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Air Force Thunderbirds too male, too white, top general warns
Washington Times ^ | March 3, 2106 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 03/04/2016 5:52:40 PM PST by bkopto

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To: heavy9

“aircraft are very unforgiving///you need the very best”

Well, I know there’s currently plenty of Muslims in our country taking flight lessons...


41 posted on 03/04/2016 6:10:40 PM PST by JPJones
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To: Farmer Dean

Sure go ahead, let a less qualified affirmative action candidate fly a $100M plane into the ground. Why not?


42 posted on 03/04/2016 6:11:26 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: bkopto

I think they have a point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_Thunderbirds


43 posted on 03/04/2016 6:11:32 PM PST by BobL (A vote for Cruz is now...is a vote for Romney (at the convention))
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To: bkopto

I am going on an old memory. Wasn’t there a Black member of the Thunderbirds who had the gumption to take himself out of the group? He did not think his flying skills were up to the job?


44 posted on 03/04/2016 6:12:40 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: bkopto

Fire this SOB commander who’s “”short”” on sense ...... you form that team with the BEST not to please some pandering polidiot who wants to promote an agenda with bell curves turned into lines, loops, rolls, spins, and hammerheads.......

Damn ....


45 posted on 03/04/2016 6:13:18 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: soycd

We’ll put the basketball players in the jets and the pilots on the court and if the pilots can’t play, disappear them. If the players can’t fly, that’s due to white privilege, promote them.


46 posted on 03/04/2016 6:13:38 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: bkopto

The T Birds will never be right until one of the pilots has Downs Syndrome.


47 posted on 03/04/2016 6:13:51 PM PST by lurk
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To: bkopto

Whatever happened to “striving for excellence” in the USA? We have turned into a less than mediocre nation. Considering what has been done with all the blessings and freedoms we have received from the Lord, I don’t know how much more He is going to allow. “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:28


48 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:06 PM PST by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: bkopto

Brig. Gen. Chris Short

49 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:15 PM PST by gaijin
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To: lurk

IOW, forget about applying if you are a white male.


50 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:48 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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51 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:53 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: dfwgator

zactly!

Mothers too female!


52 posted on 03/04/2016 6:17:03 PM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: bkopto

Because that’s whats important

Not that whole precision flying thingy


53 posted on 03/04/2016 6:17:10 PM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: bkopto

Get rid of this PC “General”.


54 posted on 03/04/2016 6:19:00 PM PST by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: bkopto

Brig. Gen. Christopher M. Short should just pick some gay Negro women and order ‘em into the cockpit of half the birds, then order a full blown show over the downtown of a major American liberal city, and sit back in the grandstand to rake in the congratulations.


55 posted on 03/04/2016 6:19:19 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He seems to have a pecunary interest in the matter..


56 posted on 03/04/2016 6:23:16 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: gaijin

Gay.


57 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:24 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: yarddog

That episode involved the Blues - a naval aviator who happened to be black was slotted as CO and, greatly to his credit, took himself out of the position due to his own view that his flying skills were not up to his duties. It was a good call and, IIRCC, carried out in a mature and professional manner in the best traditions of the naval services.


58 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:26 PM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
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To: blackdog

I hope the general needs an ambulance post haste someday, but the ambulance company is run like the DMV, with all the diversity and indolence we expect from the DMV.

He can die satisfied and content in the knowledge that the incompetent dullards that let him die “didn’t look like (him)”.


59 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:48 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: nascarnation

Not guilty anyway.


60 posted on 03/04/2016 6:25:29 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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