What, oh what, could go wrong.
Do we understand now that this is a Kremlin project to completely destroy America’s science and technology leadership?
I asked him if it seemed callous.
“Yeah, that’s a good way to describe it, no personal authorization, just this form letter that doesn’t have anything to do with our individual performance, in my case, I just had a review that said I was exceeding expectations and doing a great job,” Hazelton said.
Kerri Englert is featured in a video on the NOAA website. She is, or was, a hurricane hunter, the crew member who gathers data during those daring flights into the eye of the storm, until she got the pink slip yesterday.
“I think that I was initially in a state of shock, as well as perhaps a bit of denial, I think I still am to some extent,” Englert said.
I asked her if, considering she and her crewmates risk their lives for the American public, she now feels betrayed by the federal government.
“Oh absolutely,” Engler responded. “I do feel an anger and a frustration and to some extent, I will say a devastation simply because this isn’t just a job to me.”
You don’t need people to fly into hurricanes or people to make model predictions of hurricane growth and direction when a president has a $1 Sharpie.