In the mid-90s...as I was coming to the end of my career...I started to notice this mentality. This anti-AFI concept was sweeping the AF and everyone was encouraged to be “different” and recreate a totally different vision on their base. Then over the past ten years...you added the constant TDYs and deployments...which meant you never got a firm hand on your real job. And finally...junior NCOs began to be forced into the real leadership role that senior NCOs had long held. I was witnessing guys moving up to E8 in fifteen years who simply were book-smart but unable to grasp their entire profession.
This continued nuke inspection problem....isn’t just about the nukes...it’s really about the entire Air Force.
Well, at least it can be said that those weapons systems outlived America.