Just for the Hegseth of it, a squadron of “Blue Angels” fighter pilots—evidently dispatched to do so by the Pentagon—took part in a Florida air show this week by flying so low over the crowded beaches that their bow waves kicked up sand and blew shoes and other items around among the onlookers, who in one video looked to be no more than 50 feet below a passing jet. Young children were cowering on the sand and covering their heads.
Why? “The flyovers will continue until morale improves,” posted Mr. What-the-Hegseth the War Secretary. It wasn’t clear whose morale he meant. Navy Secretary Hung Cao, the rare American immigrant nowadays who is far enough Right to be welcomed by the government here, had his own post on X after supposedly conducting a review of the flyover: “No reprimands. No firings. No problem. That’s the sound of Freedom.”
Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare, in her recent statement urging Americans to “Make Crazy, Crazy Again,” obviously could have been referring to the Navy Secretary.
But U.S. Marine veteran Seth Moulton, now a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, posted: “Aviation safety rules are written in blood. Glamorizing and excusing reckless behavior like this will only lead to more, until we reach the point where a horrific tragedy occurs because of brazen, careless rhetoric like this.”
