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2025-02-02 -Obits-

Biden White House Social Aide Identified as Third Soldier in Crashed Black Hawk

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Posted by 2025-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ] Top

#1 No need for guess work. You already know what we have here.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-02 02:39|| 2025-02-02 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Taken with a ~~grain~~ block of salt. It does tell us something about why names were withheld. No, after the family has been notified, it becomes a public record.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-02 07:09|| 2025-02-02 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently her social media has been completely scrubbed. That accounts for the delay in releasing the name.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-02 09:24|| 2025-02-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 a White House social aide

Party fluff escort?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-02 11:07|| 2025-02-02 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media. The info was always going to come out. Why put the family through the added trauma of getting the Men in Black flashy thing treatment?

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-02 13:35|| 2025-02-02 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ My guess is they needed time to scrub social media accounts.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-02 13:39|| 2025-02-02 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media.
Since she was 'in like Flynn' with the Biden administration (a "social aide"), it was highly likely her social media posts and any other public statements she has made would reflect that her politics was radical left. It would take a little time to clean that up.
Of course, any statements she made to anyone will tend to surface eventually.

Posted by q 2025-02-02 13:39|| 2025-02-02 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 The few facts that have surfaced look bad: she only had 500 hours of experience in the Blackhawk and was training in one of the worst possible environments with multiple near-misses reported from other mil pilots over the years. Her trainer was said to have only 1000 flight hours experience. Blackhawk was 200 feet too high at the moment of impact per reports. Congressional meddling aka negligence aka nonfeasance aka dumbfeasance with the safety culture of air traffic control at DCA has been known for decades.

Posted by q 2025-02-02 13:44|| 2025-02-02 13:44|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Trump was calling out DEI before the smoke cleared. Appears to be a case of DoD DEI meets FAA DEI.... or am I jumping to conclusions ?

What we still don't know, what control tower FAA employee was handling the traffic that night; name, time on the job, work history, training, current status, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-02 13:48|| 2025-02-02 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 ^8
I was thinking about the altitude issue also. It seems almost incredible that someone would fly at the wrong altitude in that corridor. Is it possible the altimeter in the helicopter gave a false altitude?

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-02 19:44|| 2025-02-02 19:44|| Front Page Top

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