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Speed thrills: Bahrain sailors take a drive with Formula One wonderkid (update w/video link)

By Kevin Lilley on April 21, 2013 5th Fleet, Navy

Most stories about auto-racing drivers supporting the Navy come in variations of the same flavor: Either a NASCAR superstar visits a fleet concentration area somewhere stateside, or a flag officer makes his way to Charlotte and ends up talking to a future Sprint Cup champion casually leaning on a pile of raw horsepower. Rarely do you see, say, a 21-year-old American driving on the world’s most elite racing circuit spend some of his downtime before a big race taking sailors out for joyrides. Pierside. In Bahrain. Alexander Rossi is a “reserve driver” for the Caterham Formula One team. In addition to…

Bad in Bahrain on the newsstand

By Sam Fellman on April 2, 2012 5th Fleet, Investigation, leadership, Navy, Navy Times

Our cover story this week focuses on how a hard-partying, hard-drinking commanding officer warped the morale and authority lines of the Bahrain-based task force he led. He attended a string of parties at a subordinate’s apartment over the summer of 2011, where heavy drinking frequently led to public indecency, a highly inappropriate spectacle in an Islamic country where modesty is the norm. Officers were afraid to warn him or report his behavior. And so it continued until he became the 19th CO of the 22 fired in 2011. Here’s a short intro to the story: By nightfall June 3, what…

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