Okay, so this occured in a F/A-18 squadron.I grew up in Pensacola, FL aka the "Cradle of Naval Aviation" I have known a lot of Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers over the years ranging from the most junior flight students to seasoned officers etc Know two flight students now I went to college with, actually one just got his wings and is in Lemoore, CA for F/A-18 training.Even have a couple retired Naval Aviators in my extended family and know them well.They tend to have senses of humor that prefer the risque/off color jokes etc but it's not about harassment or offending anyone, it's about camraderie and right off passage.Has nothing to do with education, race, class, actual sexual preference etc. Back in college my fellow pledges and I were called much more offensive names than "fagmeister". We were assigned female names etc We just went along with because it was all in good humor and established a fraternal bond and that is what it is about.This guy was from the Enlisted ranks which I assure you say and do much worse in most cases.This guy became an officer, could not tell by his picture if he had wings or not but he was part of the squadrons officers and was tagged with various names by the skipper as a joke.This guy obviously was too much of an uptight tool to get the humor and took offense, so he complained and started a bunch of trouble.Now a well trained Commander and Naval Aviator who no doubt has a distinguished career considering he was CO, well his career is prob over and why? Because some douche could not take a joke and mold into the brotherhood? Nothing more than Political Correctness out of control.Perhaps he was retaliated against or perhaps he found he was not cut out to be an officer and thus had a low eval, lower than his evals as an enlisted man for a reason.Bottom line, complaint should have never been filed and no action should be taken esp at the expense of ending the career of the Commander.
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