Line #11 Recap/JAGS05E19Promises


1	'''"Promises"''' is an episode of ''Series/{{JAG}}'' that first aired on March 28, 2000. Directed by Creator/ArthurWForney. Written by Creator/JohnSchulian.
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3	Commander Rabb starring is the star of Renee Peterson's newest Navy recruitment video. At the same time, a female enlisted crewman, Seaman Granato (Creator/PaigeMoss), has had enough of being on deck swabbing duty, and just walks off, going absent without leave (AWOL).
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5	Rabb and Lt. Colonel [=MacKenzie=] track Granato down to persuade her to return to her ship before her unauthorized absence (a minor offense usually warranting only non-judicial punishment) becomes upgraded to desertion, which is a felony carrying serious prison time.
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7	However, Granato claims that the Navy lied to her during her recruitment -- by promising her a career in air traffic control, but ultimately sending her to regular electronics technician school. She therefore feels that the Navy owes her a discharge. Her claim is complicated by her destroyer's skipper, Commander Woodling (Creator/AmySteel), a hard-nosed woman, who is being harsher on Granato because she doesn't want to coddle her female subordinates.
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9	Rabb's taking part in a Navy recruitment commercial further erodes trust between him and Granato, as she feels that Rabb is complicit in the Navy deceiving her, and therefore cannot objectively defend her.
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11	Meanwhile, Admiral Chegwidden helps out an old friend of his, Captain Peter Tully (Joel Higgins), an aviator who has to go to a flight evaluation board because he used Viagra too soon before flying and had a little accident. Chegwidden goes to consult Dr. Walden (Creator/CynthiaSikes), a civilian urologist, and falls in love with her despite their awkward meeting and that the misconception that the friend (Tully) is a stand-in for Chegwidden himself.
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13	!! Tropes
14	* DoubleStandard: The female skipper of Granado's ship apparently gave her female subordinates harsher punishments for the same offenses compared to her male crewmen.
15	* FridgeLogic: Because women have to work twice as harder to get by in the male dominated Navy, they must also be more severely deterred from mistakes, as one mistake has more severe career consequences for women compared to men, according to Commander Woodling.
16	* IHaveThisFriend: Chegwidden honestly does have a friend who is too embarrassed to talk about his erectile dysfunction with a doctor, but of course Dr. Walden thinks Chegwidden really is talking about himself and not his friend.
17	* ItsAllAboutMe: Seaman Granato wasn't sent to Air Traffic Control school as was promised, but the Navy did offer her other schools that would have been interesting and challenging careers, such as aviation electronics technician school, radarman school etc. But she turned down all of them, because she wanted ''only'' air traffic control school. And when she didn't get it, she deserted her ship.
18	* RecruitersAlwaysLie: Why Seaman Granato walked off her ship. She felt that the recruiter lied to her to get her to enlist.
19	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Seaman Granato has had enough of polishing the ship's bell, so she rings it twice and storms off.

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