I received a note from a good friend from Halifax River Audubon about the shooting of 21 birds in Florida a few days ago. Very, very disappointing news.
It turns out that 4 of the 7 individuals arrested for this crime are graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy, assigned to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola (FL) for flight training. I come from a Navy Air family (my father having retired after 20+ years as an Air Crewman - for the first 13 years of my life I was surrounded by the U.S. Navy) and have nothing but the greatest respect for Navy pilots but, if convicted, they should be stripped of their commissions and sent packing. As a nation, our militarycan must do better than this.
As David noted in his email, "It's mind boggling to think that someone capable of this kind of barbaric, adolescent behavior could possibly pass the psychological tests for entry into the highest ranks of our military." I wholeheartedly concur.
It turns out that 4 of the 7 individuals arrested for this crime are graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy, assigned to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola (FL) for flight training. I come from a Navy Air family (my father having retired after 20+ years as an Air Crewman - for the first 13 years of my life I was surrounded by the U.S. Navy) and have nothing but the greatest respect for Navy pilots but, if convicted, they should be stripped of their commissions and sent packing. As a nation, our military
As David noted in his email, "It's mind boggling to think that someone capable of this kind of barbaric, adolescent behavior could possibly pass the psychological tests for entry into the highest ranks of our military." I wholeheartedly concur.
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