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'Stand Down': Marine Corps Issues New Order As Search for Missing F-35 Continues
Townhall ^
| September 18.2023
| Spencer Brown
Posted on 09/18/2023 5:01:43 PM PDT by iontheball
Calling the case of a still-missing F-35 jet a "mishap" may be one of the greater understatements made by a U.S. government entity in recent memory, but the Marine Corps announced Monday afternoon that it was taking rather drastic action as the search continues for their runaway aircraft.
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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: marines; standdown
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What's going on here? First, the pilot pulls the ejection lever while it appears he/she is at flight altitude on autopilot. Doesn't sound like an emergency to me. Second, why didn't the pilot's wingman follow the pilotless plane? While the Marines lost three ospreys in Australia recently, it doesn't explain why they needed to do a Marine Corps-wide two-day stand-down of all their aircraft. Did the pilot see something ahead of him/her that caused him/her to go into immediate ejection mode?
To: iontheball
Keep em busy! We bout got the camo nets up.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:03:05 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: iontheball
DOD wide police calls and FOD walks @0500 untill it’s found!
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:06:31 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: iontheball
A safety down day is a typical, almost obligatory, response to an accident/incident that occurs during peace time.
I think you would see a similar response in the other services.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:09:06 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: iontheball
Jeez just use the “Find My Jet” app!
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:09:51 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Q)
To: iontheball
Sounds to me that the “mishap” was a lack of guts.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:12:01 PM PDT
by
Retain Mike
( Sat Cong)
To: Delta 21
Phuck those FOD walks. El Toro and Tustin had that stuff in spades. Tustin was worse cuz of all us whirly-birds dusting it up every t.o.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:30:40 PM PDT
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: billorites
Safety down-days were usually reserved for known or suspected system-wide faults in maintenance or parts quality back in my MCAS Tustin days. OE mishaps would see one or more getting kicked down the road, so to speak..
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:34:20 PM PDT
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: iontheball
It had a transponder....?!?!
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:36:51 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: iontheball
Aliens snagged it with a tractor beam
To: iontheball
Did the pilot see something ahead of him/her that caused him/her to go into immediate ejection mode?
........................................
Maybe air traffic control used the wrong pronouns.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:50:01 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: iontheball
Squadron still not named.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:56:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
To: Palio di Siena
We’re gonna have to recover the video from the wing cameras.
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posted on
09/18/2023 6:11:27 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
The cia will send Your copy as soon as they finish editing it.
My prediction is that they will say it was the center fuel tank.
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posted on
09/18/2023 6:39:06 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: iontheball
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posted on
09/18/2023 6:59:13 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
09/18/2023 7:07:24 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: null and void
Gotta be:
Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 (VMFAT-501) is a training squadron in the United States Marine Corps, consisting of 27 F-35B Lightning II aircraft and serves as the Fleet Replacement Squadron. Known as the “Warlords,” the squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina
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posted on
09/18/2023 7:15:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
To: Palio di Siena
Ah, the old MH-370 Swamp Gas.
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posted on
09/18/2023 7:56:00 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: iontheball
Very strange that this happened over south Carolina not too far from where the air force shut down the Chinese balloon, which was also in the area of South Carolina
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posted on
09/18/2023 8:00:10 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(America has died we are living in the united socialist states of aMeriKa)
To: iontheball
Debris field is already located.
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posted on
09/18/2023 8:01:45 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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