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Former U.S. Air Force officer and pilot Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., also known by the call sign “Runner,” 65, a U.S. citizen, was arrested today in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Brown was charged by criminal

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Who are we kidding? I think we've all paid a price in our lives at some point because we thought with a certain body part to the exclusion of all else.

Sometimes the price can be pretty steep.

Dude flew at my airline, got fired. Evidently NOBODY had a good thing to say about him,, lots of issues.

Edited Thursday at 09:41 PM1 day by Vito

2 hours ago, Vito said:

Dude flew at my airline, got fired. Evidently NOBODY had a good thing to say about him,, lots of issues.

Story time!

His crews said he liked to drink and start fights…..seemed a common thread in most stories..

Edited yesterday at 12:47 PM1 day by Vito

I copied something I wrote on another site and occurred in the 92-93 timeframe.

As a Flt CC,I took 6 A-10s from Shaw to Little Rock to support the Army doing Army things at Ft. Chaffee near Ft. Smith. Runner brings a jet back with a broken windscreen. No worries, that front panel would occasionally Crack from the window heat. Well, that wasn't it. He had hit the grounding wire on some high tension power lines. No call. No controllability/ damage check. He argues he did nothing wrong. The front windscreen on the Hawg is 7 layers of laminate that will stop a 23mm cannon round. That windscreen is supported by a very stout I- beam looking frame. The grounding wire hit on top of the AAR door, slid over the windscreen cracking the glass and shearing off windscreen attachment bolts before scratching the top of the canopy. The wire completely missed the engine nacelles and rudders. Any other jet and he would have been sliced in two and he thinks he did nothing wrong. Arkansas Power and Light was replacing that wire and sent us the piece with gray paint on it and said it was 292 feet off the ground which was below his cleared altitude. His excuse was rising terrain despite that handy, dandy radar altimeter warning which was not used.

He also almost put a Vark in the dirt during Desert Shield after screwing up a LGB toss. You might have seen the video updating your altitude chamber.

I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.

Edited yesterday at 03:50 PM1 day by TreeA10

I heard he was in the Epstein files, too.

7 hours ago, Vito said:

His crews said he liked to drink and start fights…..seemed a common thread in most stories..

So he was a Loadmaster? Now I'm confused.

10 hours ago, TreeA10 said:

I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

14 hours ago, stract said:

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

I was wondering the same thing. From what I'm hearing from dudes that knew him at my airline, there's no way he had a TS after how he departed our company. Alcohol, physical altercations, and denial of all of it.

15 hours ago, stract said:

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

Probably claimed he was a lady during the Biden DEI hiring boom.

15 hours ago, stract said:

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

You’d be pretty surprised at some of the stuff contracting companies will look past if they have a position that needs to be filled.

10 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

You’d be pretty surprised at some of the stuff contracting companies will look past if they have a position that needs to be filled.

Passing a background check is one thing; maintaining a security clearance as a contractor is another thing.

17 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Passing a background check is one thing; maintaining a security clearance as a contractor is another thing.

I’m currently a contractor and know the difference between a background check and security clearance. I’ll say it again, you’d be surprised at at how some things get overlooked if the company needs a billet filled.

33 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

I’m currently a contractor and know the difference between a background check and security clearance. I’ll say it again, you’d be surprised at at how some things get overlooked if the company needs a billet filled.

Cool, so am I, and I do as well. I've also seen where the company really wanted someone in a critical need billet, and the adjunction authority said "tough shit" and denied the clearance, thus denying that person in that billet.

54 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

I’m currently a contractor and know the difference between a background check and security clearance. I’ll say it again, you’d be surprised at at how some things get overlooked if the company needs a billet filled.

17 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Cool, so am I, and I do as well. I've also seen where the company really wanted someone in a critical need billet, and the adjunction authority said "tough shit" and denied the clearance, thus denying that person in that billet.

A lot of that depends on the investigator.