Hat tip Grog
The commander of a B-52 Stratofortress squadron has been removed from duty after he was blamed for making “sexually explicit and phallic drawings” with the map software inside the bomber’s cockpit during a recent deployment.
Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was relieved of his post commanding the 69th Bomb Squadron after crude penis drawings were discovered on the plane’s Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) moving map software, which records shared data for post-sortie debriefs, according to a source familiar with the incident who spoke to Military.com.
An Air Force press release merely stated Goossen was dismissed “due to a loss of trust and confidence from his failure to maintain a professional workplace environment” after a command-led investigation.
Multiple members of the flying 69th created the drawings during the unit’s deployment to Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar between September 2017 and April 2018, according to the source, who said the images were screencapped and saved to CD so they could be played back for laughs during an end-of-deployment party.
Unfortunately, someone left the evidence behind when the squadron returned home to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and it was turned in to officials, who launched an investigation based on the prurient material. Col. Bradley Cochran, commander of the 5th Bomb Wing led the inquiry, which ended last month.
Air Force Global Strike spokesman Lt. Col. Uriah Orland would not comment on the details of the charges against Goossen, but did say that the Air Force’s zero-tolerance conduct policy “includes creating or contributing to an unhealthy, inappropriate work environment.”
The disgraced pilot led the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during the last B-52 missions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria before the Middle Eastern fleet was replaced by B-1B Lancers, according to the Air Force. It was by all appearances a model unit, beating an Air Force record for number of missions flown without a maintenance cancellation. Goossen even spoke to President Trump on the phone during one of the Commander-in-Chief’s holiday conference calls to deployed personnel.
Somebody needs to have a word with the crew of US Navy T-34C 160937 SHUTR91 out of MCAS Miramar ?? pic.twitter.com/WgrgkKzRln
— Aircraft Spots (@AircraftSpots) October 23, 2018
Too bad he had to go and let his squad draw all those penises. The US Military, clearly not busy enough fighting the expensive and expansive War on Terror, has been cracking down on juvenile pranks by soldiers. Two California Marines were grounded earlier this month after executing a flight pattern resembling a penis. Last year, two Navy pilots were disciplined after skywriting a crude phallic image with their plane off Whidbey Island, Washington.
He was being cis-male-centric. Obviously had to go.
Gives ‘doodling’ a whole new meaning.
He is probably happy he does not have to finish his tour at Minot. Men I know volunteered to serve in Viet Nam rather than have a tour at Minot.
As the son of SAC wing commander I always liked the pin up art painted on the fuselages. I wish I had the artwork on his aircraft = Shake Rattle and Roll, and Razzie’s Raiders. I never saw a penis painted on a plane but was inducted into the PEN15 club and you bet your sweet ass I am a turtle.
There’d be no captains or commanders left on any US warship/sub if they looked behind any label plates on any of the control panels, misc covers, staytime limit signs, piping covers, and on and on and on.
The nucs on my subs had a “Lemon Log” in which pithy sayings and events on watch were recorded. If those record books ever come to light in this age the bull nuc, MPA, ENG, COB, XO and CO would all be sailing an LSD (large steel desk). I remember my leading petty officer having his coffee cup crapped in. He washed it out and drank out of it to show everyone that no one could get to him.
So you’ve seen the shim switch(s). There was a nice lady on the back side of it, and where the switch penetrated the label plate is where her hoohaa would be. Pretty much every rad sign in the plants had a centerfold behind it. A piece of sheet metal formed to protect the lagging near feed control had our ships top ten list of most miserable officers to ever grace the engineering dept/XO/CO positions. It is quite sad what the military has become with the PC BS. The old ways were starting to fade when I was in, but they’re mostly gone now.
I’m sure the old ways are gone as they should be as some hazing was over the line. In this day a sailor that experienced the working end of a grease gun could sue the navy and they would have to strike a tin can from the budget to settle the lawsuit. I remember the goat locker had a picture of a cartoon of one fish saying to another “Do you realize the deeper you go the harder it is to fart?” When underway the chiefs turned the picture around to nude women. Yeah, those days are gone.
Wow, what crybabies. Can’t blow off any steam, right?
This is PRECISELY why we need to dramatically cut the DoD budget. The people running DoD have no intention of protecting the nation, so there is no point in even printing the fake money used to but the expensive weapons that will never be used for national defense.
I am dead serious about this. I don’t think that there are active plans to use DoD assets in the US, but if they won’t use those assets overseas, to protect national interests, there is no reason for them to have them here in the States for a bunch of harebrained Progs to pine and plan for.
Get a grip.
Drop bombs on innocent civilians, killing tens of thousands, maiming or rendering homeless hundreds of thousands; that’s just fine. Draw a picture of a dick–you’ve gone too far! Welcome to the retarded USA!
It is even worse this day and age of the Digital Puritans which are the millennials. If your flight plan is in the shape of a penis then it is no less than grabbing Meryl Streep by the pussy.
dick move
Damn…I guess you can’t say, ” It’s Time To Nut Up ” in the armed forces anymore .
I was wondering…when you are in a true war time scenario and hundreds are dying around you does a soldier still have to be politically correct ?
She probably would.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I’ve driven a submarine on a track to draw a cock and balls. I can confirm that if I did it was not sent off on a CD to higher ups.
You can safely bet that the dickweed that dismissed this commander has a tiny little dick.
We want out combat pilots to have big balls and be proud of them. A picture of a dick? What a fucking joke.
The U.S Air Force has a long standing policy against any images depicting Dick Cheney near the controls.
So . It is ok to suck dicks in US military but not draw them.