Posted on 04/21/2008 10:55:00 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Now this is gonna be interesting.
Give the Air Force a mission or two in Iran. That’ll do wonders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gee...maybe its because there are only a handful of those assets left.
Those of us in the US Army never had a problem with the Chair Force. Whenever we had a mission to run they were always happy to give us a ride. They also serve the best box lunches.
This is a perfect example why Clinton or Obama shouldn’t be President of the U.S. The military, in general, would not trust them. They wouldn’t respond to anything they wanted to do. There’s a lot the military can do to thwart a direct order from the President if they don’t trust the person or have little or no respect for them. Would you go into a battle, like Somalia, under another Clinton?
Well whos responsibility is it to unleash the dogs of war???
I’m puzzled by this very public smackdown of one of the service branches.
This is a very serious criticism, and it is unusual for it to be levelled on the USAF’s home turf in such a public fashion.
There must be steam coming out of certain offices in the Pentagon right about now.
“Real pilots” resent having to fly the toys. They can’t log time in their little book to qualify for those cushy airline jobs.
Plus, it is a real pain to get decent tee-times in Iraq-a-stan, and good caddies are real hard to find.
Funny, the AF has been on war footing over Iraq since 1991. Enforcing all those no fly zones over the years has worn out our fleet.
“...they were always happy to give us a ride.”
Tell that to the Special Ops boys down at Hurlburt, son. They’ll have your a$$ for breakfast!
Militant
Gosh, did he really have to go to the press with this? I mean couldn’t he just go to the Secretary of the Air Force and find out what more they can do. I am not in the Air Force but this seems piss poor to me. I would be pretty upset if he did this to the Navy.
You think so? I would like to see how they stack up to me and the rest of my Ranger buddies, the scrolled ones especially (which I am not, unfortunately)
Hey now if the Army did not screw up this war, the Air Force would not be needed. /sarc. Just a return on your post. lol.
Let’s not engage in revisionist history, Buckwheat. You people weren’t flying those missions all by your lonesome.
Any chance this was a pre-emptive smackdown against another election-year campaign on Capitol Hill by the USAF for more F-22s?
First you are going to have to get the pilots out of the bars and off the golf courses. If you want them to fight tell them that a golf course is in danger, they will defend it to the very end. I have two very close friends (AF pilots) that recently retired and both have a handicap in the low single digits.
Not to rag on the Air Force...but I know a young kid in the Air Force, and I saw him one morning with several of his Air Force buddies...not one of them could have been over 120 lbs soaking wet.
Now, on the other hand, the Marines I come across...any one of them could snap in half a handful of the Air Force guys with one hand.
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