Lockheed F-35 gets first female pilot: Air Force

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lieutenant Colonel Christine Mau, a U.S. Air Force pilot who was part of the first all-female combat sortie over Afghanistan in 2011, this week became the first woman to fly the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 jet, the Air Force said on Wednesday.

Mau, deputy commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing Operations Group, on Tuesday completed her first training flight in the single-seat stealth fighter after 14 virtual training missions in a simulator, said spokeswoman Lieutenant Hope Cronin.

Mau joined 87 F-35A pilots who have been trained over the last four years at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

"It felt great to get airborne. The jet flies like a dream, and seeing the systems interact is impressive," Mau said in a statement.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/lockheed-f-35-gets-first-female-pilot-air-010549411--finance.html

[FairWinds]

1. Cost to the taxpayers . .

$ 1.5 trillion.

Col. Mau and the other assorted pilots and profiteers are bankrupting the country.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101883138

As Ike pointed out, this is a CRIME.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. Col. Mau did not propose, fund, or build the F-35. Why blast her?

[Gumboot]

2. Biggest military boondoggle ever.

Overpriced, overweight, and unrelaible. Another hanger queen just like the B-1.

But what a winning scam for Lockheed Martin and its lobbyists.

[McKim]

3. Giving Women a Bad Name

How very sad, a woman flying a fighter jet for Lockeed. Are these Womens' Values?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. "Women's Good Name" has survived worse ...

... from an astronaut, not merely a fighter pilot.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/baltimore-unrest/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-under-fire-giving-space-destroy-baltimore-n349656

[liam_laddie]

5. But...did she land it?

IOW was the flight a success? or
With this boondoggle, ya never know...

[FairWinds]

7. It is indeed tragic that such brave and talented people wind up . .

working for the war machine. I was one of them too.

But just to be clear, Ike did call us to account . .

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

So no, saying she's "just doing her job" does not get it.

Veterans For Peace

[EX500rider]

8. Right, 'cause we be MUCH safer with no military at all....

.....China & Russia & North Korea etc wouldn't take ANY advantage of that...lol

[FairWinds]

9. Take it up with Ike . .

[EX500rider]

10. Ike was in no way wanting to disband the US military...

For example see:

NSC 162/2
The United States National Security Council document NSC 162/2 of 30 October 1953 defined Cold War policy during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration – the New Look national security policy. NSC 162/2 stated that the United States needs to maintain "a strong military posture, with emphasis on the capability of inflicting massive retaliatory damage by offensive striking power", and that the United States "will consider nuclear weapons as available for use as other munitions."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC_162/2

[FairWinds]

11. Really, stop making crap up . .

You are being deliberately deceptive using the old straw man trick.

NO WHERE DID I CALL FOR ABOLISHING THE US MILITARY.

For your utter disregard of the principles of fair discussion,
you richly deserve to be flicked from the forum.

[EX500rider]

12. So you didn't say: "So no, saying she's "just doing her job" does not get it."

How do you expect to have a military if no one works there?
Because in fact she was just doing her job...


And lets all be thankful you are in no way in charge of who gets "flicked from the forum".

[FairWinds]

15. As the other posters noted . .

more blatant dishonesty. As someone asked even more
innuendo fond Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy one time,
"Have you no shame?"

And by the way, the F-35 program is going to cost every
American family close to $ 20,000 - just for that one
bat-shit crazy weapon. If you like it so much, how about
if you pay my family's share as well as your's?

Apparently, you are just fine with that - not being able
to grasp Ike's point at all.

[EX500rider]

16. You can be fine with the Air Force having pilots and still think the F-35 costs too much

[candelista]

14. -1.

Who said anything about disbanding the military?

[candelista]

13. +1.

Interesting post.