Posted on 04/12/2018 7:48:37 AM PDT by pabianice
Courtland Savage never expected to fly fighter jets.
Though he had served in the Air Force Reserve before transferring to the Navy and knew his way around a C-17 Globemaster transport, his test scores weren't the highest and the demanding, elitist culture of fighter aviation seemed beyond his reach...
Less than two years later, though, Savage would be kicked out of fighter training and find his Navy career in shambles. While he acknowledges he struggled in some disciplines, he believes that implicit racial bias ultimately made the difference for him between having his training cut short and being given another chance...
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
You don’t settle for second best.
Those planes are expensive..................
Just ask John McCain............................
It is a Constitutional right that every America be certified as a Naval Aviator. [/Libspeak]
I’ve known several people who entered the Naval Aviation program. I’ve known a bunch who went to Air Force flight training.
Both programs are brutal and they are merit based. I only knew one classmate who failed out of the USAF training.
Of the three Naval Aviator trainees I knew, only one graduated.
ALL of them have told me that it was insane training. And if your heart was not in 100%, 100% of the time...you would not make it.
So, when the guy said that he was not great in all disciplines...he admitting that he wasn’t good enough.
Those planes are expensive..................
Just ask John McCain............................
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Johnny “Crash” McCain aka Maverick.
They would have pinned his wings on right then.
When you’re not good enough in anything you play the race card.
Bravo! First spontaneous chuckle of the day.
A black guy named Savage? There’s your racism right there!
;^)
Other than having 2020 vision, what’s his qualification?
He barely passed the written, not surprising for a mechanic from a transport squadron.
He should have gone all out to work his way through. Probably thought he was a cinch because he was black, and knew he could scream “racism!” if he didn’t pass.
Does anyone want a guy like that in charge of an F-18? Would anyone want him on their wing?
Isn’t it amazing? He ADMITS he “struggled” in some disciplines (i.e. he wasn’t good enough), then screams RACISM.
Almost every high school athlete comes to the realization he or she isn’t going to win a scholarship on a D1 team. Then almost every college D1 athlete comes to realize that he or she isn’t going to be drafted by a pro team. Then a lot of those athletes who are drafted by the pros languish on a farm club for years before realizing the “call” is never going to come. Life is brutal and competition is fierce for everything.
Non issue in my opinion. I served in a rag outfit for 4 years and seen many oh white pilots get dropped to know better.
Maybe it’s like basketball. Blacks are very good, whites are not. Blacks are overly represented, whites are not.
And that was everyone else's fault but his own.
A friend of mine wanted to be a Fighter Pilot but ended up training to fly C-130 but he had 1 problem he could never stay/land on the runway
Hi.
“Navy flight training is merciless.”
Caucasians flunk out too.
Just sayin
5.56mm
There is a picture of the failure at the site. Who knew there is always an African excuse to pin on everything but their own poor behavior. None of their failures are ever their fault, ever. I would like to see his transcripts. For that matter, I would also like to see the Obama’s transcripts from STEM classes that are completely objective. We all know that won’t happen.
Actually he is pissed because there wasn't the racism he has been taught to expect in which he would get extra credit for not being white.
I remember several years ago, the Navy was insisting that they get a woman certified as a carrier based pilot. The only woman they had in the program was allowed to be recycled two or three times after failing tests. She ended up crashing and getting killed on her first solo attempt to land on a carrier. She was essentially sacrificed on the alter of political correctness and militant feminism.
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