That is not how they suspend someone from flying either. Missing a flight physical means the flight surgeon will notify the Command that grounding due to missing a physical is in order, the head Flight Surgeon will then endose which, in turn, gets sent to the Commander of the Squadron who then endorses and gives the order for orders to be cut for the pilot to be grounded. None of these memo's were official as they did not include endorsements nor paperwork from the flight surgeon's office that he was being grounded. It has to be official like is in the official jacket and a Memo would never be used.
Our Headquarters Command Surgeon received all groundings due to missing flight physicals and circumstances involved. Not transitioning to a new aircraft and getting out of the service would have been an extenuating circumstance and they would have issued orders he was grounded in order to stop the flight pay. If he decided at a later date to return to the cockpit, he would have the physical and be cleared by the flight surgeon to fly who would go through the same steps to get him reinstated and orders would be issued putting the pilot back on flying status and flight pay would resume.
My boss was the only General Officer that was going to continue to receive flight pay in our Command after they issued a regulation General Officers would no longer get flight pay. My boss was a flight surgeon and under different rules. He finally asked to be grounded so he wouldn't continue to receive flight pay since he was the only one at staff meetings receiving flight pay. The Commander signed off and orders were cut grounding him in order to stop the flight pay.
Exactly...that is why this is important and no one is talking about it...this memo is not how things work...then and now.
The rat media just makes me sick, I think they have agreed to stand with CBS, at least CNN.