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I always wanted to go to Mt Home, but when I had orders to Mt Home in 92, I got "Diverted" to March AFB, due to a "Mgmt Shootout".
While hopping back off leave to Osan in 95 , I got a tour in Travis Tower, and I also had a friend at Beal (I think, about 30 miles east of Travis) where the U-2s trained, that showed me that tower.
I've got 5 years with the FAA after I retired from the USAF and they didn't learn much from the USAF.
They still use some techniques, but there is NO "team work" to the FAA.
They are all about individual ability, and they'll watch a controller "go down the tubes" and then won't lift a finger to help him.
They thrive off of eating their own.
They also don't like to work any harder than is required to keep their jobs.
It doesn't bother them at all, if traffic doesn't move due to mis=-information.
In general, they JUST DON'T CARE.

While hopping back off leave to Osan in 95 , I got a tour in Travis Tower, and I also had a friend at Beale

I retired in 87, so by the time you came to Travis, they had a new tower. At that time, I was working at CSP Solano in Vacaville, so I was only a few miles away. We could see the rotating beacon from Solano. I made more as a basic academy cadet, than I did as a Msgt with 20 years in. Tell me that was justified. One of the guys who worked for me was still at Travis, so he gave me a tour of the new tower. It was nice. My nephew is at Beale now, after a year at Osan, in U-2 maintenance.