Posted on 06/28/2014 7:42:48 AM PDT by markomalley
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James became violently ill during a ride with the storied Thunderbirds aerial acrobatic team this week.
Commanders at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., thought it would be good PR to invite the relatively new secretary for a flight with its most famous squadron. Amid tight defense spending, there is pressure to demonstrate the worth of the Thunderbirds, which is back in the air show business after having been grounded last year when sequestration took hold.
But Tuesdays F-16 flight did not go as planned in the cockpit for Ms. James, a former House defense staffer, Pentagon official and defense industry executive.
Someone got the bright idea to invite her on the airplane, said a source familiar with the incident. She got violently ill.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“I’ve heard fighter pilots brag they can make anyone (even cargo and passenger pilots) barf in the back seat.”
Not true. I was a WSO, so I know something about it.
Acceptable Defense;)
Got chased outta the south forty by a thunder storm! YeeHaw!
The SR-71 is a badass bird, but my top 3 are A-10, A-4, and A-6....do ya see a pattern? ;-)
I will be perusing that manual.
“I feel safer knowing that our Air Force Secretary is named Debbie.”
Let us not go full snark on Lil’ Debbie. She can’t help being named after a cupcaky industrial bakery product.
Snide remarks based on the Sec. of the AirForce being an intellectual “Twinkie” are also uncalled for.
Dual chromosomal Flag Officers tend to display known, predictable, behaviors.
Mission Accomplished.
Yer still working on that alphabet thing?
"B" is next;)
Yup! B-17, B-25, B-52, B-1, and B-2......ain’t that folic acid?
No that’s B-12. Now on to the “C”’s
Ya forgot the B-29’s...
Enola Gay & Bockscar plus all the others.
So glad We no speaky Jap, now the time is here to dispose of Camelslobber.
B-29 is a helluva bird...I just think the Mitchell Bomber is sexier.
C-17, C-5, C-47, C-130J.
Ridding ourselves of Camelslobber has to begin here....
Blue Angles fly F-18’s not 15’s.
I don’t know what either the Blue Angels OR Thunderbirds fly. I was responding to the comment that the Fox folks who flew in military jets didn’t get sick; they weren’t in jets doing aerobatics, which explains why this AF Sec got sick and the Fox folks didn’t.
Well, I know what the Blue Angels fly.
I know because I live near Miramar .. which just happens to be a Marine Air Base.
And .. in October, during Fleet Week, the Blue Angels will fly right over my house with a roar that will almost knock you off your feet. They fly so low because they are doing a sweep toward the Military housing just a few blocks from me; all the kids stand outside their homes as the team salutes them with a fly over.
I love it.
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