HayesGreener
Ronin
Yep!
The Air Force Needs Fewer Leaders and More Wrench-Turners… Here’s How to Get Them
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USMC6094
Custom
Once upon a time I knew a Marine veteran, that had retired from the Airforce.
You see, this fella had been in the first wave to land on Iwo Jima in 1945. His decision to change jobs came one day when he was attempting to get cover by trying to crawl into his helmet, and saw two Corsairs make a strafing run to get his outfit clear to move.
It was in that moment that he clearly decided he was in the wrong career.
Post war, he joined the new Airforce in 1947, and retired from it.
The USAF won't even consider Marines for service anymore, we're labeled EXTREMISTS now.
You see, this fella had been in the first wave to land on Iwo Jima in 1945. His decision to change jobs came one day when he was attempting to get cover by trying to crawl into his helmet, and saw two Corsairs make a strafing run to get his outfit clear to move.
It was in that moment that he clearly decided he was in the wrong career.
Post war, he joined the new Airforce in 1947, and retired from it.
The USAF won't even consider Marines for service anymore, we're labeled EXTREMISTS now.
Bassbob
Emissary
All the ones I know are, eh, intense, if not extreme. It's not difficult to tell a crayon eater from a grunt.
Tinyman
Custom
OldGrunt
Elite
Marines became known for crayon eating long after I got out of the Corps. Must have happened around the time the military went woke.
You won't have all the best without diversity.
NMEDGE
Professional
Sir, you don't have a clue!
Explain it then.
Bassbob
Emissary
Better yet, you explain how hiring people based on their race gives you the best of anything.
Talyn
SAINT
You must be a DEI hire.
UC_Guy 1971
Master Class
Really? Wow.... just wow. I'm glad I retired when I did. Here's hoping that things will change with the world realizing woke is a failure.
NMEDGE
Professional
Exactly! Also throw in sexual preference. The Air Force has been ruined
HayesGreener
Ronin
I have difficulty understanding how a graduate of West Point and retired Army LtCol could take that position. I am all for everyone having an opportunity when everything else is equal, but you can't solve that problem with recruiting. I have friends and famiky who are military instructor pilots. It is a decades long process to produce pilots. Increasing diversity in cockpits can only begin with properly educating children from diverse populations beginning in kindergarten. If you can't read and write or do the math, and can't stay drug and crime free, you are not going to get a seat in complex military aircraft. The lesson should be clear from the experience of the Tuskeegee Airmen more than 80 years ago. Those pilots were college educated. If your subculture does not value education and more importantly patriotism, you can't get there and DEI recruiting won't help.
HayesGreener
Ronin
I know some female pilots who are tough, ferocious warriors who I have no doubt will flame our enemies . But merit should be the determining factor for recruiting, not sex or race.
OldGrunt
Elite
I agree. I have no problem with gay people or women being in the military as long as they are qualified for their MOS. But this trans thing, no way. Those people have mental issues and will bring those issues along into the military.
HayesGreener
Ronin
I agree
HayesGreener
Ronin
We agree