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Why did the WASHINGTON POST endorse BARBARA COMSTOCK??? WHY DID THE WASHINGTON POST ENDORSE BARBARA COMSTOCK???

After voting for ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood, #VA10 Congresswoman Barbara Comstock has been RATED "F" by nearly every single conservative group for her anti-Trump liberal record.

It's time for a CONSERVATIVE CHANGE from Barbara Comstock: Shak Hill for Congress.

SHAK HILL: Air Force Academy Graduate. Decorated Fighter Pilot. Articulate Voice for Conservatives. Unlike Comstock, Shak Hill will stand with President Trump and support the Trump Agenda. That's the only way we're going to hold this seat in November.

To all who were concerned about accuracy, I thank you.

To Freeper TBP — thank you for posting. I had no idea that Barbara Comstock was such an utter failure to our cause.

“Fighter” modifying the word pilot does not appear in the clip of the political ad at the article link, nor does it appear in the bio at Shak Hill’s website.

I will ask the moderator to revise the article text above to show that the correct adjective, as used, is “combat” pilot [Desert Storm].

“You need to get over your envy and jealousy.”

The never-ending conceit: fighter pilots always believe that everyone else on the planet wants to do what they do.

I will confess that as a private pilot, I have at times wanted fly some of the hardware given into their hands. But I realize that’s just my ego talking. However, other aspects of that line of work cannot be counted out: I wouldn’t be one of them, not for any earthly reward. Couldn’t endure the degradation of intellect and sacrifice of self-respect that would be required; as officers, leaders, and professionals, they are cyphers.

Sometimes, the fighter-pilot wannabes are more defensive, more adamant than the fighter pilots themselves. Never been able to compute that; no fighter pilot has ever given any of their hangers-on some much as the time of day. They dismiss the rest of humanity as vermin, so insignificant, so lowly, that we are not worth their effort to step on.

Which are you?

“You need to get over your envy and jealousy. ...
Find something you can excel at,..”

Still laboring, I see, under the misconception that I envy fighter pilots. I suppose I could, if I was a whiny, backstabbing mama’s boy also.

My disenchantment stems directly from the facts: they are dishonorable as a group. A net negative for the profession; can’t be bothered to learn anything else, can’t bear to let anyone compete, and refuse to let anyone else lead, despite their incompetence at leading.

Don’t take my word for it. Read Rebecca Hancock Cameron’s book _Training to Fly: Military Flight Training 1907-1945_ (USGPO, ISBN-10: 1530027888; ISBN-13: 978-1530027880).

In her exhaustive study, she describes how unit commanders at the front during World War One had to beat the egotism and competition-junkie nonsense out of the head of pilots just arriving from flight school - in some cases, almost literally.

And she cites the diaries of fighter pilots (and wannabe fighter pilots) dating from World War Two: the fighter pilots regularly nursed their wounded egoes, feeling disrespected. They felt they were owed more deference, because they could shoot down any other airplane out there, including our own. And the wannabe pilots who’d been assigned to bomber or airlift units felt equally disrespected, because the military wasn’t using their talents properly. Didn’t anyone realize fighters could shoot down any other airplane out there?

If you can translate these examples of truculent superiority-feelings into a defense of how fighter pilots are better at leading, therefore the rest of us must bend our knee their way, I can’t wait to hear it.

“It must suck to go through life with such a huge inferiority complex.
You have my sympathy.
Perhaps one day you will find something that you excel in.” [oldbill, post 29]

Repeating the same tired old phrasings isn’t much of a response, but it’s pretty common when someone gets told something they can’t bear to accept.

Fighter pilots are a net negative. Not feeling bound by traditions of duty or decency to those they regard as inferior, they pretty much do as they please, and push all the dull, unglamorous stuff off on everyone else. Since no one in the military can do a job entirely on their own, this results in fighter pilots being aided, supported, and succored by people who are less lazy, smarter, and of overall better character. Whom they are pleased to backstab and poormouth, undercut and sell down the river, whenever it suits.

They do tolerably when it comes to their own jobs, but since fighters are notoriously short of leg, they have to find something to occupy their time when they aren’t actually flying. They plot and connive against fellow members from other technical specialties and other weapon systems, pull underhanded tricks to improve their own chances for advancement, and those of cronies. If they run out of other people to one-up, they turn on each other. The limitations placed on conduct by ethics and morality have no purchase on them.

I didn’t come to these conclusions all at once. It took the better part of 29 years in uniform, during which I worked with many fighter pilots and met many more. I was forced to watch while they ruined the reputations of the rest of us and turned the service into a laughingstock. I resisted the implications of their behavior until after leaving active duty: that they are a net negative. As I said. Trust them at your peril.

Americans balk at any guilty-until-proven-innocent judgment of others, but they are being childish to resist, in the case of fighter pilots.

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