Know what? I am an officer.
But I think of a lot of 0-6s that are holding positions that are, shall we say, non-essential.
O-6 club is worse than the mafia in terms of their duplicity and careerism.
Amen brother. I am an active duty O-5 on a major staff in the Middle East. Millions (I mean millions) of dollars have been spent on me to train as a pilot and instructor pilot. I have around 3500 pilot hours and have spent at least 2000 of those hours training other pilots how to fly. At the peak of my game as a pilot I was forced to come to this staff. Know what I do? (I file TPS reports all day long) I re-tread power point briefs over and over, day in and day out. I am miserable. I do absolutely nothing aviation related. As a taxpayer (and a father) I think that the major staffs that we have in the military are a tremendous waste of money and are a scam. Right now with benefits I am making approx. $162,000 a year (completely tax free). I did more when I was an E-4. You can’t throw a dead cat without hitting and O-5 or an O-6 here.