It was during their circles and arrival session. They do it on every show to pick up and verify their landmarks when they arrrive at a show site, even over P-cola Beach.
Blues Pilot Preemptively Seeks Hegseth Blessing
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Pilot Fighter
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That makes sense. Many of the clips suggested it was part of the airshow.
Minuteman
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Ah but in a twist we want to ge the manager fired.
The USN appears to be letting the team CO handle the situation, with the debrief items remaining in the debrief room where they belong. And the CO is taking it seriously based on his few remarks. I’d heard the flight after this one was a 5-ship versus the normal 6-ship, so that might say something.
Response would probably have been the same, just turned into a pony show.
The Navy screwed Donnie Cochran as they paraded him around as “first black Blue Angels skipper” instead of just letting him do his job.
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Actually, I know this guy personally!
phill1174
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As our parents and grandparents say; “they don’t think fat meat is greasy”. When you turn the other cheek at non standard behavior it’ll happen sooner or later.
Crazier part is at some point some of these same individuals may make their way into the 121 world. I feel for the LCP, CP, etc who has to deal with someone that hasn’t been truly checked about their non standard behavior.
Pilot Fighter
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Very cool. I’ve met him but it was my father that gave me the backstory on his departure from the Blues. He’s a superstar.
DropTank
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///AMG
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The dude f***ed up. He knows he did, and he is on the record now explaining how it happened. He didn’t • up because he intended to, he executed the show profile incorrectly. You can very clearly see that he missed his run-in for the bridge pass, which has become a “thing” in the last 5 years or so in this demonstration. If you really want to get granular, everyone on the team has less than 1500 hrs total flying time, other than the boss and #6. That isn’t a selectivity issue, it’s now a fundamental problem we have with active duty folks. They walk away from their first tours with comparably many fewer hours after their first tour than guys of my generation or previous did. I’m sure that played into it. Also not seeing any impact at all to the force from the flu, if you want to cite anything more serious than a flurry of clickbait articles in the immediate aftermath of the vaccination policy announcement. I guess we can revisit that in the fall if you’re that concerned
///AMG
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FWIW the daughter of that sub skipper was a JO WSO (junior back seater) in the 2-seat squadron in my first air wing. Believe she was a USNA grad, but dont quote me. Anyway, i remember when that book came out, it was a big mind f*** because he wrote about how he considered killing himself and his family in the book (apparently). One of the co-pilots of the P-3 was also one of my instructors in T-34’s. I’ll just say they didn’t hold Shane Osborne in high regard.
Roger Roger
I am le tired
Well, maybe yall need to spend that trillion dollars a year more wisely.
Still waiting for your explanation how a) Hegseth knows vaccine policy better than infectious disease docs and b) ending mandatory flue vaccines magically won’t increase flu transmission and decrease troop readiness due to sickness.