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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’m torn on this one. Apparently, Shane Osborn<\/a>, the pilot for that Navy EP-3 that the Chinese Air Force knocked out the sky back in 2001, before the 9-11 attack (remember those days?), is running in a Republican primary in Nebraska for a Senate seat To me that was dirty politics. I think questioning what most soldiers do in combat situations shouldn’t be political fodder. None of us were there nor were we faced with those decisions, so who are we to question it, just to win a campaign. Unless there was some evidence of gross neglect which caused death or severe injury. <\/p>\n Anyway, Osborn approached a friend who was still in the Navy and at the Pentagon to provide unclassified information which would clear him of the accusations. That friend did exactly that and put it on official CNO stationary;<\/p>\n The letter does exonerate Osborn from any wrong doing, that there was no restriction forbidding him from landing the aircraft in China under those circumstances. Osborn passed it around, even though is was on stationary from the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations giving the impression that it was the official position of the CNO in regards to the landing in China, and it might well be, but it doesn’t have the approval of the CNO.<\/p>\n So Osborn is taking fire from veterans in Nebraska now;<\/p>\n that was vacated by Tom Harkin, the actual phony Vietnam veteran<\/del>. Some controversy arose, during the campaign, if Osborn had acted correctly that day when he landed the aircraft in China, or if he should have ditched the aircraft along with it’s classified cargo and the crew into the China Sea, most likely causing loss of life.<\/p>\n![\"NNNNNN\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Shane-Osborne-letter-253x300.jpg\")
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