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Navy Pilot Who Shot Down U.S. Plane Makes Admiral

 
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:35 pm    Post subject: Navy Pilot Who Shot Down U.S. Plane Makes Admiral Reply with quote

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Navy Pilot Who Shot Down U.S. Plane Makes Admiral!!!
By Mark Thompson
Battleland blogs - Time magazine

...And you thought McHale’s Navy was canceled back in 1966.

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Later, Dorsey reflected on the day`s events. “Under no circumstances do I consider myself trigger-happy,” he said.

“If called upon to do so, I've been trained to react decisively and smartly. In this most unfortunate mishap, I believe that I indeed reacted decisively and, at the time, with the information I had received and interpreted, believed I was acting smartly.

“If flying tomorrow, I`d have a heck of a lot more things I`d do differently.”

But Dorsey won`t get that chance. The Navy ruled that he will be allowed to keep his pilot wings, but he never again will be allowed to fly a Navy aircraft.






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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Classic SNAFU?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Next thing you know, the Army will start making men wear "pregnancy simulator gear" when they take PT so they can be more
"sensitive" to the discomfort pregnant women endure ....

oh, wait, they already did!!!



What's next? Make them put their crotches in a vise and clamp it down to show them how it feels to have a mammogram?

...meanwhile, our enemies are gearing up for WAR!

...I believe it was the Iron Duke (Wellington) who said of his soldiers at Waterloo:
“I don’t know if they frighten the enemy, but they scare the Hell out of me.”


...meanwhile, back at the ranch...



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It also probably didn’t hurt his career, the paper’s Rowan Scarborough notes, that his father, James Dorsey, was the skipper of the aircraft carrier USS America, and himself an aviator, at the time of the shootdown.
Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/17/navy-pilot-who-shot-down-u-s-plane-makes-admiral/#ixzz1n81dsWLM


Un. Be. Lievable.

The Admiral-select is declining comment.

You don't say..... Rolling Eyes
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