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Following the high ratings (highest Thursday ratings for NBC in years) for The Sound of Music, NBC plans to air another live musical at Christmas time in 2014. Peter Pan is supposedly under consideration. In other NBC news, although not really related, the network has approved a four-hour miniseries of Rosemary's Baby, which will begin filming in January. No word on the casting, although there is some first rate talent behind the camera in director Agnieszka Holland.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2 ... e/3950409/

Variety reports that The Sound of Music Live and Peter Pan Live may be followed by ... A Few Good Men Live! I wonder if the script will reflect the current reality at Guantánamo Bay.

TV has a long tradition of live legal dramas, going back to The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Twelve Angry Men in the 1950s.

jarnon wrote:I wonder if the script will reflect the current reality at Guantánamo Bay.

They can't handle the truth.

A few years ago, George Clooney did a live presentation of Fail Safe. It went fairly well.

jarnon wrote:I wonder if the script will reflect the current reality at Guantánamo Bay.

Paging Aaron Sorkin! He can write a new script based on this shocking real-life story:

The commander of Gitmo was removed after an affair with a civilian employee. The plot thickens ... the woman's husband was found floating in Guantánamo Bay. Accident? Suicide? Terrorists? Recalcitrant Cubans? Russian spies? Or ... I can't handle the truth!

Navy Commander at Guantanamo Base Fired Amid Alleged Affair, Suspicious Death

jarnon wrote:

jarnon wrote:I wonder if the script will reflect the current reality at Guantánamo Bay.

Paging Aaron Sorkin! He can write a new script based on this shocking real-life story:

The commander of Gitmo was removed after an affair with a civilian employee. The plot thickens ... the woman's husband was found floating in Guantánamo Bay. Accident? Suicide? Terrorists? Recalcitrant Cubans? Russian spies? Or ... I can't handle the truth!

Navy Commander at Guantanamo Base Fired Amid Alleged Affair, Suspicious Death

A Few Good Men was based on a real incident.

Bob Juch wrote:

jarnon wrote:

jarnon wrote:I wonder if the script will reflect the current reality at Guantánamo Bay.

Paging Aaron Sorkin! He can write a new script based on this shocking real-life story:

The commander of Gitmo was removed after an affair with a civilian employee. The plot thickens ... the woman's husband was found floating in Guantánamo Bay. Accident? Suicide? Terrorists? Recalcitrant Cubans? Russian spies? Or ... I can't handle the truth!

Navy Commander at Guantanamo Base Fired Amid Alleged Affair, Suspicious Death

A Few Good Men was based on a real incident.

"Fired" isn't the right term, at least at this time; he's been reassigned.

I have to wonder why the top ranking officer there is just a Captain?

Bob Juch wrote: "Fired" isn't the right term, at least at this time; he's been reassigned.

I have to wonder why the top ranking officer there is just a Captain?

Relieved of command = fired

Naval Captain is 0-6, one step below Rear Admiral.

Appa23 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: "Fired" isn't the right term, at least at this time; he's been reassigned.

I have to wonder why the top ranking officer there is just a Captain?

Relieved of command = fired

Naval Captain is 0-6, one step below Rear Admiral.

In point of fact a Navy (or Coast Guard or even a NOAA Commissioned Corps or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps) Captain is an O-6 (as in the capital letter O for Officer, not the number zero).

A Captain is commonly in charge of a large base (or a large ship like a nuclear carrier which has a crew of probably 5 to 6 thousand sailors and marines) but he may not be the senior most officer on base depending on the tenant units (I don't know what units make up the base). For example the commander of the Joint Task Force at Gitmo that runs the detention center is an Admiral.

Heck, a Commander (O-5) is the captain of a boomer sub and has responsibility for nuclear fire power that is probably more than some nuclear capable countries!

tanstaafl2 wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: "Fired" isn't the right term, at least at this time; he's been reassigned.

I have to wonder why the top ranking officer there is just a Captain?

Relieved of command = fired

Naval Captain is 0-6, one step below Rear Admiral.

In point of fact a Navy (or Coast Guard or even a NOAA Commissioned Corps or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps) Captain is an O-6 (as in the capital letter O for Officer, not the number zero).

A Captain is commonly in charge of a large base (or a large ship like a nuclear carrier which has a crew of probably 5 to 6 thousand sailors and marines) but he may not be the senior most officer on base depending on the tenant units (I don't know what units make up the base). For example the commander of the Joint Task Force at Gitmo that runs the detention center is an Admiral.

Heck, a Commander (O-5) is the captain of a boomer sub and has responsibility for nuclear fire power that is probably more than some nuclear capable countries!

My farther was an O-4.

Given the sensitivity of that base I'd expect an admiral to be in charge.

Bob Juch wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

Appa23 wrote:Relieved of command = fired

Naval Captain is 0-6, one step below Rear Admiral.

In point of fact a Navy (or Coast Guard or even a NOAA Commissioned Corps or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps) Captain is an O-6 (as in the capital letter O for Officer, not the number zero).

A Captain is commonly in charge of a large base (or a large ship like a nuclear carrier which has a crew of probably 5 to 6 thousand sailors and marines) but he may not be the senior most officer on base depending on the tenant units (I don't know what units make up the base). For example the commander of the Joint Task Force at Gitmo that runs the detention center is an Admiral.

Heck, a Commander (O-5) is the captain of a boomer sub and has responsibility for nuclear fire power that is probably more than some nuclear capable countries!

My farther was an O-4.

Given the sensitivity of that base I'd expect an admiral to be in charge.

Where do I sign up?

Bob Juch wrote: My farther was an O-4.

Given the sensitivity of that base I'd expect an admiral to be in charge.

As I noted there was at least one Admiral in command of the detention facility portion of the base, one of the tenant units. May well have been others.

The base commander is primarily responsible for running the base infrastructure. Security, maintenance, etc.

When Fort McPherson was still open here in Atlanta the place was crawling with flag officers including at least one and possibly several 4 star Generals (O-10) as I recall. The post was still commanded by an O-6 (an Army Colonel in this case). Same is true for installations across the globe including Europe during the cold war and Korea.