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You do them justice.
F-18 Crash Near Mt. Rainier
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inigo88
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Thanks for taking the time to commemorate them here.
Pilot Fighter
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Aviators Return of Remains
The remains of two aviators lost in an EA-18G Growler crash on Oct. 15, 2024, will return home from Dover Air Force Base the week of Nov. 4, 2024.
LT Serena Wileman will come home to Oak Harbor on Monday, Nov. 4, at approximately 7:00 p.m. Wallin-Stucky Funeral Home will release details on LT Wileman’s procession and provide information on public involvement for those who wish to gather along the route in support of LT Wileman’s return.
LCDR Lyndsay Evans will return home to Anacortes on a later date during the week. As per her family’s wishes, LCDR Evans’ arrival will be a private affair.
The families of both LT Wileman and LCDR Evans wish to express their gratitude for the gracious support from the local and surrounding communities these past weeks.
- From NAS Whidbey Island FB page
The remains of two aviators lost in an EA-18G Growler crash on Oct. 15, 2024, will return home from Dover Air Force Base the week of Nov. 4, 2024.
LT Serena Wileman will come home to Oak Harbor on Monday, Nov. 4, at approximately 7:00 p.m. Wallin-Stucky Funeral Home will release details on LT Wileman’s procession and provide information on public involvement for those who wish to gather along the route in support of LT Wileman’s return.
LCDR Lyndsay Evans will return home to Anacortes on a later date during the week. As per her family’s wishes, LCDR Evans’ arrival will be a private affair.
The families of both LT Wileman and LCDR Evans wish to express their gratitude for the gracious support from the local and surrounding communities these past weeks.
- From NAS Whidbey Island FB page
Pilot Fighter
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Nice to see my home town showing respect to one of the fallen:
www.whidbeynewstimes.com
Procession brings fallen aviator home | Whidbey News-Times
Lt. Serena “Dug” Wileman, who lost her life in the Oct. 15 EA-18G Growler crash, returned home.
www.whidbeynewstimes.com
///AMG
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Well guys, SIR was released officially a few days ago (though we got a read-in many months ago). And growler golf is this Friday, which was the last place I saw either of them alive a year ago, and another member of the flight who didn't die. I go by that golf course every time I drive to work Navy, and I haven't passed view of that particular hole without thinking about them since. That'll be a tough part of the course, for sure. Just under a month from a year ago.
Wardogg
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The report leave any questions unanswered?
///AMG
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A lot of the evidence was destroyed or unrecoverable. But the “how” is pretty definitive. The “why” may always be a question mark
DE727UPS
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OH6CQPsztk
Pretty interesting analysis from Mover. Will be interesting to see what Gonky thinks as he's an F18 Navy guy. Can't imagine flying around the Cascades in crappy weather at 450K.
knot4u
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I think Mover flew F-18s in the Navy reserve as well, not Growlers though. He seems like a fairly accomplished weirdo, he walked away from a right seat 787 job at a major US airline. A job that many here would likely do illegal things to get and he just wasn't happy so he quit. I'm aware 121 flying isn't sunshine and rainbows 24/7 but at least he made room for someone else who does actually want the job?
Kingairer
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I didnt know he quit, thought it was just on leave.
DE727UPS
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Yeah, I'm not sure, either. He did write like 12 books, so maybe that pays pretty well.
///AMG
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I'll just say this. Nobody knows who "mover" or "gonky" were. They were nobodies. Now have apparently convinced a bunch of people they are in the know. They were no-load dumb •s who sucked at their jobs and were shown the door. I wouldn't take anything they say as being anything informative. I wish these disgraces to the profession would go away and shut their mouths for the sake of everyone else
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that’s most people with large followings in any niche category of social media tbqh
Kingairer
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I guess he resigned. Yikes.
Wardogg
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I was just commenting to my SIC the other day while we were cruising that no one quits the majors. I was apparently incorrect.
scooter2525
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I don't think it's any different than using screen names outside of JC. when I had in n out with @derg awhile ago; he didn't even blink when I gave them my name. "scooter2525; double double animal style up!"
Kingairer
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It is very different.
Continued low level in deteriorating Wx on VR MTRs has morted a surprisingly large number of aircrew. Knowing when to route abort and climb out of the route structure, executing it in a timely manner, and sticking with it and not trying to descend back down, is imperative. Unless you were flying an aircraft that was fully all-weather/IMC navigation capable at low level, such as an A-6E Intruder, F-111 Aardvark, B-1 Lancer or B-52 Stratofortress, continuing in deteriorating Wx and attempting to maintain VMC, just isn’t going to happen. And routes that allow all-weather/IMC ops are IR routes anyway. Yet again, this isn’t a new method or causal factor or series of factors, to have ended in an aircrew’s demise. There’s one from 1986 just northeast of PHX on VR-239 in the west side of the Mazatzal mountains. I wrote about it here:
