Maj. Scott Laux has been removed from the Blue Angels and will not take part in the team’s remaining performances this season. The Navy said Blue Angel #6 was removed on Friday for failing to uphold the standards expected of members of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron.
That answer is drawing attention now because Laux was already missing from the Blue Angels’ NAS Pensacola Homecoming Air Show on Friday and Saturday, where the team flew with five jets instead of its usual six. For fans watching the show in Florida, the absence made the personnel change visible before the squadron said much at all.
Laux joined the Blue Angels in September 2024 and served as the team’s narrator in 2025, giving him a public role inside the squadron as well as one in the cockpit. He earned his wings in 2015, later flew F/A-18 Hornets and then moved to the F-35C Lightning II, and his military record includes deployments to Japan and aboard the USS Nimitz. His honors include two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals and multiple unit awards.
The Navy has not said when he was dismissed or what specific conduct led to the removal, and that is the piece still missing. The Blue Angels also appeared to scrub his photo and biographical page from the squadron’s official website, while Marine Capt. Danielle Cribb’s profile page was taken down as well. Laux and Cribb were photographed together in April at a minor league baseball game in Pensacola, where he presented her with an award for a recent promotion before the game.
The Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight demonstration team formed in 1946, have been under attention after a July flyover over Pensacola Beach. Laux had spoken then about the team’s work, saying it was a privilege to perform and that the squadron would keep bringing the heat and continue doing it safely. Now he is out for the rest of the season, and the unanswered question is not whether he is gone but what happened between that promise and Friday’s removal.
