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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? His name's Richard and he was born 1969.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You'd think it is still 1969 with the claims of this being unprofessional. The world has moved on, CAF.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The last article I read was an American high school football coach using the word Nazi as a play call against a school that's 90% Jewish and the players using antisemitic slurs throughout the game.

That deserves an investigation and firing, this kind of Tom Foolery requires an eye roll and a change of call sign, if that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This thorough, week long investigation has concluded that it was kind of humorous.

[–] cheese_greater 6 points 11 months ago

I, for one, welcome the inescapable conclusions derived from bureaucratically-compelled inquests into inherently humorous and light-hearted happenings.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh no! The people we pay to train to kill others might use gasp mild swear words!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is NA, we'd rather see people's brains exposed than their nipple.

[–] cheese_greater 16 points 11 months ago

Give this man a medal

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's my understanding that pilots don't get to choose their callsigns. Instead, it's their teammates who choose them, which is why they are often jokes at the expense of the pilot. E.g. the callsign of Ewan McGregor's brother was OB-2.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Callsigns for pilots, yes. This article is conflating callsigns with the plane's identification/flight number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying. Do you know who chooses that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I guess he ALWAYS had the high ground

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And the investigation reveals that nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Bubbles is in the air force now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[–] xc2215x 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They did for this type of reaction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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