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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
MSgt,
Then there are those like Maj Harry Schmitt who to this day cannot admit he did wrong. I don't know whether that is a self-defence mechanism so that he could live with himself or actual arrogance. And I am not about to start on a man who has to live with demons for the rest of his life. The man threw up after learning he killed Canadians.
Still, while his mistakes are understandable, they should not have occurred. He did not check his data the 1st time around, never mind checking them the 4th time as you indicated.
I cannot say I'm sorry that he lost his flight status because of the incident. He gets to go home to his wife everyday. Four families will never see their loved ones again. But I do hope that he teaches his lesson to everyone he can.
And I do hope that God will guide him through his demons.
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I agree with everything in that post.
I saw a guy pass out on a watch floor once, because he passed the wrong code groups to a recon mission going along an East China Sea route, and he thought he'd just ordered the mission to abort. Wouldn't have killed anybody if he had (he'd actually sent a dummy group; not a Good Thing, and it definitely got him fired, but not a LETHAL thing, either), but the pressure is so immense that when something Not Perfect has just happened, and it's your fault, baby, it seems like the whole Earth is riding on your shoulders.
It's a miracle that we don't all look like we're 100 years old by the time we retire.
