“Care to explain?
Curious statement as we have dogfights, even to this day. ...”
I did ponder several lines of response, but then recalled what Hulka had already posted, in Post 57:
“...to keep it simple, we have two types of aircraft. . .fighters and targets. . . ...”
This boast is repeated endlessly. All it does is state the most elementary truth: that fighter pilots haven’t yet learned to distinguish friend from foe. Personnel who cannot succeed at that basic task are a hazard to a military organization, not an asset.
24 years and more on active duty taught me that they are unreachable.
Ego is never removed from any interaction with fighter pilots:. And they all believe everyone else (by definition, we lesser mortals) wants to be just like them. Well, who wouldn’t want to travel that easy route? Hot machines to have fun with, courtesy of the taxpayer. Hero worship from every angle, no meaningful maturity required. Long on panache, short on judgment.
“Easy route”?
Okay. Believe that if you chose.
Targets and fighters. . .joke. Subtle and hard to convey via a post.
Re-read please the post wherein I addressed your biases and the opinion that dogfights are passe and flying fighters is easy.
Not everyone can be the tip of the spear. No shame in that. Be proud of your service. 24-hrs is a long time.
Did we serve together someplace? Did we deploy somewhere? What was your AFSC?
“who wouldn’t want to travel that easy route? Hot machines to have fun with, courtesy of the taxpayer. Hero worship from every angle, no meaningful maturity required. “
“truth: that fighter pilots haven’t yet learned to distinguish friend from foe. “
Something tells me you were never in the Air Force if that’s what you think. It ain’t easy to be a good pilot, hero worship isn’t from every angle (very few actually), and without maturity a pilot flunks out. I wasn’t an AF pilot (flew spacecraft instead, and currently a private pilot), but I know many military and civilian pilots (many civilian pilots were military pilots) and without maturity the career is very short lived.
Not sure that you mean by “distinguish friend from foe.” If that is from the air then get up in the air and let us know your genius thoughts on how a two dimensional looking flat brown Earth distinguishes friend from foe without some help from friend.