General Olds observations is exactly why I quit the AF after a 10 year short career till 1977. The command had no idea how to run the AF without a war. Training got slack, small tasks became more important than war readiness exercises. Just had enough of piss poor management. I am a third generation Army Air Corps/Air Force family of fighters. I cried long and hard when I asked for discharge. May our President Trump do all in his power to fix the DOD.
“small tasks became more important than war readiness exercises”
Back in the mid-1980s our ship was in the Persian Gulf suppressing air attacks on neutral shipping, when we got a missive from some shiny-loafered, chair-warming, paper-pushing POS in D.C. ordering us to compile a complete educational resume for every man on board.
The XO actually started running around with his hair on fire preparing to do it, until the CO got wind of it. They disappeared into the CO’s sea cabin, and nothing more was ever heard of it.