Because the community trains for other missions and sells itself as such. HSC guys spend a lot of time training to missions that they'll never do which makes guys in the community pick sides. You're either all in on tactics regardless of whether you'll ever do it or you're bitter and hate the fact that you spend all your time at home training for tactics and then when deployed fly nothing but right hand turns off of mom.I get what you’re saying. However, based on your answer becomes if vertrep/PG are the de facto missions and everyone knows it, why are the IPs in Whiting telling the studs information to the contrary? After all, the de facto missions are common knowledge.
Imagine if you were a jet guy and you spent all your workups getting LVL III/IV and the pain of SFARP and AWF and workups and then when deployed only flew tanker missions for other people. And I mean the whole squadron flew tanker missions. Sure you had these jets with gucci mission systems and capabilities but all anyone wanted you to do was to turn circles over mom and pass gas. Nothing else. Except maybe occasionally flying a random VIP to somewhere else so he can yell at you for being late. If that were the case you too might wonder why you put all that work in to getting your wings and quals and why exactly you're putting up with deployment just to turn circles.