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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes it was the Blue Angels but the purpose was a photo shoot. That's why there were 6 jets flying in formation and then a 7th over to the side -- the 7th jet was a photography unit. They did flyovers of the Washington Monument and the White House for sure, likely to get photos of the gets aligned with those landmarks. I would bet they also did photos with the Capitol and other parts of the National Mall as well, given the number of flyovers.

It cannot be stated enough how expensive that was.

I would also assume some of the motivation has to do with the current rebrand of the DoD as "Department of War" and a desire to show off some of our most expensive weapons of war in a way they can associate with this administration. The photography plane also indicates they were taking relative close ups of the planes, potentially with pilots visible in the photos. I am wondering if Hegseth or other VIPs were in the planes.

The entire thing was a very, very expensive branding exercise. Paid for with tax payer dollars while vital federal services are either paused or being performed by unpaid workers at the moment.[/quote]

Cost concern troll is very concerned about the cost  :roll:

Uh, those are demonstration pilots and they HAVE to fly (more often than most other pilots) in order to maintain skill proficiency. Blue Angels or Thunderbird pilots can’t sit at a desk 20 days a month and go fly every week or two for a few hours like other military pilots often do - they have to fly much more frequently to practice their routines.

So whether they’re flying to do photos over DC, or flying to an air show appearance somewhere, or flying in practice, they’re still going to be flying somewhere. So that money was already being spent, whether they’re flying flew over DC, or over Pensacola Florida.

[b]Did you have the same fiscal concerns and make a fuss about USAID spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on drag shows in Ecuador and Peru?…. Or was that different? [/b][/quote]

Not PP, but yes it is different. Not that the law actually matters anymore, but the federal government is not funded. You are only supposed to be working on essential government functions. So not only is this expensive, it's illegal.

Also, two things can be true. To the extent USAID was funding drag shows in Peru and Ecuador, yes, I have a problem with that.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.[/quote]

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