Two crew members who died when a U.S. Navy jet crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington state have been identified.
The Navy said Monday afternoon that both are from California: Lieutenant Commander Lyndsay P. Evans, a naval flight officer from Palmdale, and Lieutenant Serena N. Wileman, a naval aviator from Sacramento. Evans and Wileman were both 31 years old.
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DEI?
Left stuff, not the right stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe article doesn't sound like DEI to me: "She was first or second in her class, I think every single phase, which got her the ability to get assigned to the fighter jet category,"
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get that DEI had anything to do with it? The Military pushes it's personnel and equipment to the limit. That means some failures are inevitable.
Any pilot that says otherwise would have his career terminated at that moment. So it is difficult to say at this time. Would have been nice to see whatever planes they flown in order to get into that level of aircraft.
DeleteI especially like how they lower standards so women can pass. Deny it, I'll laugh at you.
DeleteYou don't believe the DEI affects scores given? That's an absolute necessity to get the equality that the left wants. They don't need to have separate rules for men and girls, just need to squint a bit when scoring the female contenders.
DeleteThis was bound to happen. How many times in the last couple of years have we heard about blue water ships running aground or into another ship when captained or being controlled by a woman.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Way too many
DeleteJD
I’ve flown military airdrop with some damn good airdrop female pilots. But these days and especially the woke ass squid woke navy?
ReplyDeleteI don't want to see any members of the United States Armed Forces harmed or killed under any circumstances, but this incident appears to be DEI chickens coming home to roost.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you send wimnez to do a mans job. Standards must be lowered, must be, and this is the result. I saw this shit while I was in. Very few wimnez will ever make the standard, very very few.
ReplyDelete"Wileman's determination and skill earned her a coveted assignment to fly the EA-18G Growler aircraft, a state-of-the-art electronic warfare and attack plane equipped with advanced sensors and reconnaissance equipment."
ReplyDeleteForgot to look up.
Evil Franklin
Pilot/chauffeur always looks up. The EWO's have their heads buried .
DeleteSMDH! Pray China never invades America.
ReplyDeleteIf the chinese invade, let us hope they go by way of the Mount Rainier volcano...
DeleteClearly, physics must be made more DEI-friendly. These stronk, independent, don't-need-no-man patriarchy killers are no match for the REAL Mac Daddy, gravity.
ReplyDeleteStarker here,
ReplyDeleteI'll withhold judgement until Ward Carroll posts a video on the crash. He presents facts, balanced with experience & has friends who are still active.
Ward Carrol largely tows the line of things deemed acceptable by the government.
DeleteNo-not DEI. Not in this case. Females have been fully integrated into combat jets for the past 30 years. Mishap rates are lower than they ever have been. These two were likely flying a purposefully aggressive training profile and sometimes these things happen. RIP.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree unless further investigation proves otherwise. I still remember when Dean Martin's son, a USAF F-4 driver, plowed his jet into the side of a mountain on a routine flight from Nellis AFB back to the LA area. These things happen. In another life, I flew little single-engine puddle jumpers. Aviation is very unforgiving. Bleib ubig.
Deletewomen drivers again
ReplyDeleteNone of y'all know what really happened - how can you pass judgment?
ReplyDeleteCause the standards are lower for da wimnez. Thats a fact.
DeleteAt this time most people are very emotional, patriotic, and sympathetic. That will all die down and be replaced with logic and objectivity. Do not be surprised when candidates who went thru the selection and training processes come out with a different story. As we all know, any witness to DEI or PC selection mistakes will have careers destroyed for telling the truth. Bet me.
ReplyDeleteSeveral versions of the press-release mention 'trail-blazing'.
ReplyDeleteDoes that happen any other time... besides crashing into a volcano disguised as a mountain range?
The morbidity rate of a sandwich maker is almost zero - just sayin'
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ReplyDeleteTwo things caused this, pilot error or something with the plane broke at a bad time. Could be both at the same time however, probably not. It always comes down to pilot error or maintenance of the aircraft. Had a few safety stand downs when I was in the Navy. It always came to the pilot or the maintenance, or bird strike, that can bring a plane down for sure.
ReplyDeleteHeltau
The official value of the aircraft was close to us$70,000,000 (seventy million fedbux).
ReplyDeleteUnofficially, after all the skim, its cost was probably twenty times that much.
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