00:00The mystery over why a pilot on the Navy's elite Blue Angels squad was booted for quote
00:05failing to uphold standards appeared to deepen on Sunday, after it was revealed that another
00:09officer from the famed stunt flying team had also been scrubbed from the team's website.
00:15Information has been fairly limited on why or when the Navy dismissed Major Scott Locks,
00:20a second-year pilot for the elite stunt squadron who flew in the number six position,
00:25which required him to conduct high-speed maneuvers and passes in the air to woo crowds all across the
00:30United States. During one of the team's final performances of the year at the NAS Pensacola
00:35Air Show on November 6, the Pensacola News Journal reported that the Blue Angels flew five jets
00:41instead of their usual six. This whole thing started over the weekend not with the Navy saying anything,
00:48but actually it was spectators at the Pensacola Air Show who pointed out that there was one plane
00:56missing from the Blue Angels' typical six-plane formation. With that realization, the Pensacola
01:04News Journal reached out to the Navy who then confirmed that pilot number six, Scott Locks,
01:12had been removed from the team, but they hadn't said anything beforehand about his removal.
01:17That same day, the Chief of Naval Air Training Public Affairs Office released a statement confirming
01:22Locks' removal, writing,
01:24Blue Angel number six was removed from the team for failing to uphold the standards expected of
01:28members of the Navy flight demonstration squadron and will not participate in the team's remaining
01:33performances this season. Locks was relatively new to the Blue Angels, joining the high-flying squad
01:39in September 2024 and serving as the team's narrator in 2025. In 2026, he started flying in the group's
01:46number six position. The major graduated from the U.S. Navy Academy in 2012 and married a fellow Naval
01:52Academy cadet in 2013. According to his now-scrubbed biography, the 37-year-old accumulated more than
01:591,300 flight hours with stints at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California and aboard the USS Nimitz.
02:06The pilot's military honors include two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals and multiple unit
02:12awards. But a new twist to the high-flying firing scandal has dredged up more questions than answers
02:17when eagle-eyed plane watchers noticed that Locks' photo and biographical page weren't the only ones
02:23removed from the Blue Angels' official website.
02:25To deepen the mystery even further, a second member of the Blue Angels, who was the public
02:32affairs head, Captain Danielle Cribb, went missing from their website also recently. So her biography
02:39and photo no longer appear on the Blue Angels' official website and the Navy hasn't responded to
02:44anything about why that may be. Cribb, who served as the squadron's public affairs head, was seemingly
02:49close to Locks. The pair were photographed together at a Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball game
02:55in April, when Locks presented her an award for her promotion behind home plate. In the social media
03:01post's caption, Locks was described as Cribb's, quote, mentor. Cribb, who was raised in South Carolina,
03:06enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2012 and was deployed to Japan and Qatar when she contributed
03:12to aviation operations and combat mission planning, according to a copy of her biography still available
03:18online. She was commissioned as an officer in 2021 and joined the Blue Angels in September 2025.
03:23I spoke to some family members of Cribb today who declined to discuss her employment status or
03:30details surrounding her disappearing from the website, but they seemed frustrated that her name
03:36was being brought in the same kind of public conversation as Locks's. They denied that she has
03:43anything to do with him and basically declined to give any other information. The Blue Angels are a
03:50mainstay Aerobatic Flight Squadron at more than 30 air shows across the United States. Known for their
03:55death-defying stunts, the squadron was formed in 1946 to showcase the power of the Navy and Marines in the
04:02sky. The squadron includes more than 150 active duty service members with a total of 17 officers who
04:08voluntarily serve. The main demonstration team is made up of six pilots with a seventh jet reserved for a
04:15narrator. The Navy did not respond to the post request for comment on Sunday regarding Locks and Cribb.
04:20Locks and his family members have not publicly addressed his departure from the Blue Angels and when I
04:27tried to call him and his family members today, I was either hung up on or my voicemails were not
04:33returned.
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