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Well, I'm not sure how to respond to that. I will agree that's there's fat and waste in the USAF, I had to deal with it my whole career. But the Air Force is not the Marine Corps, that's for sure. It's not the Army or the Navy either. It's main mission is AIR combat. Some time ago the Air Corps had enlisted pilots which were every bit as good as the officer ones (which were damn good), but the powers that be decided only officers would "fly and fight". Now a-days, enlisted crew positions don't even exists on any combat aircraft.

The USAF's enlisted force is there to support the pilot warriors, and simply doesn't have the mission (rifleman) that Marine enlisteds do (there is a very small cadre of Air Force enlisted forward air controllers and pararescuemen that do fight with small arms, but very few). We could, of course, hire civilians to support the combat pilots, and move all the Air Force enlisteds into the Marines or Army, I guess. But until and unless some power decides to do so, I'll still be proud of my enlisted service to this country, and those I knew who are still in the Air Force.

i think you did not mean to flame my service, but remember the roles the Air Force and Marine Corps in fighting our country's wars are very different.

Semper Fi to you, too, Mac.