Posted on 06/30/2021 9:16:26 PM PDT by PROCON
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I was thinking v that pilots don’t have to be as in shape as other branches.
Did all of my running while in the USAF (1968-1972) in combat boots 1 1/2miles at a time. But, I agree, we never matched the PT the other services did and we knew who was doing all of the grunt work too. However, in WWII the USAAF 8th Air Force suffered 58,000 casualties. So airmen have done their part, too.
Pilots definitely need to be in top physical condition. Even on a non-fighter aircraft, they have to contend with rudder and yoke forces. On an aerobatic platform, they also must contend with G-forces.
Make them walk 13 miles in 3 hours.
Apparently, the Air Force support troops were converted in the last decade to training via close-order faggot prancing-drills...
The Army cadets were on the 2nd floor, Air Force cadets were on the third.
My Senior year we ran everyday. The AF played volleyball.
I was a runner when I joined the AF..’81. A lot of folks were. We were expected to run in formation in Basic. We dragged some of the slow pokes nearly to death. Got yelled at for it, at first. In tech school, one instructor challenged another...mine...to a mile long race of their classes (in Denver.) And we played some volleyball. There were zero organized calisthenics after Basic, that I recall. Plenty of AF personnel were in shape. And plenty were not. Different missions. We could be quite a few miles from front-line activity.
This is the age of maternity flight suits. I keep wondering how pregnant women can fly in combat. What do excess G forces do to her and her unborn baby? Pregnancy results in major changes to a woman’s body and can make her sick.
For some, the work in the field keeps you in shape.
In Air Freight you are usually in great shape.
However, for loading crews, you need a fat person or 2 for jumping on bent pallets that are stuck under the rails.
In PMEL (Precision Measurement Equipment Lab), you are sitting at a desk all day, calibrating, troubleshooting and repairing equipment.
It makes no difference what physical condition you are in.
We lost some of our best technicians because of the stupid physical requirements.
In most career fields in the USAF, you need a good brain, not necessarily a good body, unlike much or the Army or Marines, or some of the Navy.
My family attended the War of 1812 celebration in Baltimore some years back and noticed the difference between the uniformed service people from the US and other countries. The US sailors and Airmen were the best looking. The other countries were chunky, slovenly, unkempt and didn’t look they could deal with a crisis if one should arise. Fat women, not muscular but fat and flabby women and out of shape men with poor grooming were the norm. Lots of visible tatts and piercings.
The US is not too far behind now.
At least when the military turns on its citizens, they’ll get their asses kicked. Unfortunately, if they have to fight the real enemy, they’ll get their asses kicked.
Idiots, everywhere.
Cheap imported Chinese goods (crap) and closing US factories and “displacing” US workers. That’s good too. /sarcasm.
I had to check myself. The BB writers are going to have their work cut out for them if they're going to try to keep up with the absurdity coming from the left.
At Ft Sam Houston in the 80’s when I was a resident, they had a single interventional cardiologist at the hospital. One guy.
He was a Major and out of shape and hated the PT test. He would show up at the PT test with a box of donuts, handing them out, and when the run started would slowly walk up to the start line while everyone else ran. They couldn’t start timing the run till he crossed, and everyone else was a half a lap around the track before he made it. He failed every time.
And he knew there was nothing they could do to him.
I've started playing a game with some of these headlines. I try to guess "Bee or not to be" before clicking open the story. Like you, I was expecting some Babylonian quality satire, but no....
No, it's just sad reality.
We should start a running thread with links to stories like this where Freepers record their guess "Bee or not to be" prior to reading the article.
See a dermatologist and lose the mole General Woke One.
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