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http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/23/air-force-instructs-airmen-to-say-positive-things-about-troubled-f-35/

 

Saw it yesterday, if legitimate, news from the US service might need to be taken with a (heavier) grain of salt now. I quite like the jet itself and the revolutions it brings to air combat, but the open press coverage sometimes makes things... complicated.

 

Or does being in the service mean you automatically waiver rights such as these and 'play for the team'? But then how about the F-35 pilot that told the reporter that the EODAS does not replace the Mk 1 eyeball? While the general public could completely misinterpret it, it was straight-up truth.

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http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/23/air-force-instructs-airmen-to-say-positive-things-about-troubled-f-35/

 

Saw it yesterday, if legitimate, news from the US service might need to be taken with a (heavier) grain of salt now. I quite like the jet itself and the revolutions it brings to air combat, but the open press coverage sometimes makes things... complicated.

 

 

No one is squeaky clean but you most definitely should be not taking press articles at face value

 

Here is the actual pub relations doc 

 

F-35-Public-Affairs-Guidance.pdf

 

The problem they have is that 99% of people don't have the first clue of what aerial combat actually involves..........thus what the USAF say seems totally unbelievable and alien. Yet a lot of amateur bloggers with no understanding of what they are writing can come across as "experts!!"

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Thanks a lot for the source doc MigBuster! edit: I thought it was a shut-up-or-be-disciplined warning but it's just a PR event so normal I guess. As an organization it should fight for itself.

 

Where I come from something like this would be done completely opaque in secrecy and then years later, it would be on active duty and displayed at parades or air shows as the latest weapon system in service for the public to see. Nobody would question anything until it is done. Here on the JSF program it appears to be the complete opposite, it gets so much press that the AF is forced to do PR campaigns. :biggrin:

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