Marine Corps aviators grounded amid investigation into phallic flight pattern
Source: CBS News
Two Marine Corps aviators have been grounded while they're being investigated "for flying a pattern resembling an obscene image" over Southern California, according to a military spokesman.
The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing said last month that a "T-34C aircraft assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, flew an irregular flight pattern over the Salton Sea that resembled a phallic image."
Now, the aircraft crew are not flying pending the results of an investigation, said Maj. Josef Patterson, a spokesman for the 3rd Marine Air Wing, ABC News reported.
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Alleged images showing the pattern were posted on Twitter on October 23. The user initially identified the plane as a Navy aircraft but later said it belonged to the Marine Corps.
Link to tweet
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marine-corps-aviators-grounded-phallic-flight-pattern/
Oooohhhhh K.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,547 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,547 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)trusty elf
(7,394 posts)I would hope that their superiors treat them genitally.
Polybius
(15,423 posts)From the cockpits?
calimary
(81,298 posts)My favorite is "I mean, not even a hint of peyronie's. That's talent."
CCExile
(469 posts)I scrotum a letter!
robersl
(83 posts)hard on them.
calimary
(81,298 posts)Barrump-bump!
Sometimes we're hard on ourselves, too...
metalbot
(1,058 posts)There's an extra level of humor to this in that many other branches of the service joke about the propensity for marines to draw genitalia on things as graffiti. I didn't know their aviators did it too!
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)First used by Fighter Ace Baron von Schwanz during WWI.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Thereafter known as the Enormous Schwanzstucker maneuver.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)"I see your schwartz is as big as mine!" -- Dark Helmet to Lone Star in Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)mitch96
(13,907 posts)Ist SCHWANTZ mein heir, nict schwartz... schwartz ist BLACK... Schwantz ist vell a schwantz!
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Silver1
(721 posts)I hope they don't get into too much trouble.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)marble falls
(57,097 posts)mn9driver
(4,426 posts)It spends most of its time below 12000 feet and would not have left any contrails, so the only trace of this would be the radar track.
I doubt they thought it would make the news.
JohnnyRingo
(18,635 posts)Wasting fuel seems like the biggest offense to me, and this is nothing.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)LOL!
Crowman2009
(2,497 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Cocky U.S. pilot draws penis in sky, but navy not amused
WASHINGTON/SPOKANE, WASHINGTON An air crew who used their U.S. Navy warplane to create a vulgar graffito in the sky above the town of Okanogan, Washington, have been grounded, the navy said Friday.
An electronic warfare plane from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island near Seattle drew the male genitals with its contrails on Thursday.
Many residents of the central Washington town of 2,500 people spotted the scrawl in the clear skies, and images of it immediately went viral on social media. A local television station said one mother in Okanogan County was concerned she might have to explain it to her young children.
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Cheeky AP headline writer, don't you think?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)maxrandb
(15,330 posts)because they've never seen one.
BTW - I met quite a few female pilots in the Navy. They never felt the need to draw a vulva in the sky.
Damn.. Vulva in the Sky would be a great name for a rock band.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)What's wrong with that?