Porn, texts bring Blue Angels overhaul

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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/01/blue-angels-mcwherter-groupme-texts-frosch/



Messages obtained by U-T San Diego reveal flavor of past 'toxic' environment

Porn, texts bring Blue Angels overhaul
By Jeanette Steele
1:34 p.m.Aug. 1, 2014 Updated 2:31 p.m.

The Navy has overhauled the selection process for Blue Angels pilots after a whistleblower exposed misbehavior on the elite air-show team, which included pornography and sexually-charged antics mixed with official business.

For the first time, personnel records of finalists will get in-depth scrutiny, and the chief of naval air training will have final authority over who is chosen for naval aviation’s premiere unit. Previously, only the squadron itself chose new members.

Just as the Navy is rolling out changes designed to put the Blue Angels house back in order, U-T San Diego has obtained copies of explicit comments and images that officers posted on the team’s cellphone messaging program sometime between 2011 and 2012.

The messages — which include photos of male genitalia, breasts and other nudity, homophobic slurs and sexist references — involved at least nine officers. At least three of the team’s current pilots were among the violators.

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1. It's hard to find heroes

Except in the Subway Shop.

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2. One of my favorite Simpsons jokes

was to describe the Blue Angels as "America's favorite waste of taxpayer money."