New twist in Scott Laux Blue Angels scandal after female officer also removed from website

The mystery over why a pilot on the Navy's elite Blue Angels squad was booted for, quote, failing to uphold standards, appeared to deepen on Sunday, after it was revealed that another officer from the famed stunt flying team had also been scrubbed from the team's website. Information has been fairly limited on why or when the Navy dismissed Major Scott Locks, a second-year pilot for the elite stunt squadron, who flew in the number six position, which required him to conduct high-speed maneuvers and passes in the air to woo crowds all across the United States. During one of the team's final performances of the year at the NAS Pensacola Air Show on November 6th, the Pensacola News Journal reported that the Blue Angels flew five jets instead of their usual six. This whole thing started over the weekend, not with the Navy saying anything, but actually it was spectators at the Pensacola Air Show who pointed out that there was one plane missing from the Blue Angels to typical six plane formation. With that realization, the Pensacola News Journal reached out to the Navy, who then confirmed that pilot number six, Scott Locks, had been removed from the team. But they hadn't said anything beforehand about his removal. That same day, the chief of Naval Air Training Public Affairs Office released a statement confirming Locks' removal, writing. Blue Angel No. 6 was removed from the team for failing to uphold the standards expected of members of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron and will not participate in the team's remaining performances this season. Locks was relatively new to the Blue Angels, joining the High Flying Squad in September 2024 and serving as the team's narrator in 2025. In 2026, he started flying in the group's number six position. The major graduated from the U.S. Navy Academy in 2012 and married a fellow Naval Academy cadet in 2013. According to his now-scrubbed biography, the 37-year-old accumulated more than 1,300 flight hours with stints at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California and aboard the USS Nimitz. The pilot's military honors include two Navy and Marine Corps commendation medals and multiple unit awards. But a new twist to the high-flying firing scandal has dredged up more questions than answers. When eagle-eyed plane watchers noticed that Locks's photo and biographical page weren't the only ones removed from the Blue Angels' official website. To deepen the mystery even further, a second member of the Blue Angels, who was the public affairs head, Captain Danielle Cribb, went missing from their website. Cribb, who served as the squadron's public affairs head, was seemingly close to Locks. The pair were photographed together at a Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball game in April, when Locks presented her an award for her promotion behind home plate. In the social media post caption, Locks was described as Cribb's, quote, mentor. Cribb, who was raised in South Carolina, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2012 and was deployed to Japan and Qatar when she contributed to aviation operations and combat mission planning, according to a copy of her biography still available online. She was commissioned as an officer in 2021 and joined the Blue Angels in September 2025. I spoke to some family members of Cribb today who declined to discuss her employment status or details surrounding her disappearing from the website. But they seemed frustrated that her name was being brought in the same kind of public conversation as Locks they denied that she has anything to do with him. and basically declined to give any other information. The Blue Angels are a mainstay aerobatic flight squadron at more than 30 air shows across the United States. Known for their death-defying stunts, the squadron was formed in 1946 to showcase the power of the Navy and Marines in the sky. The squadron includes more than 150 active duty service members with a total of 17 officers who voluntarily serve. The main demonstration team is made up of six pilots With the seventh jet reserved for a narrator, the Navy did not respond to the post request for comment on Sunday regarding Locks and Crib Locks and his family members have not publicly addressed his departure from the Blue Angels. And when I tried to call him and his family members today, I was either hung up on or my voicemails were not returned.