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Female Pilot in Crash Trump Blamed on DEI Was Top 20% Army Cadet
Daily Beast ^ | February 2, 2025 | Jennifer M. Wood

Posted on 02/02/2025 12:47:07 PM PST by xxqqzz

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1 posted on 02/02/2025 12:47:07 PM PST by xxqqzz
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She might have been intelligent but she was a bad pilot


2 posted on 02/02/2025 12:49:14 PM PST by Josa
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Lezbo fjb employee gone suicide by murder!


3 posted on 02/02/2025 12:50:30 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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“She had been in the top 20 per cent of Army ROTC cadets nationwide and picked for a prestigious role as a White House social aide.”

Based on DEI-based scoring, just like what is going on with Air Traffic Controllers - where they give points to being from ‘selected classes’ of people?


4 posted on 02/02/2025 12:50:31 PM PST by BobL
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She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.


5 posted on 02/02/2025 12:50:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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He blamed the pilot??? Didn’t hear him say that.


6 posted on 02/02/2025 12:51:05 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Has anyone blamed her personally?

Trump's comment about DEI was probably aimed at ATC.

7 posted on 02/02/2025 12:51:43 PM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Top 20% because the regulations she was required to achieve were specifically lowered so she would be sure to qualify. The only thing she ending up qualifying for was flying a helicopter into a civilian aircraft.


8 posted on 02/02/2025 12:52:26 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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“He blamed the pilot??? Didn’t hear him say that.”
You are correct, he was blaming DEI policies in selecting air traffic controllers.


9 posted on 02/02/2025 12:52:47 PM PST by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents say Russia Influenced The 2024 Election)
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She might have been intelligent but she was a bad pilot.

Yep. Should have been a doctor in the Army instead.

She may have been an okay pilot if the Army wasn't woke in the first place. Standards would have been higher.

10 posted on 02/02/2025 12:52:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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I remember him blaming air traffic control DEI, not that pilot.


11 posted on 02/02/2025 12:52:56 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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The plane crashed...it was almost double the limit.

When was the time before that she flew one of these copters...this exact copter. Had she flown with NV glasses before??

12 posted on 02/02/2025 12:53:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Why do you assume she was a ‘DEI’ hire? because she’s a woman?


13 posted on 02/02/2025 12:53:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Being in the top 20% in DEI-military can and will mean something quite different than what it means in a pure meritocracy.


14 posted on 02/02/2025 12:53:59 PM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Because as long as DEI is around people are going to ASSume.


15 posted on 02/02/2025 12:54:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So from July 2019 to the time of the crash, “they” had only accumulated 450 hours of flight time. This is a person who was given preferential treatment to be a pilot, and that preferential treatment continued after death to allow her family to scrub her social media account because it was embarrassing to the Army. Most here get that, but I expect to get comments from the DU trolls who get their kicks posting here.


16 posted on 02/02/2025 12:54:41 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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I believe the DEI angle Trump brought up was ATC.

Everything I have read, even Durham local stories, show she was actually quite impressive. Of course, if she happens to do something at the WH or is at some march, that DQs her and she obviously was a product of DEI (/s).

She probably made a mistake - if she was the pilot at the time, but someone else in that helo didn’t catch it either. ATC didn’t catch it, or give enough of a vector where the jet was. The helo crew probably saw the other jet.

I’ve never flown a helo, I don’t know if they have to set the altimeter, but someone else I know who is a pilot said transposing two digits would have put the helo off by 150 feet.


17 posted on 02/02/2025 12:54:47 PM PST by Nifty
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great question. Hope we get answers


18 posted on 02/02/2025 12:55:10 PM PST by Blue Highway
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She was a public affairs aide, helicopter pilot, and wanted to be a physician? Sounds like she was spread too thin.


19 posted on 02/02/2025 12:55:40 PM PST by Rinnwald
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So? When you loosen the standards and get DEI crap...top 20% means nothing.


20 posted on 02/02/2025 12:57:15 PM PST by Fledermaus (GOP RINOs - Get on Board or Get Out!)
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