Navy Failed to Protect Pilots From Brain Injury, House Report Says (Gift Article)

Holy crap. We were reporting in 2008 that “visible injuries” don’t cut it for head trauma. You can’t see a bad concussion. You can’t see traumatic force. These pilots aren’t walking around with shrapnel wounds or poles sticking out of their foreheads. FFS.

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“The report said that because the Navy had repeatedly failed to act, Congress should pass legislation requiring the military to create a specific program to study and care for the brain health of all aviators”

"In a bit of circular reasoning that seemed pulled straight from the novel Catch-22, the experts said the Navy had never studied the problem, so there was no hard evidence that it existed. And since there was no hard evidence that existed, there was no reason to study it."

Ah yes, so aside from the cancer I'll surely get from the unshielded 1 megawatt radar over my head, I also have a history of a few hundred car crashes to talk about with my doctors? House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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Navy Failed to Protect Pilots From Brain Injury, House Report Says “Extreme physical strain of flying fighter jets was causing brain injuries in pilots, and may have led to the death of a number of career aviators, the Navy did almost nothing.”1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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I'm having a really hard time maintaining any respect for military leadership when I read stories like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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When that neurologist raised concerns to the Navy in 2020 that he was seeing a pattern of brain injury, he said it stopped sending him patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

“Landing on a carrier is like a car crash. In my career I’ve been in hundreds of car crashes,” said Matthew Buckley, a former TOPGUN pilot who after 15 years of flying struggled with headaches, mood swings and suicidal thoughts." #discover #Medsky #braininjury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...?

Navy Failed to Protect Pilots From Brain Injury, House Report Says A scathing report issued by the House Oversight Committee blamed the Navy for repeatedly failing to act, and recommended that Congress pass legislation to study and treat aviators.

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Folks, when your secretary of WAR is brain damaged, investigating brain damage is woke House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury

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"[In] reasoning that seemed pulled straight from the novel Catch-22, the experts said the Navy had never studied the problem, so there was no hard evidence that it existed. And since there was no hard evidence that existed, there was no reason to study it." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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A scathing report issued by the House Oversight Committee blamed the Navy for repeatedly failing to act, and recommended that Congress pass legislation to study and treat aviators. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

Just another disgrace by our military in how they treat our veterans. It's appalling. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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This article might explain some of those Navy pilot’s behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

House Rebukes Navy for Refusing to Investigate Pilot Brain Injury #USmilitary #USNavy #aviators #BrainInjury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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"Naval aviators are repeatedly exposed to body-crushing forces as they catapult off aircraft carriers and pull high G-force turns in training. The Navy has never studied how those forces over time affect the human brain..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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GIFT ARTICLE) A scathing report issued by the House Oversight Committee blamed the Navy for repeatedly failing to act, and recommended that Congress pass legislation to study and treat aviators. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...