Posted on 06/11/2017 12:27:45 PM PDT by KeyLargo
First Female Presidential Helicopter Pilot Fired Over Assault Arrest
Jonah Bennett National Security/Politics Reporter 5:15 PM 06/07/2017
The first female presidential helicopter pilot has been fired from command of her current squadron after she declined to report to her chain of command that she was arrested for assault.
Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jennifer Grieves, who served as the first female officer to command Marine One in 2009, was removed from command of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, “due to a loss of trust and confidence in her ability to continue to lead,” Task & Purpose reported Wednesday.
She assumed command of HMH-464 in May 2015, according to her Marine Corps biography.
Grieves was arrested in December and charged with simple assault over a domestic dispute, while she was at her home in Sneads Ferry, N.C. Although she was released on $500 bail, the charge is still pending. Grieves never reported the incident, and now she has lost command and will be reassigned elsewhere within II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Grieves gained a certain amount of fame when ABC News proclaimed her “person of the week” after she finished serving in a year-long post as pilot of Marine One during the Obama administration. She served with an all-female crew in her last flight on the job.
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June 3, 2017
FAA frowns on pilots having more than one gender in five years
By Ed Straker
The FAA says that it will not automatically award pilot licenses to applicants who have had more than one gender in the past five years. That is, if they have had a “sex change operation” in the past five years, the FAA says they may have to wait before being given a piloting license. They can still apply for a piloting license if they have had their bodies cosmetically rearranged or artificially grown breasts in the past five years, but in that case, they have to fill out a gender dysphoria mental illness form to provide more information. The form, to be filled out by a psychiatrist, asks whether the patient has “mental health concerns,” has ever been in a mental hospital, and has ever tried to kill himself – all good questions to ask about mentally ill people who want to have pilot licenses, wouldn’t you agree?
The form doesn’t indicate what would be disqualifying – if the applicant has mental illness, he might not be automatically denied. Perhaps applicants who have some mental problems would be required to have their psychiatrists ride with them as a co-pilot, or required to take sedatives on long solo flights.
I wanted more information about this, and I found a link on Google for the Transgender Pilot Association, but when I clicked on the link, the site was no longer there. I guess the website, like its owners, had transmuted into something else.
The FAA used to require all transvestites to be examined by psychiatrists, but it recently dropped the requirement, figuring that those who had attempted to switch genders more than five years ago must be stable. Commercial airlines even employ transvestite pilots.
And in other news:
United Express Captain Arrested for Botched Castration of Transgender Woman
by Gary Leff on May 27, 2017
An enterprising director could make a United Pilots Gone Wild! video out of the two who were too drunk to fly, the one that was running brothels all over Houston and the United Express pilot and co-pilot who got into a fight.
Now a Chicago O’Hare-based United Express captain for ExpressJet, the same Express carrier where a flight couldn’t continue because pilots were fighting, has been arrested in a Colorado castration case. And it gets even stranger.
A man charged with using an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman is an airline captain based at Chicago O’Hare, the I-Team has learned.
James Pennington, 57, was arrested on Thursday by police in Denver, Colorado and charged with suspicion of first degree assault when he allegedly castrated a transgender woman during a makeshift operation in the woman’s apartment.
*yikes*
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