There's an inherent problem with this entire discussion. In fact, with many discussions on AW. I hear lots of great ideas (and, to be honest, some shitty retarded ones, but that's par for the course), but rarely do we see traction in real life. Just once...one time...I want to walk into work and I want someone to run up to me and say "Dude! Holy Shit...have you seen the naval message that just came out this morning???" And I'll shrug it off as just another bullshit message...but then I'll read it and discover someone in the Navy has some balls and has actually unfucked some seriously broken shit. It'll be like Field of Dreams when James Earl Jones tells Kevin Costner "People Will Come" and everything in the world will be right again -- just replace the word "baseball" with the word "flying." That's what I want for Christmas. It's not the money. It's not even the stupid collaterals. Release a naval message saying pilots can be fucking pilots and stop worrying about this golden path bullshit.
Unless you can do that and make some real efforts to change a la USAF, we're all fucked because my peer group is dropping letters en masse. We're so fucked, fucked people look at us and say "Man, I'm glad I'm not that fucked!" Problem is PERS doesn't know it or won't admit it. I'm not sure which is worse.
Unless you can do that and make some real efforts to change a la USAF, we're all fucked because my peer group is dropping letters en masse. We're so fucked, fucked people look at us and say "Man, I'm glad I'm not that fucked!" Problem is PERS doesn't know it or won't admit it. I'm not sure which is worse.