No F-15C gay jokes?

 

27 years after the infamous Kadena incident, our commander in chief discusses the rights of transgender military service members...

The joke seems a little less funny now, doesn't it? What was illegal and socially taboo is now espoused and celebrated. If I say that makes me puke in my mouth a bit then I am labeled a hater or a homophobe...

Bring back the days before DADT, and when calling someone a queer was an insult. Kind of hard to feel bad taking **** from a Viper driver when we have openly gay squadron commanders and transgender folks all over the military trying to drive the agenda. Those barbs and jokes seem a little passe to me anymore...

 

I was a FAIP with him. We all thought he was a little odd. A "little." Were we off the mark.

The thought at the time was that he was going on base to kill the guys who washed him out of eagles. Was that ever determined to be true? I thought he actually was on base when caught.

 

You know his name...check out FB. He's there. Doesn't indicate if he is IN or OUT of jail, and lots of pictures of planes and USAFA stuff. Its been 10 years...he might have been let out. I just don't know.

I do know a couple of pilots who I've worked with over the years that went off the deep end. I do think the constant pressure to make it in a fighter squadron can be excruciating. I don't know if he was predisposed to this, or if he simply could not accept "failure" (and I don't thinking washing out of FTU makes anyone a failure...) and this pushed him over. I flew with him, but don't remember busting him. He went DNIF for a while when he hit the wall, then came back and was on CAP and was not on my continuity. I do know the DO, who was a WIC IP, was one of the the guys...and that same IP helped me in IPUG in my ops days. He wasn't a cuddly IP, but he was damn good...and more than fair. It was a clean kill when he was eliminated, and the fact he went on to fly a bomber with a nuke doc should have indicated we thought he could still be valuable as an officer and warfighter.

 

Thanks again to all the replies and helpful information. I'll invest in some good interview prep and send out my apps. We'll see what happens, it's worth a shot.