Heh, from The infantry.
Depends on the career field and what is going on in the USAF.
Did 12 hours a day, seven days a week loading 1000 pound bombs for Linebacker II.
Either busting rear or goofing off.
Unlike you little chance of encountering somebody shooting at me.
We lost more from getting squashed, etc., in Air Freight than by enemy action in Vietnam. "Industrial accidents".
Same as lot of jobs in the military, you are around a lot of big stuff, moving fast.
"Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug."
In my other career fields, little physical work, but at times mind bending mental work.
Oh, you were the guys running around dropping 500lbers on your toes?
Nothing funnier than being in a messhall with 3 different distinct trades and listening and participating with the cross trade banter. Nowadays they’d probably lock us all up for melting all the snowflakes heh.
I may chirp the chair force, but I was always glad when they answered the radio.
Now we collectively have bigger fish to fry than each other, things are dire.