They were grounded, doing some desk duty and some crappy hanger inspections like broom closet inventory, smoking area clean-up or something equally silly and pointless. The only west coast airedale I know is with a VQ squadron at Lemoore, I'll see if I can get some straight dope on what he pilots had to do for punishment. They should be back in the air by now. Flight profficiency (and pay) is based on a required number of hours in the air per month (traps and cat-shots from a nearby carrier too if one's available). Doesn't matter how annoyed someone is with a flight crew, benching them for too long costs too much money to make up the training time.
Honestly though, I can predict the squadron CO probably looked at both of them, facepalmed and said something along the lines of "If I ain't already got enough crap to deal with..." (edited for content)
Looked like an Arby's hat to me.... :shrug:
Honestly though, I can predict the squadron CO probably looked at both of them, facepalmed and said something along the lines of "If I ain't already got enough crap to deal with..." (edited for content)
Looked like an Arby's hat to me.... :shrug:
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