Baylor University Air Force ROTC Cadet Allowed to Commission After Hoverboard Investigation

I would hope there was more to this story because if his leadership actually thought not wearing a helmet on a hoverboard was worthy of an investigation then something is really wrong in today’s Air Force ROTC:

A Baylor graduate whose Air Force career was in jeopardy after he was seen riding a hoverboard without a helmet received his commission as a second lieutenant after all on Friday.

Chris Delzell, 23, of China Spring, passed a physical fitness test on Friday and then was commissioned as a second lieutenant.

“I hope to help the Air Force get ready for the war that we’re fighting and the next war or any threat down the line to our country’s freedom,” he said.

The commissioning ceremony almost didn’t happen.

Delzell graduated in May from Baylor University with a degree in computer engineering,

The four-and-a-half year Air Force ROTC student says he was expecting to report on June 30 to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida to “start building weapons for our country to fight the enemy.”

But a week before finals last month an AFROTC captain spotted him riding his hoverboard to and from school without a helmet and wrote him up.

The report says Delzell used “poor judgment” and that while riding the hoverboard in the department’s offices, he damaged Baylor property.

Delzell says he nicked a wall, leaving a one-inch gash that he immediately offered to pay to repair.

Delzell said that was informed of the investigation, he was stunned. [KWTX]

You can read the rest at the link, but the Army would never have conducted an investigation like this.  That is unless he wasn’t wearing his reflective belt then all bets are off.  😉