I went through radar school at Biloxi back in '73...I remember the cockroaches. I retired out of Shaw AFB, SC last March and they had even bigger cockroaches. I HATE cockroaches! Ground controllers are cool. I've got a lot of respect for anyone on the ground. I've got a younger brother on the ground with a tactical airlift control element in the sandbox now. Fighter pilots, on the other hand...I guess I'm biased, I started out in Stategic Air Command. SAC required a certain mature standard of conduct for its air crews. Then again, SAC air crews usually included enlisted personnel. Most fighter pilots I knew treated enlisted folks with contempt. Not all fighter pilots mind you, just enough to give 'em a bad name. This usually applied State-side, overseas people were so much tighter. I met cretins in other career fields too, but as you can guess, fighter pilots were a particula bother. At Shaw AFB we had some of the first female fighter pilots. They proved that they were equal to their male counter-parts. That is, that you didn't have to have a prick to be a prick, you just had to be a fighter pilot. Were you a crew chief? How long have you been out? I miss some of the folks I worked with, especially the young people. I do not miss the chicken shit.
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Ground controllers are cool. I've got a lot of respect for anyone on the ground. I've got a younger brother on the ground with a tactical airlift control element in the sandbox now.
Fighter pilots, on the other hand...I guess I'm biased, I started out in Stategic Air Command. SAC required a certain mature standard of conduct for its air crews. Then again, SAC air crews usually included enlisted personnel. Most fighter pilots I knew treated enlisted folks with contempt. Not all fighter pilots mind you, just enough to give 'em a bad name. This usually applied State-side, overseas people were so much tighter. I met cretins in other career fields too, but as you can guess, fighter pilots were a particula bother. At Shaw AFB we had some of the first female fighter pilots. They proved that they were equal to their male counter-parts. That is, that you didn't have to have a prick to be a prick, you just had to be a fighter pilot.
Were you a crew chief? How long have you been out? I miss some of the folks I worked with, especially the young people. I do not miss the chicken shit.