[JRandomFreeper]

Why didn't the U2 declare MARSA and leave ATC out of it?

That's what we were taught to do at culinary school.

/johnny

[Repeal The 17th]

...culinary school is just so incredibly comprehensive...

“I graduated from Yale”
Oh? Really?
“Well, probably not the one you are thinking of,
I went to locksmith school.”

My cousin flunked out of dairy science.
He was an utter failure.

[Mark17]

Why didn't the U2 declare MARSA and leave ATC out of it?

I don't think MARSA would apply. That would be more for such things, as B-52s launching only seconds apart.