An ACE goes down in flames.

"Dudley Henriques" wrote
.. I didn't
see any fighter pilots offering up roses.
I think I can assure you, there will be
an unwritten and fairly silent but brutal ramification within the naval
fighter community.
This kind of reversal doesn't go down well at Squadron level.
from what I
know of the fighter community, the navy fighter community will NEVER
forgive
him, Cunningham is a classic example of a good man gone bad! I can't
think of
anyone in my lifetime who had more going for him and ended up with less
than
Randy.
Dudley Henriques

Cunningham, after 10 years in the slammer will come out with an asshole
almost as big as he turned out to be!
2.4 Million in bribes and he believed it would never come to light!
Too bad he wasn't a Democrat in the House.
Disgraced the uniform and his Oath of Office.

There is something missing here. I talked to a guy who was in his
squadrod or knew him very well. A great pilot, but not so great an
Naval officer. He was in the process of being rifted after he got
turned down twice for a regular commission. After he got the 5th Mig,
he got a call from the CNO who told him that a special augmentation
board had just been held and he was happy to tell him that he had been
selected to the Regular Navy.

Schlomo Lipchitz wrote:
There is something missing here. I talked to a guy who was in his
squadrod or knew him very well. A great pilot, but not so great an
Naval officer. He was in the process of being rifted after he got
turned down twice for a regular commission. After he got the 5th Mig,
he got a call from the CNO who told him that a special augmentation
board had just been held and he was happy to tell him that he had been
selected to the Regular Navy.

You have the correct story. The same facts apply to Driscoll, his RIO.

In article ,
Yofuri wrote:

Schlomo Lipchitz wrote:
There is something missing here. I talked to a guy who was in his
squadrod or knew him very well. A great pilot, but not so great an
Naval officer. He was in the process of being rifted after he got
turned down twice for a regular commission. After he got the 5th Mig,
he got a call from the CNO who told him that a special augmentation
board had just been held and he was happy to tell him that he had been
selected to the Regular Navy.

You have the correct story. The same facts apply to Driscoll, his RIO.

I have a friend who writes books about Naval fighter aviation and get a
similar feedback. In fact, one of the characters in one of his books is
"loosely" patterned after Duke Cunningham.

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