"I'm blonde, and I feel like an outsider.

I remember my winging ceremony. Not the case for NFOs -- yet -- at any rate. "Prior to Savage's saga at VFA-106, a similar sequence of events played out for a different black aviator at the same squadron.The aviator, a 32-year-old Marine officer who asked not to be identified by name because he is still pursuing redress, alleges he was sent to the Marine Corps equivalent of FNAEB and forced out of fighter aviation despite performing at the middle of the pack of 100 student aviators.When his paperwork was sent to the Pentagon for review, he said, his ranking was arbitrarily altered from 55 overall out of 100 students, and a relatively strong 28 out of 100 on his second time through strike training, to bottom of the pack: 99 out of 100.While in training, he said, he would see white students make technical errors similar to those he had made, with dramatically different outcomes.When, in spring 2016, he was sent to a Field Flight Performance Board, the Marine Corps version of the administrative process governing whether a student should be retained in training, other students with comparable performance records were kept on, he said. The day I was selected for Aviation, just prior to graduating from NROTCU, was the greatest day of my life. "This action was taken immediately ... in an effort to prevent me or any other student from detecting bias in grading," he wrote in his complaint to Warner.Flanders said an oversight that allowed students to view their peers' grade sheets without consent had been corrected. "What I can say is that we endeavor to be impartial in the training and production of naval aviators of the highest skill and judgment, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, etc.," he said.The aviators who spoke with Military.com allege that bias factors into training because of the lopsided demographics in naval fighter aviation.Data provided to Military.com from the Navy shows that of the 1,404 pilots who fly Navy F/A-18 Hornets, only 26 are black and only 71 belong to any minority. "It's, 'Oh come on, I could get them better than you in under a week.' Our class was about 50% DNF, for whatever reason. Flight … "In response to this account, Flanders said the Department of the Navy has no tolerance for racial jokes or references. He had to repeat the strike phase of training after difficulties the first time through, but showed marked improvement the second time around.There was also an unfortunate mishap that would haunt him. "[They say], unless someone calls you the N-word or is telling racist jokes, 'There's nothing we can do about it.' "We’re being told in this respect that money is no object that the necessary resources are going to be devoted to solving this problem." He'd managed a 50.9 -- a hair over the score of 50 needed to qualify for fighters. It works out to around 2-4% attrition rate from primary. "The trainee said he was also held accountable to uphold rules that everyone else, even instructors, habitually broke.Multiple aviators told Military.com that while cameras are technically prohibited in the cockpit, it's common practice for aviators to bring in their own devices to capture images and footage.
"Being an African-American, we're different.

The Navy has acknowledged communication issues between leadership and the pilots in regards to their concerns with the aircraft.
"Now, Flanders said, students can view each others' grade sheets only with permission.

"I know that every student doesn't know anything," he said.


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