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Air Force Sacks First Female To Lead A Fighter Demonstration Team After Just Two Weeks
The War Zone ^ | FEBRUARY 12, 2019 | BY TYLER ROGOWAY

Posted on 02/12/2019 1:18:15 PM PST by Yo-Yo

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To: DuncanWaring

Oh, whew, I posted first! You had me worried there for a minute. I thought I double-posted even though I did a search first...


21 posted on 02/12/2019 1:42:12 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: jjotto
She had an Instagram account joking around with the son of Major John “Rain” Waters, the previous Viper demo pilot.

Waters no longer has a web page at Shaw AFB (which makes sense if he moved), but the cached version had him graduating high school in 2003 and finishing his bachelors in 2007, which means he's unlikely to have a son old enough for her to be in trouble for "joking around" with.

22 posted on 02/12/2019 1:43:13 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: yarddog
If you're not one of the six(?) best pilots in the USAF, you shouldn't be doing this:


23 posted on 02/12/2019 1:43:20 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: carriage_hill

Sticking her hand out the plane window to dry her nails.


24 posted on 02/12/2019 1:44:52 PM PST by dznutz
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To: PapaBear3625

I haven’t found details. I’m hoping some who knows Maj. Waters will explain who his son is. Either way, someone who knows will talk.

The head of the Thunderbirds was fired about a year ago for getting physically violent with another pilot. That was also called “loss of confidence”.


25 posted on 02/12/2019 1:45:00 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Excellent! So it wouldn’t seem to involve the kid, and the Instagram thing was just coincidence. Thanks.


26 posted on 02/12/2019 1:47:09 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: NorthMountain
Or this unless you're #1:


27 posted on 02/12/2019 1:47:49 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Kickass Conservative

Sounds like Wesley Crusher’s graduation, minus the emergency beam-out.

Source/History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Thunderbirds_Indian_Springs_Diamond_Crash


28 posted on 02/12/2019 1:51:15 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: NorthMountain

Sorry, I’m calling tht pic “shopped”. The “5” should be upside down. Besides, I doubt they would attempt such a maneuver when neither pilot can see the other plane.


29 posted on 02/12/2019 1:53:18 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Yo-Yo

“Maj. Waters, last season’s Viper Demo pilot has resumed command, so the team is in great hands...”

So how did MAJ Waters get removed from command in the first place? Obviously he wasn’t relieved for cause or he wouldn’t have been put back in.

Was he told by his highers to step aside & make room for the first female Viper Demo commander in return for a positive OER, or warned that consequences would follow if he didn’t?

This altogether smells; somebody up the chain will have egg on his/her face over this. Is the female pilot still in Viper Demo flight & do the other pilots feel safe flying in close proximity with her?


30 posted on 02/12/2019 1:55:26 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: NorthMountain

How the f&%# and with what do those two maintain separation!!?


31 posted on 02/12/2019 1:57:15 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: carriage_hill

Texting while flying shouldn’t be a problem since we are constantly informed that women can obviously multitask, BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN.
That beg the question to THIS comment constantly attributed to the “smartest people in the room : FEMALES:

“NOT TONIGHT DEAR. I HAVE A HEADACHE...”...???...
And I say this as a woman who never has understood this line of an excuse6


32 posted on 02/12/2019 1:57:37 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Your pic too is “shopped”. The plane’s tails would contact each other.
But maybe I’m the schmuck here and you two knew they were fake and were just having fun.


33 posted on 02/12/2019 1:58:51 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Kickass Conservative

That was due to a mechanical problem in the lead pilot’s airplane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Thunderbirds_Indian_Springs_Diamond_Crash

https://jjetspress.com/TBDmishapreport.pdf


34 posted on 02/12/2019 1:59:43 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Ronald_Magnus
See for yourself
35 posted on 02/12/2019 2:01:28 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: smvoice

Should that take one’s mind OFF the headache, and make things nice-nice, again?


36 posted on 02/12/2019 2:03:44 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Ronald_Magnus
Check it out.

That's on afthunderbirds dot com. Photoshopped?

You sure you still want to claim that?

37 posted on 02/12/2019 2:05:15 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: elcid1970
How the f&%# and with what do those two maintain separation!!?

I have no idea. I'm not a pilot ... much less one of the six(?) best pilots in the USAF.

38 posted on 02/12/2019 2:07:54 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: carriage_hill

He’ll if they can TRULY multitask, they should be able to do BOTH, at the VERY same time, with no problem


39 posted on 02/12/2019 2:09:23 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: smvoice

I’d have a death-grip on that stick; screw the iPhone.


40 posted on 02/12/2019 2:12:10 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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