ADMIRAL BOORDA'S WAR
A REPORTER AT LARGE about events surrounding the suicide last May of Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda... The event brought new anguish to the navy, but also a…
"In an ordinary time, Admiral Boorda would not have been an obvious choice for Chief of Naval Operations. He was not a heroic figure: he did not serve in one of the Navy's glamour arenas—aviation and submarines—and he had never been fired upon in combat. He was a Jew, and Jews are rare in the Navy's upper rungs; he was not an Annapolis man (as all his predecessors had been); and he was a former seaman (as none of his predecessors had been)."