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Originally Posted by Jimmy
Or you can take a realistic view of it. It happens. We take the lessons learned, and do our best to apply them to ensure that it doesnt happen AGAIN. When some guy in the cockpit decides he knows better, we have another occurrence. So what do we do? We figure out what caused the problem and AGAIN we tell everyone to follow procedures. Do you have a better solution? There's no systematic fault here, unless you count having a human in the cockpit a systematic fault.
I didnt say they train to it. I said they plan on it. The Army does not make a large issue when some private sticks his head up too high in a live-fire, or gets run over by a tank. Maybe his squad leader gets in deep **** for not training him properly. There's no systematic review of the entire exercise, putting it on hold until the cause is sorted out. You can take your interservice rivalry and shove it. There's a time and a place, and the best of both is when there's beer in the room.
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Guy's been a first-class dick since I've been here, man. Tried to bury the hatchet awhile back, but he's a High Holy Jarhead Ass-bite, and is just in love with his contrarian/curmudgeon self-image, so anytime he gets the chance to start in about Marines being so very much better than, well, EVERYbody, he jumps on it.
He's probably the father of that young Marine that told my buddy that even though they were two pay-grades apart, he didn't have to do what he said, because he wasn't a MARINE NCO, just an Air Force guy. He said that's what they taught him at Parris Island.