Posted on May 8, 2021
French pilot files legal complaint after being subjected to traumatic hazing ritual | News24
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A French pilot has filed a legal complaint after being subjected to a traumatic hazing ritual in which he was tied to a target and had fighter jets open fire around him.
The unnamed man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape.
After having a bag put over his head, the recruit in his 30s was then transported to a live-fire target range, tied to a target, and then heard fighter jets open fire and drop munitions around him for 20 minutes, according to French media.
The unnamed man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape.
After having a bag put over his head, the recruit in his 30s was then transported to a live-fire target range, tied to a target, and then heard fighter jets open fire and drop munitions around him for 20 minutes, according to French media.
French pilot files legal complaint after being subjected to traumatic hazing ritual | News24
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As I understand at 29 Palms Marine Corps base always trains Marines with live fire. I am not sure I understand this story correctly. I am not sure the author of this news release understands this story in the right context. The French military it seems to me are not stupid enough to put a new recruit pilot into harms way. One thing the cost of training is expensive to waste a pilot on a display of machismo based military grandiosity.
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Was the range safety officer on vacation that day? Call me crazy, but that seems like it might (possibly) be a range safety violation.
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