And that's stretching the word "transparency" about as far as you possibly can.
Even that’s a stretch.
There really wasn’t much in there...
“Yeah we did a survey -and the answer is you want more money”
No Admiral, it isn’t and, again, you missed the point.
It isn’t even about flight hours...it’s about the lack of choice and cookie cutter career progressions that take you away from flying..so yes, it is about flying, but not necessarily flight hours (on the macro level).
On the micro level-it’s not even about flight hours-it’s about the flight hours being mis prioritized and replaced by bullshit HQs requirements that need to be done immediately… Tomorrow by noon… Today by 3 PM...smoking cessation and alcohol awareness and 40 hours of SAPR....it’s about treating officers like ADULTS and letting them do the job they signed up for-....not to meet some bullshit check in the block training so some O-6 who owns whatever bullshit training section can make O-7...just so they can proliferate even more bullshi as an admiral.
It isn’t about money-it’s about taking care of your people when they come home from battle..slashing the bonuses in 20111.you slashed bonuses for guys who have been to war zones and back for 9 years. What a great way to say thanks!
Lastly, we’re in the goddamned military-not the fucking Mormon Tabernacle choir-we Fucking kill people, and we want to drink and get laid. Stop making us out to be pariahs when we want to do what every Fucking warrior class in history has done. We’re not Fucking pariahs because we want to get drunk and screw.