The problem with the USAF is that Pilots are Kings, other "aviators" such as Navs and WSOs are Squires, maintainers are Peasants, and the remainder (including 94% of officers) are Serfs.
At my base in the early 1970s, after a mandatory "Flying Safety Briefing" that ALL officers were required to attend (to pad the O'Club's revenue), two new ground-pounder Lieutenants (one personnel and one finance) decided to dine there. As they were eating dessert, a group of DRUNKEN lizards in green skin with zippers decided to hual them out and depants them in the parking lot telling them to stay "out of OUR club" before the drunks returned inside to destroy much of the O'Clubs interior (not the O-6 area, BTW) to a cost of $$$$$.
WORSE the WingCo, another lizzard, decided that EVERY member of the O'Club would be assessed an equal share of the cost of repairs.
How do I know? I was an Air Force BRAT and then a JAG Officer. I advised those who asked that O'Club membership was VOLUNTARY and, if you were not career, resignation could not be held against you. 90% of the ground-pounders, including me, resigned that afternoon. And the entire cost of repairs was paid by the 4 flying squadrons.
My first deployment was a realization that the world is an absolute nightmare.
The Base JAG Office in the 1970s was the "Central Repository of Common Sense". Mainly because 96% of us were civilians who did four and done.
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The problem with the USAF is that Pilots are Kings, other "aviators" such as Navs and WSOs are Squires, maintainers are Peasants, and the remainder (including 94% of officers) are Serfs.
At my base in the early 1970s, after a mandatory "Flying Safety Briefing" that ALL officers were required to attend (to pad the O'Club's revenue), two new ground-pounder Lieutenants (one personnel and one finance) decided to dine there. As they were eating dessert, a group of DRUNKEN lizards in green skin with zippers decided to hual them out and depants them in the parking lot telling them to stay "out of OUR club" before the drunks returned inside to destroy much of the O'Clubs interior (not the O-6 area, BTW) to a cost of $$$$$.
WORSE the WingCo, another lizzard, decided that EVERY member of the O'Club would be assessed an equal share of the cost of repairs.
How do I know? I was an Air Force BRAT and then a JAG Officer. I advised those who asked that O'Club membership was VOLUNTARY and, if you were not career, resignation could not be held against you. 90% of the ground-pounders, including me, resigned that afternoon. And the entire cost of repairs was paid by the 4 flying squadrons.
It does not have to be this way.
Obviously, you are not a real Vet.