS TO GET MORE TIME AT HOME TRAINING WON'T SUFFER UNDER THE PLAN, BOORDA SAYS.
		Adm. Jeremy Michael Boorda, the chief of naval operations, said the new schedules should allow ships that aren't on deployment to cut their time away from the pier by an average of 19 days per year.
		Boorda's comments, in an interview with defense correspondents, came one day after the skipper of the Norfolk-based destroyer Barry told senators that long stretches away from home are taking a toll on his crew.
		Boorda said the training adjustments, which other senior commanders have been working for some time to develop, are among several steps he's taking to slow the working pace of service members.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950121/01210209.htm (771 words)

	ooBdoo
		Notable officers include Oliver Hazard Perry, Jeremy Michael Boorda, Gerald F. DeConto, Commodore Matthew Perry, who fully opened Tokugawa-era Japan to the West, and Chester Nimitz, Admiral of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, Rodger W. Simpson World War II Hero.
		Jeremy Michael Boorda was 25th Chief of Naval Operations.
		Palmer, Michael A. "The Navy: The Continental Period, 1775-1890".
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=USN (9087 words)

	Clinton Body Count
		Boorda supposedly went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself in the chest (by one report, twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that afternoon.
		Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear.
		Boorda supposedly left two suicide notes, neither of which was released.
	www.daveschultz.com /clinton/bodycount.html (6403 words)

	Jeremy Michael Boorda info here at en.my-widgets.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FOUR STAR ADMIRAL BOORDA, USS SIMPSON AND SEAMAN DAVID JASON SILVER Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 â” May 16, 1996) was an admiral of the United States Navy and the 25th Chief of Naval Operations.
		Boorda is celebrated for being the first (and so far, only) CNO to have risen to the position from...
		Boorda also faced unrelenting hostility from a majority of flag and field-grade Naval Officers who believed that Boorda had betrayed the Navy by allying himself with the Clinton Administration in the Administration's efforts to attack the Navy after the Tailhook '91 scandal.
	en.my-widgets.com /Jeremy_Michael_Boorda (920 words)

	The 6th Estate: 15 May 2005
		Boorda left two notes, one to his wife and family, and another addressed to two friends with instructions to pass the message to all Navy sailors, according to Pentagon and law enforcement sources.
		Boorda indicated that he was not taking his life in the belief that he had been caught in a lie, but out of fears that the media would accuse him of one and blow it out of proportion.
		Boorda's suicide note is made public in a 20,000-word story in the December issue of Washingtonian magazine that also provides new details on the chief of naval operations' death - an event that stunned Washington.
	news4a2.blogspot.com /2005_05_15_news4a2_archive.html (7560 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda Chief of Naval Operations --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Admiral Boorda, born in South Bend, Indiana in November 1938, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1956.
		Admiral Boorda's next assignment was Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group EIGHT in Norfolk, Virginia.
		Bettie (Moran) Boorda have four children and nine grandchildren; two sons are naval officers.
	www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/text/boorda.txt (469 words)

	CNN - News Briefs - May 19, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mike Boorda was buried in a private ceremony Sunday at Arlington National Cemetery.
		Boorda, the highest ranking officer in the Navy, killed himself Thursday in the midst of controversy over two combat decorations he wore for his service during the Vietnam War even though they had not been officially awarded to him.
		Retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, a Vietnam-era predecessor of Boorda as chief of naval operations, said Friday on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Boorda "was completely entitled" to wear the medals.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9605/19/newsbriefs (235 words)

	Kerry's medal problem: The Sandbox TVSpy Message Board (Medals Are His) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The clips are awarded for valor under fire, and there was some doubt about whether Boorda's two tours in Vietnam aboard combat ships qualified him for the awards, although the Washington Post reported that a 1965 Navy manual appeared to support Boorda's right to wear the clips.
		Hours before he was scheduled to meet with Newsweek reporters to discuss the controversy, the admiral went to his home at the Navy Yard and shot himself in the chest.
		Boorda had lied about his age to join the Navy and was the first CNO to rise through the enlisted ranks.??
	www.vault.com /messages/The_Sandbox/The_Sandbox1200017.html (728 words)

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		It was one of Boorda's trademark "all hands" calls in which he briefed sailors on current Navy affairs and answered their questions.
		Boorda was non-Academy, a "mustang:" a "tin-can" surface sailor.
		Boorda's handling of Arthur's nomination had become the test by which critics measured his leadership, judgment, and character.
	www.charleswarner.us /articles/BreakingPoint.htm (8216 words)

	BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 7, 2006 \| BuzzFlash
		Boorda was proud of the Navy service and the Navy was very proud of him.
		Yet what Boorda was accused of doing, wearing a valor award that was not earned on the battlefield, is a very trivial, picayune mater as compared to what President George W. Bush has done.
		Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box author) is an example of a PhD, molecular biologist researcher, teaching in our u's who says Darwin might have concluded differently if he knew what we know today about DNA.
	www.buzzflash.com /articles/mailbag/186 (5467 words)

	BOORDA SAYS HE REGRETS QUITTING NOMINATION FIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Arthur said that Hansen's failure at flight school resulted from subpar performance, not a plot by other officers to punish her for the harassment case.
		As Durenberger pressed for a hearing on the matter last June during Arthur's confirmation for the Pacific command, Boorda and Arthur decided to withdraw the nomination.
		Boorda's comments on the case were part of a profile of him in the February Washingtonian, which hit newsstands Monday.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950131/01310268.htm (345 words)

	Newsweek's Major Embarrassment - By Charles Krohn and David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		On May 16, 1996, Adm. Jeremy Michael Boorda, the chief of naval operations, committed suicide.
		Before Boorda's body was cold, Hackworth was thundering about military honor and the soldier's code.
		The title of the chapter in which he describes the "irregularities" is "A Law Unto Himself." He does not mention the Army's sacred, universal rules.
	www.slate.com /id/2381/sidebar/51012/device/html40 (739 words)

	Kerry on Boorda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of Boorda and his apparent violation, Kerry said: “When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily.” Kerry‘s records refer to a "Silver Star with combat V." The Chicago Sun-Times has reported a U.S. Navy spokesman said, "Kerry's record is incorrect.
		Boorda, who led the NATO strikes against the Serbs in Bosnia (not Kosovo), began to question why we were siding with the Islamic Mujahedeen against Bosnian Christians.
		Boorda must be rolling over in his grave right now.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1201190/posts (2512 words)

	MySpinZone.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chief admiral of the Navy, Jeremy Michael Boorda, committed suicide over questions raised about his right to wear a Combat V by Newsweek magazine in 1996.
		Boorda stated in his suicide note to his sailors that the questions raised about those he wore caused him to take his life.
		Kerry told the Boston Globe that Boorda’s conduct was “sufficient to question [Boorda’s] leadership position.If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you.”(--Words to live by--DOH)
	www.myspinzone.net /print.php?sid=664 (338 words)

	Suicide Reference Library
		Rear Adm. Kendell Pease, who was with Boorda a little over an hour before the shooting, said Boorda was to have met with Newsweek's bureau chief in his Pentagon office at 2:30 p.m.
		Clinton opened the session with a moment of silence in Boorda's memory, as grim-faced military officers stood behind him.
		Clinton praised Boorda for his work in Bosnia and for showing ''unwavering concern for the men and women'' of the U.S. military.
	www.suicidereferencelibrary.com /test4~id~1196.php (496 words)

	Admiral Mike Boorda - Internet Accuracy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Admiral Boorda was the first person to rise through the Navy's enlisted ranks to become chief of naval operations.
		He served as Chief of Naval Personnel (1988-91), was weapons officer on a destroyer, captain of a minesweeper and a destroyer and commanded various battle groupings.
		Adm. Boorda was proud of his Navy progeny: his two younger sons were naval officers (Lieutenant Commander Robert Boorda and Commander Ed Boorda), a daughter-in-law, Brenda Boorda was a naval officer, and his son-in-law, Bob Dowling, a lawyer for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
	www.accuracyproject.org /cbe-Boorda,Adm.Mike.html (713 words)

	HEARTLIGHT(R) Magazine: Life Without Grace?
		Within hours, Jeremy Michael Boorda lay dead in his yard, with a.38 caliber hole in his chest.
		Two years later, because Jeff decided to face his demons and tell the truth, he was expelled from Annapolis, crushing his lifelong dream of a Navy career.
		Instead of snuffing his life in despair, Jeff Gantar is today a published author, a professional engineer, and a shining example of the redemptive power of truth-telling.
	www.heartlight.org /feature/feature_090496_grace.html (505 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KERRY ON BOORDA The current dispute over Kerry’s medals is a good time to recall the tragic suicide of the Navy's Admiral Mike Boorda in 1996.
		Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the four-star chief of American naval operations, left his sandwiches untouched on his huge, mahogany desk, picked up his hat and ordered his driver to take him to his home in the Washington naval yard.
		Navy Secretary John Dalton put into Boorda's file a letter from Elmo Zumwalt Jr., the chief of naval operations during the war, which says it was "appropriate, justified and proper" for Boorda to attach the small bronze combat V's to the ribbons on his uniform.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=boorda (1818 words)

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