Tuberville blocks Red Six's posthumous promotion to Red Leader
"Are we really doing this again? He knows this is imaginary, right?"
A controversial monument to Porkins noticeably slims down the hero.
THE CAPITOL — Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who has held up hundreds of military promotions on political grounds, is now blocking a posthumous promotion that would elevate fighter pilot Jek Tono Porkins, who died as “Red Six” during the Battle of Yavin, to the rank of “Red Leader” unless President Biden reverses his reversal of a decision by former President Trump to permanently locate Space Force Headquarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL
Tuberville is again exploiting a seldom-used senate rule to prevent consideration of a resolution proposed by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) to posthumously transfer the late fighter pilot to the Space Force and promote him, saying he heard the events surrounding Porkin’s heroism “happened long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away where they don’t even believe in Jesus anyway.”
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