Jet jockeys should not be confused with warriors. You would never read a whining, girlie-man note like this from a Marine.
COULDN'T AGREE MORE!
The weenie side of many (not all) AF types made me often regret not having gone into the Army or the Navy (I am not so arrogant as to think that I could have made it through Marine Basic - maybe at 18-20, but not at 31 when I went into AF JAG.)
Still, I spent all of 1996 attached at the hip to an Army 2-star theater commander as his interpreter (and about a million other things!) in Bosnia (totally unrelated to my JAG duties, but related to the fact that I was the #1 Serbo-Croat linguist in the AF at the time - a sideline owing to my having been born there - and the Army was woefully short in that category, so....they 'borrowed me'.) Going out on other 'special missions' in the dead of winter, dodging landmines and eyeing the locals warily gave me an entirely new perspective - and fulfilled the real reason I wanted to seve in uniform. After that year AF JAG got pretty boring and I got out after the 'Toons illegal war on Serbia (personal and family conflict (as well as legal) with that policy as you may imagine).>