That’s exactly how it WAS. Not that way anymore. I had a friendly disagreement with my son on this. I said the same thing you did, but he assured me things have changed. They are ALL regular officers now. Since I was an enlisted guy, I really couldn’t have cared less whether a guy was a regular or reserve officer. They were all the same to me.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1184/MR1184.ch2.pdf
check out chapter 2, second paragraph. It spells it all out. My son was right. I was wrong.
Since I was enlisted, I gave him an earful on the enlisted troops. I think he knows the USAF couldn’t operate without the enlisted troops. After all, they do all the work. 😁
Well, can’t fly or be armed for an attack without enlisted. That is for certain and for sure.
I respect deeply the flight-line guys, enlisted that worked the line in all sorts of weather, facing all sorts of mechanical challenges and doing the things necessary to enable our Air Force to do its job. . .well.
I had less tolerance for admin types. . .and SPs.
Admin kept their short hours, always closed for “training” and never got the paperwork right, and not only that, they expected you to know all their rules and regulations and forms and such.
SPs are another days story. . .