Carrier dyke

Rico says no one should be surprised (though some are, including the former naval person (no, not Churchill; he's dead) who sent him this) that a nice girl makes good, even if it is in the Navy:

No combat tours, yet she will command Carrier Strike Group Two...
Are you really surprised? In a military that places a premium on diversity, quotas,political correctness, rapid 'upward mobility' of minorities, and possession of a generous measure of mediocrity, success is all but guaranteed.
Well, here it is, the first female Carrier Group Admiral. Zero night carrier landings, no strike experience, no combat experience. Was assistant operations officer on the Lexington, which was the sixty-year-old training carrier that sat in Pensacola for its last forty years; its longest cruise was to Texas. No cruiser time. No sub time. Never a CAG. Never the CO of any aircraft carrier.
She was the commander of a logistics group. Was CO of one ship, the Bataan, an LHD with one operation of note: it assisted Katrina victims in New Orleans. She was the EA for the CNO and had 3 other staff tours. Now she is giving speeches as the Commander, Carrier Strike Group Two.
How can the Navy do this?
She is now in charge of the premiere fighting group of the United States Navy with only three years experience in something that may have been part of a Strike Group, if it deployed outside CONUS, which is not mentioned, so it probably did not happen.
Unprecedented. It is hard to understand, other than as political correctness run amok. Here's her bio: 

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Rear Admiral Nora Tyson graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English. She attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, receiving her commission in the U.S. Navy in December of that year.
Tyson reported for flight training in Pensacola, Florida after serving a brief tour ashore in Washington. She earned her wings as a naval flight officer in 1983.
She served three tours in Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron VQ4, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, including one as commanding officer. She also commanded the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, LHD 5, leading the Navy's contributions to disaster relief efforts on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and deploying twice to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Other tours at sea included duty as assistant operations officer aboard the training aircraft carrier, USS Lexington, AVT 16, and as navigator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. CVN 65.
Ashore, she served as Airborne Communications Officer Course instructor and officer in charge at Naval Air Maintenance Training Detachment 1079, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. She has also completed tours on the Joint Staff as a political-military planner in the Asia-Pacific Division of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate; as executive assistant for the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; as director of staff for commander, Naval Forces Europe/commander 6th Fleet, and as executive assistant for the chief of naval operations. Her most recent assignment was as commander, Logistics Group, Western Pacific/commander, Task Force 73.
She earned a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Affairs from the U.S. Naval War College in 1995.