Now if only there were crayons involved…
Sirhr
The single most USMC story ever told!!!
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Now if only there were crayons involved…
Sirhr
I certainly hope the "higher ranking officer" was relieved of duty and fined a substantial amount, if not all, of his retirement. What a fuckin retard...mattresses.
Pilot, too. WTF...
I'd go a but further to include the numb nuts NCO's that followed that unreasonable order and not enforcing policy, regulation and SOP. Everyone involved should be busted to E1 day one.
That jet must have not been near out of fuel for these dipshits to have time to gather some mattresses and belt them together.
Pilot, too. WTF...
I'd go a but further to include the numb nuts NCO's that followed that unreasonable order and not enforcing policy, regulation and SOP. Everyone involved should be busted to E1 day one.
That jet must have not been near out of fuel for these dipshits to have time to gather some mattresses and belt them together.
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Improvise, overcome and adapt, even when it's not needed
Improvise, overcome and adapt, even when it's not needed
I thought they'd already figured this one out?
Physic is a bitch, but being a college educated, high ranking, dumbass, who knows nothing about physics, is ever more of a bitch. 
Sometimes you have delt with a lot of BS from certain people in charge that think they know more than they do. So you follow orders to teach them a lesson.
So, this "event" is only Facebook true... meaning I doubt it ever happened. There are no media outlets reporting any story that a Google search pulled up. HOWEVER, the exact same story was reported on Facebook two months ago as well. I'm not saying it isn't true, I'm just saying it doesn't pass the sniff test.
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This event would require an 'OPREP-3/SIR' (Serious Incident Report) to be generated and sent to the Marine Corps Operation Center in DC. Those reports are compiled and sent out daily to about 170 generals and a few senior enlisted personnel, who will review each of the incidents.
For a loss of an aircraft (which I'm assuming would essentially be the case here), the Director of Aviation (3-star) is going to have to brief the Commandant of the Marine Corps... So there's a LtGen who'd be somewhat embarrassed between having to explain these events to the CMC, as well as have his dirty laundry aired out in front of his peers and subordinate commanders.
And as we all know what runs downhill...
I would have expected a follow-up story about a commander being relieved, even all the way down at the O-5 level. The news agencies, and especially the Marine Corps Times publishes all of those stories.
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This event would require an 'OPREP-3/SIR' (Serious Incident Report) to be generated and sent to the Marine Corps Operation Center in DC. Those reports are compiled and sent out daily to about 170 generals and a few senior enlisted personnel, who will review each of the incidents.
For a loss of an aircraft (which I'm assuming would essentially be the case here), the Director of Aviation (3-star) is going to have to brief the Commandant of the Marine Corps... So there's a LtGen who'd be somewhat embarrassed between having to explain these events to the CMC, as well as have his dirty laundry aired out in front of his peers and subordinate commanders.
And as we all know what runs downhill...
I would have expected a follow-up story about a commander being relieved, even all the way down at the O-5 level. The news agencies, and especially the Marine Corps Times publishes all of those stories.
The earliest mention of the incident that I could find goes back to 2007. It periodically showed up in 2014, 2018, 2021... It seems legit.
Wheels-up Harrier landing
Ouch! What are the chances that this one will ever fly again?
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"Malicious Compliance" doing what you are told when you know damn well how its gonna go.
"Oh shit, you did it just like I told you."
This one? Allegedly, a rigger cut the straps deliberately and was later court martialed.
If the story is true. It's on the pilot to ignore an order that is not in the protocols. Once all the protocols for resolving the issue are done by the book and they didn't resolve the issue then it's onto trying something on the fly. The pilots health and life are on the line. Not some desk jockey in the tower. Standing in front of the Old Man for disobedience because you were told to ignore proven tactics? I'd like to see that write-up.
My son in law recently was on the aircraft emergency crew at Cherry Point. He just told me the mattress thing is absolutely true and in fact standard procedure when the front landing gear stuck on a Harrier. He said they used to joke when they had a problem... "go get the mattresses".
We had a Cobra rip its skids off in Egypt in ‘01, hot dogging too low over a ridge. Flights deck crew rigged up some missile racks with mattresses, deck bubbas with big balls guided them while the AH-1W hovered and landed with them onto the weapons pylons. Pilot and gunner relieved and grounded.
Some more incidents a couple months later in Afghanistan, the squadron commander was relieved and replaced by a full bird. Heads rolled and careers were ended, all pilots went back to “flying 101” was the word we got on the grunt side.
Having seen the down blast from Harriers often, even my crayon eating grunt self knows it would never end well trying that trick with a “North Carolina Lawn Dart”.
Some more incidents a couple months later in Afghanistan, the squadron commander was relieved and replaced by a full bird. Heads rolled and careers were ended, all pilots went back to “flying 101” was the word we got on the grunt side.
Having seen the down blast from Harriers often, even my crayon eating grunt self knows it would never end well trying that trick with a “North Carolina Lawn Dart”.
It just seems to me if the gear fails to extend properly, the easiest way to solve the need to land would be to set it down in the grass
Yeah, you'll FOD out the engines, but the harm to the airframe should be minimal to zero.
Mattress harm will come later in the barracks...
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