I don't see the Navy response as all that positive. It just seems that the Striking IPs have ground naval aviation to a halt and so now that VADM has to save face.
Especially telling is the pilots that said only 6 air test tubes were given for all their jets.
"Some instructor pilots point to Rear Adm. Dell D. Bull, chief of naval air training, as the culprit in ignoring the unsafe conditions.
“He is telling us to just, ‘shut up and color,’” one pilot said.
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