I don’t think under these circumstances that the family is entitled to privacy. And certainly the dead pilot now has no “privacy” rights. All the crew members became public figures, like it or not, when their helicopter slammed into the side of a plane. I think the public is entitled to know it. Maybe it can be obtained under FOIA, but the problem with that statute is there’s no deadline for release of information (last time I looked).
And —so what if it turns out the 3 on this helicopter were straight white males (oh and not retarded, psychotic, nor vision-impaired, which are other criteria the Bygone Admin was seeking to promote)?
There’s still the problem of a shortage of personnel due to the military encouraging enlistment of incompetents and the traffic controllers having a severe shortage of personnel due to DEI policies.
I read online that the third helicopter pilot was female and had 500 hours of flight experience. The two male pilots had over 1000 hours. But I have not verified.
There is a clear pattern of what is and is not reported by the official state propagandists. One must often read the “news” by its negative afterimage (look this up - it is a fascinating and pretty well-understood visual mechanism in human visual physiology). In effect, it says additional information can be found in what is seen by what is not seen and from what is perceived in the time course following the immediate visual sensation.
Withholding the identity of the third crew member makes it more than likely that it is a member of a protected class. My vote is for tranny but time will tell. Heterosexual, white male is the least unlikely.
This is reminiscent of that incident a few years back where a Navy pilot failed to land on the carrier and dumped her rather expensive F-35 into the water. One had to dig deep to find out that the pilot was female.
The real guilty parties here are the worthless generals & admirals who push individuals into roles for which they are not yet ready, simply to demonstrate their Far Leftie credentials. To modify that old joke about lawyers – What would we call a boatload of 40 Admirals at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!
One extrapolate isolated incidents to infer that the pilot’s sex was causative. However, it is telling that the identity of these individuals is withheld. One wonders how many such cases there are, especially in the context of the relative proportions of male & females in these positions. A similar issue exists regarding the identification of the identity of criminal perpetrators or, in reverse, the identity of police shooters. The case of Ashli Babbitt comes to mind.
Wholeheartedly agree with both sentiments. I don’t have direct experience with what happens in the military. What I do have first-hand experience of is capable women being accelerated into senior positions for which they do not yet have sufficient experience – and then performing badly or outright failing. Not good for the business; not good for those women.
Let me stress – the problem was not with those women. The problem was with individuals higher up the management chain who wanted to tick the appropriate boxes on their own career advancement by promoting a woman (or better yet a woman of color, or best of all a lesbian woman of color).
The Army captain had more than 450 hours of flight time under her belt at the time of the tragedy — and had earned certification as a pilot-in-command under the guidance of the “most senior and experienced pilots in her battalion,” according to her family.
How the Blackhawk crashed into the American Airliner jet — making for the worst airplane disaster in decades — is still a mystery.
The other two soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter have been identified as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, and Staff. Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia.
A couple comments said that 450 hours is low for someone in her rank and position as captain and certified pilot in command.