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Not Breaking: FAA Takes Recruiting to YouTube

July 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM | by pbb | 4 Comments

While everyone's suddenly talking about the fact that the FAA is recruiting high schoolers to work as air traffic controllers, the truth is that the agency's been at it for some time. Just check The YouTube, where this low-budget ad has been knocking around for more than a year.

CNN just caught wind of it and invited Acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell to comment:

We're targeting a new generation, and we're trying to connect with them where they are ... 18-year-olds today can go off to war and serve this country, so we will train the folks we hire, and we will make sure they're fully certified.

If these are the best ads the FAA can put together, it's no wonder they have to offer six-figure signing bonuses to recruit youngins.

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  1. jtormey3

    Jaunted Member

    Bobby Sturgell

    New technology? There is no human being more decidedly uncool than Bobby Sturgell. The people I knew listened to Allman Brothers Band, Hot Tuna, and the Grateful Dead. My guess is that Bobby Sturgell followed Cat Stevens a/k/a Yusuf Islam around on tour, memorized all of his lyrics, and probably still has every single one of his 8-tracks. What a GEEK!
    July 24, 2008 at 4:34 PM
  1. jtormey3

    Jaunted Member

    FAAilure Bobby Sturgell

    Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell and his Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continue to subject Americans to a steady-stream of jumbo-jet aircraft near-misses, unsuspecting flights on defective and unsafe airplanes, and other near- and actual disasters such as a recent fiery explosive crash in Moab Utah in which 10 innocent people were killed. Taken together, aviation mishaps are in epic numbers since Bobby Sturgell took over as Acting FAA Administrator over a year ago, as borne out by current NTSB accident statistics themselves:
    http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

    Recent FAA-floated publicity balloons faux-touting claimed new technologies, `going green', `perfect flights', and stories of how `carefully' FAA self-reviews, are only superficial charades intended to placate and distract the American people. The bottom line? Bobby Sturgell's fake regulatory agency FAA continues to tell us it is somehow OK for FAA and the airlines, whilst back-slapping each other, to enlist publicists to tell Americans that air travel was `never safer'. Meanwhile planes continue to fall apart in un-inspected disrepair, FAA management is exposed as criminally threatening dutiful aviation inspectors, and passengers along with innocent others on the ground are continually put in harm's way. FAA is a ghoulish and grotesque revival of the Oberstar-decried, Schiavo-decried `Tombstone Agency' - the taped-up-in-red embodiment of the notion that `If the plane doesn't crash, we're doing great' - the notion that a federal agency is not required to anticipate and navigate around safety problems, but only react if there are one or more tombstones.

    There are 10 more tombstones in Moab, Utah.

    How many more will YOU tolerate?

    Those passengers were innocent Americans.

    Quiet Rockland again asks all members of the United States Congress, journalists, the aviation community, all other American citizens on each side of the aisle, and all other world citizens to `Just Say No' to Bobby Sturgell, and help repopulate the FAA with responsible officials for a change.

    Quiet Rockland
    http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com

    September 28, 2008 at 12:50 AM
  1. jtormey3

    Jaunted Member

    FAAilure Bobby Sturgell

    QUIET ROCKLAND LANDS ALL KEY FAA BOBBY STURGELL INTERNET DOMAIN-NAMES
    QRNewswire/Rockland County, NY - September 29, 2008:  

    In a tri-partite deal with a New England-based seller and Herndon, VA Internet domain-name registrar Network Solutions,
    http://www.networksolutions.com
    suburban New York anti-FAA aero-activist group Quiet Rockland today announced its acquisition of the 3 most critical Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) domain-names relating to failed FAA Acting Administrator Robert Allan ("Bobby") Sturgell:
    http://www.bobbysturgell.com
    http://www.bobbysturgell.org
    http://www.bobbysturgell.net

    The transaction was handled by Quiet Rockland co-founder John J. Tormey III, Esq., and his law practice, John J. Tormey III, PLLC:
    http://www.tormey.org
    The arrangement with Network Solutions accords Quiet Rockland the unilateral option of an up-to-100-year extension of each domain-name registration term. Further specifics of the purchase remain undisclosed.

    Said Tormey:

    "Today Quiet Rockland strikes another blow for justice, fair treatment of air traffic controllers (ATCs), and historical accuracy. In the last year at the helm, Bobby Sturgell `piloted' his Tombstone Agency FAA directly into the ground - abusing his ATC workforce, continually threatening our safety, and putting us Americans all at risk while doing so. We therefore return the courtesy to him and his awful FAA. Quiet Rockland today dedicates these 3 permanent First Amendment-protected electronic-memorial reciprocal-tombstones to Bobby Sturgell's abysmal, morally-bereft legacy of putting profits over people and failing the American citizenry. Now, election-result irrespective, whether or not Bobby Sturgell follows through on his earlier-stated intention to quit his post by November, each person accessing the Internet worldwide who searches Bobby Sturgell's name at any time in the next 100 years, will be virtually-certain to take heed of Sturgell's well-earned agency cyber-posterity heritage of FAAilure. This is Quiet Rockland's virtual parting gift to Bobby Sturgell.

    "Quiet Rockland also intends this action to be a warning to those other aero-head officials, misguided enough to think of threatening our interests in the future. As but one additional example, we expect that FAA NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign Project Manager Steven (Steve) Kelley will now want to carefully review the website at the also-newly-acquired URL
    http://www.stevekelleyfaa.com
    This site permanently chronicles Steve Kelley's own role in the 1985 Fairview, NJ aircrash killing 6 people - an event which Steve Kelley himself worked as an ATC. We look forward to exercising our 100-year option on that URL filing as well.

    "More communications will follow. Our rock-solid foundational message is clear. Whether a federal official, or anyone else - if you threaten Quiet Rockland's interests or those of any ATC, expect a response - and expect that response to follow you throughout your career, your life, and perhaps beyond, in, at minimum, electronically-memorialized posterity. We have the resources. We have the technology. And, we have the will. FAA management will be repopulated with responsible personnel. The NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign will be defeated.

    September 28, 2008 at 9:39 PM
  1. jtormey3

    Jaunted Member

    Bobby Sturgell, [R]Ejected

    QR Anguilliforme Newswire/Rockland County, New York - Tuesday October 7, 2008 Sources tell Quiet Rockland that U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Mary Peters is now making preparations to brief the "new Administrator" of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In a related story, FAA promotes Ruth Leverenz to "Acting Deputy Administrator" as Internet-listed second-in-command Key Official, in anticipation of Acting Administrator Robert Allan "Bobby" Sturgell's departure from FAA office: http://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials/leverenz/ # For the full story, please see: http://www.bobbysturgell.net
    October 9, 2008 at 6:45 PM

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