“Just the kind of crap I would expect from an REMF.
Everything you said about telling how a weapon is performing in combat was nonsense...I guess you really don’t see how dimwitted that sounds.” [dsc, post 70]
On the off chance you’re not striking a mere pose, I can say I’ve been chewed out by a long list of people wearing multiple stars. Some were more eloquent, some were more forceful, and most used saltier language.
Occupational hazard in my line of work. I didn’t take it personally; the laws of physics were on my side.
Before being medically grounded, I served on combat aircrew in B-52s and B-1Bs. About 1/3 of that stretch of time was spent on ground alert, beside fully armed & ready bombers. Rather less exciting that shooting someone six feet away, but necessary. And when not on alert, I flew to spots you’d have difficulty locating on a chart. Doubts still exist, as to whether anyone took a shot at us. No way to tell for sure.
Feel free to launch another self-congratulatory tirade. Or not, as you wish.
One might point out that the individual footsoldier isn’t any more than a target, without all the other weapon systems & logistic support that has been built up, over the past 150 years or so. This truth should not come as news to any forum member, as it’s a key “lesson of history” from World War One.
Myself, I wouldn’t brag about a “long list” of f*ckups that got me chewed out by senior officers. But I guess things are different in the Air Force; over there where you evaluate the effectiveness of weapons without reference to anything that happens on the battlefield.