Wow! An Air Force BGEN unloads in his going away speech!!!!

[A4sForever]

Shit, and here all along, I thought Shakespeare wrote it.

Some of you guys really get wound around the main mount on stuff that doesn't matter. Bottom line (how I love the bottom line): who cares WHO wrote it --but rather -- does it 'work' for you or doesn't it ???

Are most of the words germane or not ??? Does it basically make 'sense', or not ???

The words & sentiment 'made sense' for most of my Amigos & I ... that's a large part of why 75%+ of us got out, post-Vietnam, Carter administration (the airlines hiring didn't hurt, either ). The 'culture' was becoming insufferable and it didn't represent anything remotely related to 'why we joined'. Most of the words still ring true today in my world in many, many ways that have little to do w/ flying ... and that's all that counts.

I know, I know ... 'life-taker & heart breaker' type AAA personalities (basically, ATTACK pilot mentality types) aren't supposed to use words like 'germane' ...blah, blah, blah ...

 

[HackerF15E]

The 'culture' was becoming insufferable and it didn't represent anything remotely related to 'why we joined'.

It's amazing that 'the more that things change, the more they stay the same'. This is also true for my peers and I today in 2011.

All I can only hope that the real warrior spirit can survive the continued pussification of the military. I'm given hope that I have flown with and been to war with plenty of real warriors who continue to serve in spite of this idiocy. In the current USAF, I'm considered some kind of obscene anachronism (and have the NJP paperwork to prove it). In A4's time, I'm sure I would have been considered a SNAP'y punk-ass...but somehow my peers and I have been able to keep the fire alive and put bombs on bad people when it counted (and they were shooting back). Somehow I have to hope that future warriors will carry that torch even as things get more and more retarded.

 

[Gatordev]

Are most of the words germane or not ??? Does it basically make 'sense', or not ???

Now I'm confused. I thought you fought the North Vietnamese, not the germanes. Now none of this makes sense.

 

[armada1651]

the germanes

Wait a second...how did this guy get into the conversation?

 

[exhelodrvr]

Now I'm confused. I thought you fought the North Vietnamese, not the germanes. Now none of this makes sense.

There were some East Germane advisors in the North.

 

[nittany03]

Now I'm confused. I thought you fought the North Vietnamese, not the germanes. Now none of this makes sense.

The war started when the germanes bombed Pearl Harbor. Come on. Get your history right.

 

[Pugs]

In the current USAF, I'm considered some kind of obscene anachronism (and have the NJP paperwork to prove it).

I would wear that badge with pride in the USAF or Navy!

 

[HackerF15E]

I would wear that badge with pride in the USAF or Navy!

I put my "paperwork" up on the wall in my office so that all the UPT students could see it. It's mine, so I might as well own it (much to the dislike of some superior rank officers who'd rather I kept it in a desk drawer somewhere. If other guys can put their Air Medals and all that other crap up on their walls, then I can certainly put up the black-and-white proof that fighter pilot antics that were commonplace during previous points in my career are now considered severe enough for NJP in the "current" AF. That's probably just as important a lesson as anything I can teach them in an airplane.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Ok, if you're going to mention the NJP, you gotta share the story! Especially considering these days in the Navy an NJP would basically equal separation for a JO.

 

[KBayDog]

Now I'm confused. I thought you fought the North Vietnamese, not the germanes. Now none of this makes sense.

There were some East Germane advisors in the North.

The war started when the germanes bombed Pearl Harbor. Come on. Get your history right.

None of this is germane to the thread.

Let's get back on topic.

 

[jmcquate]

I put my "paperwork" up on the wall in my office so that all the UPT students could see it. It's mine, so I might as well own it (much to the dislike of some superior rank officers who'd rather I kept it in a desk drawer somewhere. If other guys can put their Air Medals and all that other crap up on their walls, then I can certainly put up the black-and-white proof that fighter pilot antics that were commonplace during previous points in my career are now considered severe enough for NJP in the "current" AF. That's probably just as important a lesson as anything I can teach them in an airplane.

NJP paperwork on your "I Love Me" wall..........NICE.

 

[phrogdriver]

It's amazing that 'the more that things change, the more they stay the same'. This is also true for my peers and I today in 2011.

All I can only hope that the real warrior spirit can survive the continued pussification of the military. I'm given hope that I have flown with and been to war with plenty of real warriors who continue to serve in spite of this idiocy. In the current USAF, I'm considered some kind of obscene anachronism (and have the NJP paperwork to prove it). In A4's time, I'm sure I would have been considered a SNAP'y punk-ass...but somehow my peers and I have been able to keep the fire alive and put bombs on bad people when it counted (and they were shooting back). Somehow I have to hope that future warriors will carry that torch even as things get more and more retarded.

NJP as an officer, or during a prior life?

 

[Bevo16]

I have my drop sheet from enlisted nuke school in the same frame as my commissioning documents.

 

[Catmando]

.... If other guys can put their Air Medals and all that other crap up on their walls, then I can certainly put up the black-and-white proof that fighter pilot antics that were commonplace during previous points in my career are now considered severe enough for NJP in the "current" AF. ...

+1. Awesome.

 

[HackerF15E]

NJP as an officer, or during a prior life?

As an O-4.