[diogenes ghost]

You may have so little regard for safety, with your military background and all, that you believed what may have been related to you by others...I do not know about that one way or the other.

But I CAN ASSURE YOU that the very best O'hare tower controller could not walk into any low level VFR tower in the country and be certified in less than a month. It is a matter of FAA regulations, not a matter of trust or ability.

Just as I related what our TDY guys from other centers were required to do.....not ability, not trust, but REGULATIONS.

Just as we were required to adhere to separation standards, we were required to adhere to the REGS.

By the way, we did start to get a few ex-military guys about six months into the strike, but they were new hires who had been discharged, now civilians, and they were required to go to the academy in OKC like all new hires.

[Yosemitest]

When FAA controllers turn their backs on their job, their responsibilities, and their Nation, ~ they had NO REGARD for safety!
Don't speak of what you know not.
You and your ONE FACILITY MENTALITY, have NO KNOWLEDGE of the USAF, it's controllers, their war time air traffic control abilities, their peace time air traffic control capabilities,
and just how quickly they can comprehend a given facility's air space complexity, it's danger zones, and it's "emergency out flexibilities".

THEY DID IT, whether you like it ~ OR NOT !
So take your over bloated ego ~ AND STUFF IT !

[Mark17]

There was a guy I worked with at Cal state prison, Solano. He was ex military, and was working at LAX. He kept bugging them to transfer to SFO. he told them if they did not transfer him, he would quit. They did not believe him. He loaded up his truck and left them high and dry. Next thing we know, he is wearing a correctional officer badge. It was 99% purely routine, and 1% pure stark raving terror. I much preferred the 99%.

I knew another guy I helped train at Laughlin, who is now as supervisor at LAX TRACON. Sharp guy, but the best controller I ever saw was a black female from Tennessee. That woman could really move aluminum around the sky.

[Yosemitest]

One other thing, that you may NOT be aware of.
That's just WHAT FACILITY MANAGERS can waiver, delay, or verbally accept, regarding REGULATIONS.