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RIP Kevin.

Condolences, Team Blue.

I hate air demo teams. We assign our best and brightest and then kill them. Over what? Entertainment. Terrible waste, IMO, and I was a jet pilot and even tested the first Blue Angel A-4 at Mojave.

168 posted on 04/21/2007 2:55:00 PM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck

To: Pentagon Leatherneck

Lots of kids grow up to be airmen because of the Blue Angels. It’s more than entertainment.

175 posted on 04/21/2007 2:57:46 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)

To: Pentagon Leatherneck

"I hate air demo teams."

Well, I love 'em. Great ambassador's for the Navy and they make your pride swell all up. I liked he A-4's better though.

183 posted on 04/21/2007 3:03:06 PM PDT by bluecollarman (Rudys not really a conservative now, he's just a liberal in drag, married to a puppy killer.)

To: Pentagon Leatherneck

"I hate air demo teams. We assign our best and brightest and then kill them. Over what? Entertainment. Terrible waste, IMO, and I was a jet pilot and even tested the first Blue Angel A-4 at Mojave."

I don't like spit shined jump boots and bloused trou' on staff rats either.
Not real big on Monty Python marching formations.
But bands and demonstration teams provide a link between the warriers and the folks that don't generally want to consider war as an option...they make Jodie stop and consider what it takes to remain free.
Elites can be a pain for the rest of the troops & they're not immune to failure - but people NEED heros & watching the Angles, Thunderbirds, or some guy riding a parafoil with an American Flag is a real effective means of providing for that need.

467 posted on 04/21/2007 11:22:46 PM PDT by norton (DOL)

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