[MilCom] Blue Angel Pilot Trash-Talks the Florida Central-East Coast!
refmon
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Sat Apr 26 22:08:01 2003
I am always astounded and disappointed at the volume of interest in stupid
issues such as this. As my inbox fills with this crud, I'll allow myself to
get sucked in just this once. Regardless of your intent, regardless of your
interpretation of intricate legislation, regardless of your denial of the
utter uselessness of the posting, the fact is the audio clip was incredibly
boring, off target, and ripe for attack by some over-zealous self appointed
policeman. Just dump it and move on. I doubt "they" will spend millions on
crypto because of the posting..."they" will transition to crypto because it
is the long-term natural path for security reasons that have nothing to do
with you. The same security reasons that are responsible for the all those
faceless people held in secret. You've got a nice web site-keep it that
way-dump the file. In the off chance that this were to be the posting that
attracted some attention, all the self-righteousness in your entire life
wouldn't make the slightest difference.
And no, I don't post to this list...I don't find my monitoring of any use
when compared to the constructive postings on this list.
John Collins
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----- Original Message -----
From: "GeorgeF." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 05:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] Blue Angel Pilot Trash-Talks the Florida Central-East
Coast!
At 11:55 PM 4/26/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I am curious as to how many people actually listened to this audio bite. I
>listened, and I think this has been all blown out of proportion. I did not
>hear anything offensive at all on there. Whoever said it could have made
>the papers obviously did NOT listen. Nothing on there in my opinion could
>have made the newspaper on a slow
>day. Jim
To answer your question, as of 2019 hrs EDT 834 unique IP addresses
accessed the file.
You're right a lot of people did blow this out of proportion. A lot of
people think I posted it in order to humiliate the Blue Angels. A Lot of
people think I was hurt by what the pilot said about the area. And ALL
these people were DEAD WRONG!
Get Your Facts Straight People:
1) I did not do this to humiliate the Blue Angels. It was posted
because it was a very interesting communication and based on the positive
email I received many agreed.
2) I was not hurt by what the pilot said. In fact (this is the 4th
time I've said this) I am in 100% agreement with the comments made by the
pilot. I live in Florida and couldn't agree more. The water he was
flying over is a very unpleasing shade of brown. The area he was flying
over at the time for the most part is pretty trashy.
What my point was that I thought it was very unprofessional for a pilot
representing the United States of America by being a Blue Angel pilot
making such comments about an area where he will be performing. These
people he just "put down" have spent a great amount of money in the form of
Tax dollars in order to finance that multi-million F-18 in which he flies
in. A Blue Angel pilot is held (by their own ethics) to a higher level
of professionalism then a "typical" fighter pilot. It's not being
politically correct, its more about professionalism and respect for the
people who finance your multi-million dollar ride. Just remember what
every Blue says during their de-breif "Glad to be here Boss". It didn't
sound like he was "glad to be here"...
Again, my grip was with the pilot, not with the Blues in general. And
again he was right, he was in the middle of a trashy redneck area.
George
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