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.
“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.