[MilCom] Blue Angel Pilot Trash-Talks the Florida Central-East Coast!
Tom M.
[email protected]
Sun Apr 27 09:20:01 2003
George:
When a guy at my office screws up, I pull him aside and coach him. I don't
send a note to the whole office. This is what the Blue's pilot needed, not a
public flogging.
We seem to be at a three way conflicting mission here.
- The mission of the milcomers is to hear stuff as a hobby.
- The mission of the Blues is PR for the Navy, and this guy screwed up and
needs coaching.
- Your mission is to get web hits.
Thus the three way conflict.
We'll never settle the argument as to what is the right thing to do as we're
all on our own conflicting missions.
My mission prevents me from posting embarassing comms, yours support it.
You have the right to do what you did. It just doesn't help the other missions
but you got a lot of hits (congrats).
The Blue guy may have the right to say what he said, but it was against his
mission and he should have his ass handed to him in private.
My $.02.
Tom
--- "GeorgeF." <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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