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Ex-Blue Angels leader (TRUNCATED) gets a 'career-ending' letter of reprimand
Daily Mail ^ | 4 June 2014 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 06/04/2014 1:44:10 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel

Full Title: "Ex-Blue Angels leader who did nothing to stop sexual remarks and porn in the workplace gets a 'career-ending' letter of reprimand".

A former Blue Angels commander tolerated inappropriate sexual comments and naked pictures in the cockpits of the team's planes during his time as its leader, the Navy said Tuesday. (snip) The Navy said his command had explicit pornography, including photos of naked women, in aircraft cockpits; the painting of giant male genitalia in blue and gold on the roof of the center point trailer at the Blue Angels' winter training facilities in El Centro; and sexually charged, raunchy, and homophobic humor on maps and itineraries.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: blueangels; captgregorymcwherter; doublestandard; gaymilitary; gregorymcwherter; navy; regorymcwherter; subversion; witchhunt
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I searched and couldn't find where this particular article had been posted. It has more detail than the LA Times or other articles.

Also, a check of Google Earth shows only the Blue Angels' shield painted on the hangar roof (not the other explicit paintings as alleged in the article).

1 posted on 06/04/2014 1:44:10 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel
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To: Fast Moving Angel
Probably meant ceiling.

None of this is surprising. It is SOP for flag officers.

2 posted on 06/04/2014 1:45:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

so what gay was offended the pilots liked women more?


3 posted on 06/04/2014 1:46:34 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Fast Moving Angel

This is today’s military (severe barf warning):

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=753058391383889&fref=nf


4 posted on 06/04/2014 1:47:39 PM PDT by IChing
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To: blueplum

It was a woman who was offended. And she took down a really good man by all reports except this ONE.


5 posted on 06/04/2014 1:48:24 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: IChing

This is the most disturbing thing I have ever watched, I was hoping it was a gag, staged....these are United States marines!!!!?? To an extent, I get the Islamic beheading vídeos, but I just don’t get this...our military has been completely pussified!!!! In my day these fags would have gotten the sh*t beaten out of them if they acted like this watching some girly kiddie cartoon!!!!! Wtf???!!


6 posted on 06/04/2014 1:49:23 PM PDT by IChing
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To: Fast Moving Angel
Lurking under this title:

Naked photos in aircraft cited in Navy probe

7 posted on 06/04/2014 1:49:41 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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so what gay was offended the pilots liked women more?

Doesn't say -- but apparently all this arose out of the filing of a single complaint in March. So a single complaint has the power to bring a warrior like him down.

As a side note, he was also president of the Tailhook Association.

8 posted on 06/04/2014 1:50:21 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

pictures of squack and dirty jokes. BDD


9 posted on 06/04/2014 1:50:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Ha! They should have seen the Harbor Patrol electrical shop in Danang, RVN in 1968. It was wall to wall Playboy foldouts. I’d have loved getting a “career-ending” letter.


10 posted on 06/04/2014 1:50:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa (Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation)
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To: Ezekiel

That God this wasn’t the norm in WWII or we’d all be speaking German now.


11 posted on 06/04/2014 1:51:35 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: Ezekiel

Thanks ... similar article, but there are better photos at the Daily Mail article :-)


12 posted on 06/04/2014 1:52:05 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: petitfour

I guarantee you the way this worked was somebody was screwing around and got caught, then tried to deflect blame by bringing up all this history. What the Navy did was take down an exceptional officer and pilot and get to discredit Naval Aviation again on charges that are totally blown out of proportion.


13 posted on 06/04/2014 1:52:43 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

homophomic humor - (don’t make fun of the fags, it will hurt their feelings)


14 posted on 06/04/2014 1:53:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Well they are called cockpits aren’t they? (I am referring to the area of the plane where the pilot sits, of course)


15 posted on 06/04/2014 1:53:49 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (I never thought anyone could make Jimmy Carter look good in comparisons)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

The United States will never win another war again with these guys running it.

16 posted on 06/04/2014 1:53:57 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Once again we have to go to a foreign News source to find out facts about what is going on in this country. Kudos to The Daily Mail.


17 posted on 06/04/2014 1:54:16 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: IChing

Severe barf warning is right. Please tell me all that was a setup.


18 posted on 06/04/2014 1:54:33 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

He’ll land on his feet. Since the USA doesn’t want him, the Chinese and Russian navies need good consultants...


19 posted on 06/04/2014 1:55:23 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: USNBandit

I have no idea. I have read it was a woman with a vendetta for who knows what reason. She waited more than a year to accuse Captain McWherter. People who were there and know her want to know why. It is a terrible thing.


20 posted on 06/04/2014 1:56:25 PM PDT by petitfour
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