Forget women in combat, now the Marine Corps is embracing full-scale Diversity:
A Marine captain who was dropped from the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet training pipeline in 2016 has been granted rare permission from the head of Marine Corps aviation to try again, following a report that revealed instructors and staff had acted unprofessionally and made racial jabs in a private chat group.
The pilot will report for training at Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101 in Miramar, California, next month, said Capt. Christopher Harrison, a Marine Corps spokesman. Military.com has previously spoken with the pilot under condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution; the publication will continue to honor that agreement….
“That dude was so bad. I can’t even comprehend how someone does not have the most basic level of self-awareness and realize he’s going to kill himself or someone else,” an instructor wrote of the Marine in the chat.
During training, the Marine had been responsible for one significant mishap, when he misunderstood an instructor’s order and ended up blowing the canopy off his F/A-18. For that, he said, he was pilloried in his unit, and the embarrassing incident was commemorated on class T-shirts with the slogan, “Once you pop, the fun don’t stop.”
This should end well. And it should totally convince everyone that Diversity Marine pilots are just as elite as Marines who have to actually avoid crashing their planes.