The single most USMC story ever told!!!
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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.
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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