Why did the Chicken cross the road?
By the U.S. Navy

Naval Education and Training Command (NAVEDTRA):

- The purpose is to familiarize the chicken with road-crossing
procedures. Road-crossing should be performed only between the
hours of sunset and sunrise. Solo chickens must have at least three miles of visibility and a safety observer.

Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS):

- Due to the needs of the Navy, chicken was involuntarily reassigned to the other side of the road. This will be 3-year unaccompanied tour and we promise to give the chicken a good-deal assignment afterwards. Every chicken will be required to do one road crossing during its career, and this will not affect its opportunities for future promotion.

Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC):

- This event will need confirmation; we need to repeat it using
varied chicken breeds, road types, and weather conditions to confirm whether it can actually happen within the parameters specified for chickens and the remote possibility that they might cross thruways designated by some as "roads."

Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe  (CINCUSNAVEUR):

- The purpose is not important. What is important is that the
chicken remained under the OPCON of COMSIXTHFLEET and did not CHOP to the theater on the other side of the road.   Without Chopping, the chicken was able to achieve a seamless road crossing with near perfect, real-time in-transit visibility.

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIRSYSCOM):

- The chicken was instructed to hold short of the road. This road
incursion incident was reported in a Hazardous Chicken Road-Crossing Report (HCRCR). Please re-emphasize that chickens are required to read back all hold short instructions. Finding--CHICKEN ERROR.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWARSYSCOM):

- The "stovepipe" chickens of today will be replaced with a
multi-function, supported, affordable, integrated and interoperable
world-class chicken-to-warriors and supporting elements, enabling them to dominate the roads of today and tomorrow, as we move "Forward...From the Sea."  Comptroller holds and corporate taxes, however, will require delay fielding for two years, unless
Congressional plus-ups are approved.

Office of Naval Intelligence:

- What chicken?
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ported in Bremerton, Washington. The Camden is armed with missiles and machine guns. These are defensive weapons, as the Camden is classified as a noncombatant ship. Due to the size and mission of the Camden, the Navy requires that her commanding officer be a Captain.   Women have been allowed on noncombatant ships since 1978, and on combatant ships since 1994. Women now are about 14% of Navy personnel.

The Camden, 54,000 tons, 769 feet long, 107 feet wide and having a draft of 38 feet, is one of the Navy's largest ships. It is capable of 30 knots and is home to a crew of 565. It is affectionately known as "the Powerful Pachyderm of the Pacific". Capt. Loewer's  favorite place on the ship is in the engineering spaces, the engine room, the boiler room; the places where she started her career on the Yosemite
Loewer has earned two advanced degrees in mathematics and when assigned to Germany decided to study the language and take her law degree in German: a doctorate in international law at the University of Kiel in Germany.   She has served assignments at the Pentagon where her advice to Admirals running the Academy was to change

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