LOL! Sigh, I laugh, but...I don’t know what your Air Force was like, but today’s Navy is depressingly and alarmingly different from my Navy, and the one I observed growing up.
Mine was the Air Force of Jimmah Carter, and was a low point for funding, and discipline. Air Force Basic Training was six weeks long, and out of those six weeks included only one half of one day on the Confidence Course. The rest of the time was spent making sure all of your shoes were in a straight line under your bunk, and that your underwear was folded precisely 6” wide in your drawer.
Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the Air Force, and I took it more seriously than most. I was promoted in the earliest possible time every cycle, and was an E5 when my enlistment was up. That wasn’t much to my friend who enlisted in the Navy at the same time I enlisted in the Air Force, but it was the best that could be done wearing a blue suit.
But the thing that constantly reminds me that I wasn’t really in the military is that there is a seven year gap between the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and the Grenada war in 1982 that is ineligible to join the American Legion because there was no ‘conflict.’
I served from 1977 to 1981.
I missed the renaissance of the Reagan Years, and I have no idea what the Air Force of today is like, but it has to be better than the post Vietnam funk it was in when I served.