What a space cadet.
A U.S. Space Force aviator was demoted when he was half an hour late for a fitness lesson, because he had been busy trying to buy a new PlayStation 5 console, according to Task and Purpose.
The military was scheduled to attend PT at 11 a.m. on Dec. 1, but when his superior sent a reminder 30 minutes earlier, he responded that he was returning home from his shopping trip to Target, and that his home was 35 minutes from his training, according to a written reprimand posted on the popular Air Force amn / nco / snoc Facebook page.
But he did not shake the devout player.
“Yolo, PS5> discipline letters,” the unnamed service member told Brass, according to the letter, using the slang to “only live once.”
The small response caused the unnamed military to be shot down in the rank of senior aviator to first-class aircraft, Task and Purpose said.
“You arrived late for work and insinuated to your supervisor that buying a PlayStation was more important to you than the disciplinary consequences of your actions,” the recrimination letter said.
“Your actions are an extreme deviation from the professionalism that is expected of you as a member of the armed forces.”
It’s unclear if the aviator was able to buy the coveted PlayStation console.
A spokesman for Space Delta 8 at Colorado’s Schrieve Air Force Base, where the reprimand was filed, was unable to confirm the letter’s authenticity because there is still an appeal process pending, according to Task and Purpose.
However, a spokesman for the base said at the outset that the format looks genuine.
The timing of the reproach is also curious: it came just days after members of the Space Force ran over U.S. and British military teams in an “Call of Duty” online gaming tournament.