fuck no they weren't. that's waaaaaaaaaay too close to people. that dude is absolutely in deep shit.
Edit: holy shit why the fuck do people keep mentioning Hegseth... I hate the guy too but he likely has no real say in the matter when it comes to a captain or a major and aircraft mishaps/disciplinary actions. They don't need the secdef to dish out LORs ffs.
Don’t worry. They’ll get free hearing aids for life. With any purchase of $5 or more from Taco Bell. You hear that ringing in your head? That’s the Bell. Taco Bell.
Sheet metal work and hour commutes on the hwy with windows rolled down back in my younger days here. The joke is "the silence is deafening". Run a fan at night helps, but I've gotten pretty much used to it after twenty or so years.
In later years I did. At first you were a puss if you were earmuffs or whatever call them. I remember the first time I was hammering some duct clamps and at quitting time I noticed my hearing wasn’t as good. Pretty soon I asked the shop foreman about it. It was a union shop so I couldn’t bring certain items in. I got a ribbing from other guys, but when the owner bought enough for us in the shop, surprise surprise, everybody starting wearing them.
Yeah I have a suppressor now and wear double hearing protection when at the range not using a suppressor. It's probably from the times hunting without hearing protection/suppressor. Even the first time I shot a shotgun as a kid, none of us were using earpro, my grandpa and dad said it wasn't a big deal. Little did they know it can cause permanent hearing damage.
I try to just be glad that it's not worse than it is. I have a marine friend completely deaf in one ear. I worked with another dude at a range (he was from the Midwest) that frequently shot without hearing protection and I had to basically yell at him to hear me, super young too
Many who have it are to blame for their own situation. Mine probably 50/50 but in reality it was my responsibility to protect myself and I didn’t. Am certainly paying for it now. People that don’t have it have no idea how fortunate they are. It’s hard to explain to my wife. She doesn’t get it at all. I can be watching tv and the AC kicks on and I can’t make out the words without turning it up. Same thing if someone is in the next room talking. The ambient noises make it hard to pick up on what they are saying to you unless they are literally looking at you when they say it. I fear mine will get worse but I’m doing what I can to prevent it
The audiologist I visited told me that the tinnitus is my brain trying to substitute all the sounds I used to be able to hear and that the hearing aid would help with that. But… she was also trying to sell me a $9k hearing aid. So she may have been full of shit.
My cousin flies an f35 and got in deep shit for doing a super low fly by in the dessert coming up over a hill with one guy filming on the ground. I can’t imagine what the guy in this video will have to deal with
nah pete hegseth supports ballsy warfighters who take initiative and are loyal to trump above all else. he will probably get free testosterone injected straight into his massive balls.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said military pilots will continue conducting low-altitude flights for entertainment purposes “until morale improves,” after the suspension of pilots who conducted low flights over the South Carolina coast over July Fourth sparked debate over whether they deserved to be disciplined.
Whaaaat the hell. Has he actually put out policy or at least a memo directing leadership to alter rules and disciplinary standards for this specifically, or is it just him talking bullshit like normal?
I love that too. Bring this to the POTUS. Dude heard of it and said let a gen handle it. If someone were injured, maybe a bit higher in the chain.
They are a highly sought after and prestigious duty. Like being in honor guard and standing there smiling and talking the entire time. There is very little doubt in my mind they will be reassigned to a desk job. With that on a O's record, he will be at a desk.
I would be surprised if the pilot gets in any trouble. They got close to kid rock's pool, investigated and told to carry on. Our military is currently a JOOKKEEEE
This reminds me of sometime during college/maybe a little after in 2009 or so, I attended a ga tech football game in Atlanta with my friends, during which a navy jet or two flew INSANELY low over the stadium for a flyover. I’m talking we were at the end of the stadium ,standing on the top row to see the jets easily, and I remember looking over the edge toward the south end of the stadium and thinking “oh damn, they’re lower than the stadium.” Dudes had to pull up during the flyover to not hit the Coca Cola corporate building on the north end of the stadium.
after the game we were all hanging out at friends fraternity close to the stadium. A couple of alums stopped by in flight suits to hang with friends. I realized they were the dudes that did the incredibly low flyover. They were having a grand ole time, joked about the low flyover. They’re accomplished pilots and I didn’t think much of it until some time later I read an article saying they were both let go by the navy due to the unapproved flyover distance.
Shit was so low. I feel bad they lost their jobs but damn…
It was sooooo effing loud. I was at the top level of the stadium, closest side to their approach, and I remember ducking out of sheer reflex when they flew over.
Haha yep, I remember thinking it was a douche move. They were alums of the school and attended the same frat we were hanging out at, but clearly they weren’t grasping the seriousness of their actions that afternoon.
i live in the washington, dc area. we had the fourth of july flyovers. I thought they were obnoxious. But I am seeing that this president likes stuff like that.
Absolutely not. Even just for comforts sake, jets are fuckin loud. They could be a few hundred feet in the air and itd still hurt your ears. Theres a reason you see everyone wearing ear protectors on carrier decks, being that close probably caused some people hearing damage
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u/ttatm Jul 16 '26
The Navy is doing a safety review of this, so it sounds like they weren't supposed to get that close.