Description
Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer. Respected by superiors and subordinates, his personal and professional values seemed perfectly aligned with the institution he served, the United States Coast Guard. By day's end his career was finished.
At a speaking engagement at the Coast Guard Academy, Blanchard's icebreaker--a series of time-tested corny jokes--was met with silence. Within hours, an investigation was underway into whether his remarks constituted sexual harassment. Several weeks later, threatened with a court-martial, he shot himself.
The author investigates Blanchard's "death by political correctness" in the context of the turmoil surrounding the U.S. Armed Forces' gender inclusion struggles from the 1980s to the present.
Author: Ladson F. Mills
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 01/07/2019
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781476675459
ISBN10: 1476675457
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Military Policy
- History | Military | Naval
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Retired Navy Reserve Captain Ladson F. Mills, III is a former trustee of the University of the South and Fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is the former president of the American Study Program of Oxford and a regular contributor to Virtueonline and The Covert Letter. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.