{"id":14624,"date":"2011-12-15T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:49:46","slug":"usafa-cadets-youtube-video-gets-official-air-force-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/usafa-cadets-youtube-video-gets-official-air-force-response\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Cadets YouTube Video Gets Official Air Force Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official USAFA Twitter feed<\/a> was alerted to the presence<\/a> of US Air Force Academy cadets from CS-38 parodying cadet life<\/del> the song “Sexy and I Know It” on YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0 Their response was fairly strongly worded:<\/p>\n

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We’ve seen it, and we’ve notified their commanders. Their conduct is unbecoming of future Air Force officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Public Affairs was reporting the official position that their “conduct is unbecoming,” that’s one thing.\u00a0 But their statement that they’d only then <\/em>notified their commanders indicated it was a personal judgment, not an official position.\u00a0 Other surprised responses encouraged them to backpedal:<\/p>\n

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Granted, “conduct unbecoming” is a strong term, and we’re not looking to say USAFA is a no-fun zone …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later:<\/p>\n

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Are Airmen going to respect Lt. Smith after they see him in boxers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And finally:<\/p>\n

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A cadet generally wouldn’t face disenrollment for something like this. A Form 10? Possibly. Depends on the AOC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the final retreat,\u00a0the tweets now appear to have been deleted.<\/p>\n

In short, it seems PA got a little ahead of themselves.\u00a0 Public Affairs doesn’t make such decisions or policies; they merely communicate them.\u00a0 As other “viewers” pointed out, members of the military have been making mock videos for years, and the military has had a fairly hands-off or permissive attitude toward them.<\/p>\n

Absent any obviously crossed lines or conduct that might bring discredit upon the military — which this cadet video did not appear to have\u00a0— the videos have not only been allowed, they’ve sometimes become viral sensations.\u00a0 The American public seems to have a fairly high tolerance for seeing members of the US military blowing off steam in a comedic video.<\/p>\n

Beat You Gently<\/a> is pretty decent, by the way.<\/p>\n

Documentation: The cadets produced those videos…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official USAFA Twitter feed was alerted to the presence of US Air Force Academy cadets from CS-38 parodying cadet life the song “Sexy and I Know It” on YouTube.\u00a0 Their response was fairly strongly worded: We’ve seen it, and we’ve notified their commanders. Their conduct is unbecoming of future Air Force officers. If Public Affairs was reporting the official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134,5285,2,2571,1477,65],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-sexy-and-i-know-it","tag-twitter","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}