leftysergeant
Penultimate Amazing
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Nelson's role in any crash investigation was apparently as a maintenance officer. It was his job to identify recovered parts and to determine whether they showed any signs of unusual wear, improper maintenance or assembly or parts failure due to metal fatigue or impact. ALL Air Force officers with credentials in relevant AFSCs, when I was active duty, participated in rotation in such investigations.
Nelson shows himself to be less than brilliant in his conclusion that there was something attached to the bottom of the aircraft. Butr then, photo analysis is out of his AFSC anyway. That would be more a military intelligence (which would seem an even greater oxymoron, were he working in that capacity) or criminal investigations function. He further shows his incompetance by stating that the Flt93 crater is only twenty feet wide, thus dismissing totally the span of the prints made by the wings and tail.
Would it surprise you to find a political crank among the ranks of a profession that attracts a few more than the average number of people with odd authoritarian personalities who might like to participate in the re-ordering of our whole society?
That such people exist in the military is not a slam against milkitary people. I have, myself, served in both the Army and Air Force. There are a lot of such people in both services, but, luckily, most of them do not rise to particularly high rank. Most, like Eric May, get sorted out rather easily.
Nelson shows himself to be less than brilliant in his conclusion that there was something attached to the bottom of the aircraft. Butr then, photo analysis is out of his AFSC anyway. That would be more a military intelligence (which would seem an even greater oxymoron, were he working in that capacity) or criminal investigations function. He further shows his incompetance by stating that the Flt93 crater is only twenty feet wide, thus dismissing totally the span of the prints made by the wings and tail.
Would it surprise you to find a political crank among the ranks of a profession that attracts a few more than the average number of people with odd authoritarian personalities who might like to participate in the re-ordering of our whole society?
That such people exist in the military is not a slam against milkitary people. I have, myself, served in both the Army and Air Force. There are a lot of such people in both services, but, luckily, most of them do not rise to particularly high rank. Most, like Eric May, get sorted out rather easily.