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| Capt. Jahmar F. Resilard died to promote inclusion |
As a post-military superpower, the USA is now incapable of fighting real wars. Nevertheless it is still important for it to pretend to be a major military power. Especially as the Military Industrial Complex is making a killing on overpriced and inefficient equipment.
Also, as a country fully committed to racial, sexual, and transgender equality, it is also vital for the US to be as "inclusive" and "diverse" as possible in its military, even if this means appointing and promoting people beyond their purely individual talents.
In fact, this goal is so important that it doesn't really matter if a large number of accidents, many of them fatal, are the result, because to not push inclusion would simply be "racist," "sexist," and "homophobic," which we can't have, rite?
Luckily the U.S. military cannot be called any of these nasty words once again after six U.S. Marine aircrew died in an horrific air accident off Japan, when an F/A 18 Hornet fighter jet crashed into a KC-130 refueling plane. It appears that the Hornet was piloted by an heroic African American pilot, Capt. Jahmar F. Resilard, who was doing his best to bring more equality and diversity into the service.
As reported by the Washington Post:
TOKYO — The U.S. military has ended search operations for five missing Marine airmen involved in an accident off the coast of Japan five days ago, declaring all of them dead.
Two Marines were rescued from the ocean after an F/A 18 Hornet fighter and a KC-130 refueling plane collided at 2 a.m. local time on Thursday, with one subsequently declared dead. The latest news brings the death toll from the accident to six.
“Every possible effort was made to recover our crew and I hope the families of these selfless Americans will find comfort in the incredible efforts made by U.S., Japanese, and Australian forces during the search,” Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a statement.
The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Forces and its Coast Guard were among the forces that rushed to the scene of the crash off the Japanese coast...
The two Marines from the Hornet fighter were found in the ocean, but one had spent more than 10 hours in the water and was later declared dead. He was named last week as Capt. Jahmar F. Resilard, 28, a pilot with the Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, stationed on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in southern Japan.
There are obvious parallels here with the crash of the USS Fitzgerald last year. This was a $1.5 billion dollar US Navy ship that was totalled in an accident that was apparently caused by a "catfight" between two lady officers being in charge of the ship at the vital moment. That was also near Japan.
Seven died, dozens were injured, and the repair costs were around $500 million.
In this latest case, it is also great that the U.S. military has now found a "politically acceptable" excuse for these kind of "inclusivity accidents" as we see in the Post article:
It has...added to a growing list of accidents involving U.S. military planes all over the world, raising concerns that budget cuts, 17 years of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, and the cost of maintaining a fleet of aging aircraft have fatally undermined safety.
Yeh, bigot, you see you're endangering lives by not spending enough money on the military, so cough up.
Nothing to do with promoting women, minorities, and gays beyond their individual abilities in a sector that has always been dominated by cisgendered White males. These accidents are just happening because you're such a skinflint. OK?
Just think about it -- the Chinese military which spends only a THIRD of what the US spends, despite having more personnel, must be dropping like flies because of accidents due to underfunding. But, strangely enough, these accidents seem to be just happening to Americans.
Don't forget Kara Hultgreen.
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