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ADM Boorda deserves our respect and remembrance as a great leader who deeply cared about his sailors and country.

Mike Campbell, a now-retired civilian Navy public affairs officer, knew Boorda personally, worked with him, and says “no way” did the former CNO take his own life. Retired submariner Mike Keating of Chandler, AZ agrees. “Mike Boorda was a better man than that,” he said. Mark Carter, a retired Navy petty officer from Richmond, ME thinks the Navy has engineered a cover-up. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he was murdered,” the Maine native said.

He had already told friends and fellow officers he planned to retire from the Navy in a matter of months.

Three days before he died he told Master Chief of the Navy John Hagen he was getting done in August. “I’d like to do something like make money, fly a plane, buy a boat.”

Does that sound like a man who, just 72 hours later, would fire a bullet into his chest and go down in history as the first Chief of Naval Operations to bear the stigma of committing suicide? Not hardly.

Did the Navy’s first Jewish CNO have some deep-seated tendency to self-destruct, as the Pentagon spinmeisters would have you believe? We invite you to read the following words from a speech Boorda gave at the U.S. Naval Academy just one month before his death.

But when a concerned Rear Admiral Kendell Pease, the Navy’s chief information officer, asked Boorda what he was going to do, the CNO calmly remarked (in front of witnesses): “Well, we’ll just tell them the truth.” And the truth was, when advised in 1995 that the ribbon devices may not be allowed, Boorda removed them immediately and told his staff what he had done. There was no intention to hide or deceive, despite what Hackworth and National Security News Service correspondent Roger Charles suspected.

“Some (Navy leaders) are guilty of the ultimate disloyalty. To save or advance their careers, they have abandoned the very ideals of their profession in order to curry favor with politicians.”

We might add here, the snub-nosed Webb knows all about “currying favor with politicians” of both parties. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican and served one turbulent year as Secretary of the Navy in Ronald Reagan’s administration. In recent years, we have seen him flip-flop back to the Democrats and compile a voting record as senator from Virginia that largely supports the programs of leftist President Barack Hussein Obama.

As a former PAO myself, one who knows what “plausible denials” are and has taught journalism to enlisted members and officers alike, rule number one on controlling a potentially unbelievable story is to find a respected “mainstream media” journalist who will go along with whatever is fed him, grateful for having a big story and the full cooperation of the powers-that-be.

“What I am about to do isn’t very smart, but it is right for me. You see, I have asked you to do the right thing, to care for and take care of each other and to stand up for what is good and correct. All of these things require honor, courage and commitment . . . our core values.

“I am about to be accused of wearing combat devices on two ribbons I earned during sea tours in Vietnam. It turns out I didn’t really rate them. When I found out I was wrong, I immediately took them off, but it really was too late. I don’t expect any reporters to believe I could have made an honest mistake, and you may or may not believe it your-selves. That is up to you, and isn’t all that important now anyway. I’ve made it not matter in the big scheme of things because I love our Navy so much, and you who are the heart and soul of our Navy, that I couldn’t bear to bring dishonor to you.”

Well, if you believe that, you’ll buy Jill Metzger’s lies along with the Brooklyn Bridge.

If for no other reason than to halt the spate of conspiracy theories out there – one woman, a Kay Griggs (you can find her on Google) states her ex-husband, a Marine colonel, was a trained assassin and may have played a role in Boorda’s untimely demise – the Navy should release both the autopsy report and original “note” Boorda allegedly wrote. The one to his family can and should remain private.

And what military officer doesn’t know that the swiftest and surest way of killing oneself is to use a .45 or 9mm pistol. Just place the muzzle in the mouth against the soft palate, tilt the head upwards and squeeze the trigger. “Gut-shooting” yourself, even with illegal hollow-point bullets, is no guarantee of success when you want to commit suicide.