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I've seen the chicks with attitudes like Masshole in both ROTC and UPT and in the CAF. Usually they have more ego than skill and when shit doesn't pan out they A. Complain about unfair treatment, sexual harassmant, etc. B. ###### someone in a position of leadership. C. Marry some hard-up former USAFA guy who is tracking to fighters and tug on the leaderships heartstrings not to break up their happy family so she can fly a fighter too. D. Get to their Sq, suck at flying, ###### other dudes, get divorced. Play chick card to get upgrades while discrediting the shithot female pilots. Just from people watching. Good luck Masshole. I already feel sorry for the USAF as a whole and anyone who has to deal with you at UPT. If you feel you can talk like this with ZERO cred, imagine you attitude when you think even more of yourself.

you have got to be shitting me pyle.

No, Rainman, it isn't the deployments and ops tempo. While I don't like to be away from my family, I enjoy deploying because it eliminates much of the queep from homestation (granted, it substitutes other queep...but that queep is generally the easily ignored type) and allows me to focus on mission accomplishment...flying, mission planning, or pre-flighting for other people to go flying. No, what really wears on me is practice OREs, going TDY right after a six-month deployment, doing SOS online so I can do it in person, spending more time away from home doing something that doesn't matter. Squadron Christmas parties can be fun, until the SQ/CC or OG/CC's wife gets a hold of the planning and you're all showing up in mess dress, so you have the added bonus of buying new medals from the last time you had to wear it. Not to mention the several hundred dollars for a formal dress so the wife can come. Woo, fun! No, Rainman, it really is the queep. And it isn't even the individual pieces of queep, although they are incredibly annoying. It is the persistent and total lack of mission focus by the people who implement these pieces of queep. Only tan shirts? Really, missions were not being accomplished due to black shirts? Planes were falling out of the sky due to morale patches? So for me, at least...it is the queep, not the deployments.

...It isn't DOING the Masters, but rather the fact that the Air Force uses it as the ONLY thing that matters these days. For promotion to Lt Col, sure, I get it, but we shouldn't be forcing Lts and Capts to finish a Masters to make Major. Let them focus on the tactical level of employment...save the Masters for the operational and strategic levels where they could actually use them if everyone at the tactical level wasn't getting some BS basket weaving Masters just to fill a square. I like the Jumper mentality...we'll send you to get a Masters if we think you need one. Lts and Capts don't need them. We waste a lot of money getting our Lts and Capts BS Masters degrees they'll never use just to make them look good and so we as a service can brag about 96.69% of the officer corps having advanced degrees. Education is important, and I believe there is a time and place during career development for it. A new LT at a squadron trying to learn his/her primary job is NOT the time. We've been doing it that way for about 8 years now. We look f*cking awesome when it comes to AAD stats, but we aren't as good at our jobs as we could be. We will soon see the negative consequences of the misguided focus in failed ORIs, lowered standards, and (God forbid) mishaps. I hope I'm wrong on this one. By the way, when did you finish your Masters? As a LT or senior Capt/Major (back when senior Capts had 11-12 years of service). No, they aren't fun anymore. Not sure how long you've been out but drinking is frowned upon these days (not that you have to drink to have fun). We even used to have play money casinos at our Christmas parties before leadership frowned on it saying it promoted gambling. If I were to make it my kind of "fun" it would certainly get me in trouble. I wouldn't quit for it though... I don't think we do these often enough for it to matter. Agree...show up and run. You were probably going to go to the gym anyway. Rainman, I agree with what you say most of the time. You bring a "big picture" perspective to a lot of the gripes on here and I like that. I only disagree with your assertion that the gripes of these younger officers are something they can ignore without consequences. Sure, bringing gripes like Christmas parties and warrior runs from the tactical level directly to the CSAF doesn't make sense, but the message isn't getting past our leadership and there isn't much anyone at our level can do about it. Ignoring it or just conforming isn't the answer. The focus and the culture has to change. I just hope that these same young officers complaining about these things aren't the same ones 10 years from now dishing it out. Edited for format

Thank you. I love Prince. Thank you for your attempted internet psychological assessment, but I was messing with Rainman and it got out of hand. Hardly indicative of who any of us are as a person. I have no ego nor any intention on committing any one of the four mistakes. Thank you for the well wishes, but do not sleep in fear for the USAF's future. It will be just fine with me.

One man's garbage is another man's treasure. We need more folks like you to jump on these grenades.

No... he's saying that in the civillian world, you aren't always forced to search for a new career half way through (with the exception of the few who are able to make it to a high enough rank to last that long). In a civilian career, you can, with the right attitude in most situations, work the whole time in one career field. It's not as common anymore, but definitely more common than in the military. I know you're just being a bit of a devil's advocate in a few of these threads, but come on man.... His point was a valid one which is not brought up frequently, and you are certainly intelligent enough to understand what he meant.

It's called a cockpit for a reason, not the box office. If God had intended for women to fly the sky would be pink, not blue.

And Astronauts

...to say nothing of "rocking" your cross-country.

Complain to your Flt/CC that you're getting treated unfairly because you're a chick. This will force your Flt/CC to rank you #1 because he's scared you'll go up the chain with your complaint. Then you'll get your sweet revenge on track select when a -38 pops up on the screen while the rest of your bros go to Tones. Not that this has happened before. Wait, what? Or just fuck one of the dudes in your class and write a poem about how he now has Herpes.

How do you t bag life support gear? Did the 130 guys actually pull their scrotums out and smear their ball sacs on the 17 guys nvgs and helmets? Another question for tac airlifter...did you know of a 130 chick that was pissed off at the 17 dudes? Did she rub her labia all over their gear? Gross man.

To OP: yeah, there are assholes out there like this guy too

Ha. Fair enough, but by the time I have a decade of experience, you will be back in diapers.

Yes, I am quite familiar how conversations work. You post, I post, you respond, I respond. I do not think you are being mean to me. I read this board before I started posting and am familiar with (and fond of) the way you post. If my last response was out of line, then I apologize, but I am keeping with the ribbing theme. If you cannot handle the heat, go back to the kitchen- right? I did not know what a Rugby Queen is, but thanks for the debrief. I do not enjoy the attention any more than anyone else that posts here. I am getting a lot of advice and killing down time by posting here. I think you have the wrong impression of me and that is fine. If thinking I am a stupid whore encourages you to keep making these posts, then by all means, assume I am a stupid whore. I was hoping you would shit a brick in response to my post so I could make a Metamucil joke.

Your opinion is noted but irrelevant. Brandishing with piss-poor insults to assert your "male dominance" does not work. I expected you to be able to take a joke and have more game, but your post was only intramural-type game and void of any actual verbal skill. I will happily fly and serve my country- I am grateful I am allowed to do that. Feel free to write to your Congressman if that bothers you. In the real world, that is how bitches get things done. To put this simply in words you find communicable: Bend over, bitch. We are going to run the minority train on your ass. Oh hell no. A gay cadet is the only thing worse than a female cadet. Masshole.