Posted on Nov 17, 2017
Outrage sparked after airman takes knee during ceremony; Air Force says he felt faint
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Okay. This is interesting to know who's telling the truth. Every Servicemember knows you don't demonstrate or protest while in uniform so I find it hard to believe he didn't know that. Also being in so many ceremonies, it's not unusual to see troopers fallout in a ceremony. Some go down to the knee, some down to their butts, and a few passed completely out. But his buddy making the smartass comment did not help the situation. Was he getting dizzy or was he taking an ill-advised knee? We may never know the truth. Damn shame so many are jumping to conclusions on social media because those in the crowd taking pics don't have all the facts.
Outrage sparked after airman takes knee during ceremony; Air Force says he felt faint
Posted from stripes.com
Ceremony
Rules
National Anthem
Discipline
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Anyone who has been in the military long enough has been a part of a dog and pony show that lasted long enough to have someone need to take a knee (or didn't take a knee and just fall over). His friends joke is funny, but that's all it is, a joke. If he was standing and saluting during the anthems this clearly isn't a protest.
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MAJ James Woods
Yes at the moment his buddy said it, it was funny. However, also shows inappropriate because depending on who's listening and with all the debate about anthem protests and kneeling, that wasn't the time for that joke. Oh and the NCOs and officers that heard it now have to take it seriously. Oops. Time and place. Time and place to be a smartass is what I told all my troopers.
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SPC David Willis
All true sir, but I'm hoping this kid doesn't get hung out. As I got older I became more situationally aware about what I said to be funny. But when I was a private I was dumb. This for sure doesn't seem like it should be something that wrecks his career. Also if people were offended by this, I'm sure glad they never had a microphone in front of an infantry line unit...
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Either he was protesting or he was actually faint but his buddy was competing for Biggest Blue Falcon Award.
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SPC David Willis
In retrospect yes the joke screwed him but that would have been the first joke I made haha. Infact of the off hand comments I've made/heard this one is pretty tame.
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SPC David Willis - True, but apparently between his buddy doing the BF joke and the pic being posted and causing the young Airman to receive violent threats.....
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MAJ James Woods
In this day and age of social media where people observing things take pics and immediately post with their interpretation of the incident without having the facts isn't new and is also a huge problem. Best to wait for what the command say because I find it hard that any soldier, sailor or airman are ignorant enough to protest in uniform in the middle of formation. Won't be the first time a wingman's smartass comment screws their buddy. Happens a lot actually.
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1LT Will Mainor
What's more interesting to me than the uneducated public's assumption is hearing how our military is now cowering so much to the possibilty of being deemed not politically correct, that a joke isn't welcome. Military and smart-ass jokes go hand-n-hand. Leadership should show some backbone and own it, not cower
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If I jump to any conclusion, it is that assholes sitting on the sidelines have no basis for assuming anything ... other than the obvious. He got dizzy and went down. Stupid GD poop-stirring people.
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