Aviators…

This was attributed to one of my former classmates in AOCS, he transferred over to the Air Force Reserves after his hitch in the Navy…


And if memory serves, it sounds like he hasn’t changed much…


In all honesty I have to say I agree with him 100%! Fighter pilots, and military aviators in general ARE NOT PC PEOPLE.  You can’t be and do your job well; you NEED an ego, and a lot of confidence in your ability to go into a fight and come out the winner.

The Old School

Written by Brigadier General Xxxxx, USAFR-Retired — a former Anchor-Clanker Navy Fighter Pilot who minces no words.  He tells it like it has become with the present day Air Force that is headed by Politically Correct Whoosies.

Some of you know that I was recently “retired” as the XXX Fighter Wing Commander. The decision was made by Brig Gen Xxxxx, the Xxxxx  Air Commander, who replaced me because he “just wants to change the culture at the XXXnd”. Not for cause or performance or any other reason. This officer never commanded anything bigger than an Air Control Squadron and somehow he wound up in charge. Heck, the guy probably got beat up in grade school everyday. I think it is indicative of what is happening in our Air Force and reinforces what Bruce MacLennan and the anonymous author have to say below. Well, I also have something to say about our changing Air Force and it’s quickly disappearing Fighter Pilot culture…

“How many scope dope drone operators does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to change the bulb, and one to kiss my ass. That’s right. I said kiss my ass. ‘Cause I’ve had it. The air superiority fighter and its PILOT are not dead and the Chinese are so far not impressed with drones.”

I am tired of Fighter Pilots suffering at the hands of all the pencil pushing REMFs and ladder climbing opportunists and shitty non-rated managers (who think they are leaders) just because the Air Force is currently more interested in feelings and sexual orientation than fighting. Not all officers have what it takes to lead warriors yet too many of them are in charge in our military. At this rate we may lose the next real war.

These shit bird officers need to be run out of leadership positions and get out of my face already. We have too many people in our military that feel the need to play political victim and go to court instead of just dealing with it themselves, no one can have any kind of fun anymore. Men and women can’t flirt, hug, look at anyone sideways, or drink beer out of mermaid mug because of you “victims” and your lawyers. Are you happy?

And while I’m at it… Fighter Pilots, who are willing to die so that we can have low prices at the gas pump and shop at the mall, should be able to throw the wildest parties they can manage without one uptight biddy coming in and stopping it. There were scads of women at The ’91 Tailhook party who were having the time of their lives, voluntarily being just as debauched as any of the men were. Everyone who flew a plane, or even knew someone who flew a plane, knew how wild those parties were and what went on. What does our society expect? A prayer service? It’s worse now than it was then.

“Victims” need to just throw some punches of their own whenever guys, gals, lesbos, or homos get out of line. Doesn’t our tax money go to teach all of our military how to fight? I’m not trying to make the idiotic “she had it coming” argument here, which would go something like “of course they grabbed her breasts, look how big they are.” Plus, just reaching out and grabbing some boob is wrong no matter what. When I was at Tailhook, even at our most drunken admin parties we never acted like that. No matter how hard I try I can’t think of an excuse good enough to do something like that. But it’s still nothing to lose a career over or get your panties in a wad.

Besides, fighter pilots are supposed to be aggressive assholes. That’s how we used to train them. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a military of fighter pilots who are gifted at giving sensitivity seminars. I want mad-dog, rabid killers going to battle for me and mine. Man or woman. When our homeland is threatened by Middle-Eastern Muslim radicals, or when we want to force our form of government on some poor, unsuspecting poppy growing shit hole, or when uppity North Korean despots develop nuke weapons, I want to be able to call on men and women who like to fight and drink.

I want an officer who knows how to whack some drunk in the balls when he grabs her tits, not call a press conference and a lawyer. If you’re a wimp who doesn’t know how to find the exit at a rowdy party, go fly a kite, not a jet fighter. Fighter Pilot should always be capitalized because it is a hard earned title – So there. Perhaps it’s time for me to retire.


 “Mongo” 

And this one comes from JP, one hellva interesting set of circumstances surrounding these two WWII pilots…


You really CAN’T make stuff like this up…

Comments

Aviators… — 15 Comments

  1. No, you can’t.
    And I agree 100% with him, I WANT a bloodthirsty, SOB in the cockpit!

  2. You and the anonymous writer are 100% correct: we will not survive a shooting war until the bureaucrats & politically-correct appointees are replaced with fighters & leaders – and those terms are not mutually exclusive.

  3. First, the video. Thank you for posting it – new to me. Truly heart warming.

    Second, it is the old,”Eagles soar but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.” In the end, it comes down to leadership. Hell of a mess when an Air Force Chief of Staff has a nickname, behind his back of course, of “Turd”.

    I don’t have an answer.

  4. Another Great Post and I agree with you and the anonymous writer.

    The Video really touched my heart.
    Thank You

  5. The video epitomizes the camaraderie that exists between veterans. It never goes away.

    As veterans, we take care of our own.

    On the former part of your fine post, I agree. The state of affairs of this politically correct bullshit is infuriating.

    I hate REMFs with a passion and during my time in uniform, always considered them barely one step above the communists–and on some days, I wasn’t even sure about that.

    Problem with REMFs (and we had them in law enforcement too, trust me) is that at the first sign of danger or trouble or shots fired in anger, they shit their pants, start barking out nonsensical commands and end up getting a whole lot of people hurt or dead.

    Then during the after-action debriefings, they develop the damndest cases of amnesia you’ve ever seen.

    More than once, we knocked the living shit out of some useless REMF who nearly got our fate sealed. But since he’d developed amnesia, we developed the same amnesia when the SP/MPs came, as did everyone involved.

    Now the goddamn REMFs are not only running the military, they’re running the Congress, the entire government, and most of our Fortune 500 companies.

    Sorry sons of bitches.

    –AOA

  6. These people want mad-dog killer types who can hold the line like the Spartans at Thermopylae when the shit hits the fan, but during peace time they want us all to tip our pinky finger out while sipping tea and trim the crust off our watercress sandwiches.

    They are afraid of us and will do everything in their power to make us weak so they won’t be scared, but then when the shit hits the fan they sit back and wonder why it takes us so long to win the fight when we have both hands tied behind our backs.

    Jackasses.

  7. This sounds like my old boss. He flew P-38s in the Big One and was an Okie to boot. He ruled his engineering department with Stalin like control but he would back his people to the hilt. He hated it when we had to provide acomodations for women on offshore platforms. He got into a fight with another department head over who had the authority to make “engineering decisions”. He ended up bypassing the office chain of command and wrote a memo directly to the other manager castigating him for making a bad technical decision. He was then called onto the carpet by his own manager but before the ass chewing could commence, he announced his intention to retire, thereby ending the session. They don’t make them like him anymore. I miss him.

  8. “While it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that, an’ Tommy, fall be’ind,” But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir” when there’s Trouble in the Wind….” Kipling had it right long ago, but the Politicians never seem to learn…

    BTW, look up the Story about the Air Force Vet who’s Mad because her kid’s school now gets to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Her Comments, well, let us just say that for someone who wore the Uniform of the Republic and took all that Tax Money……

  9. drjim- Concur (obviously)…

    Rev- You’re right

    WSF/SS- You’re welcome!

    AOA- I’m there with ya…

    Instinct- Nail on the head my friend!

    PE- He had the ‘balls’ to stand up, and had the ‘balls’ to hang it up…

    Les- Don’t EVEN get me started…

  10. I play golf and poker with a couple of retired fighter pilots; one AF, one a Marine. They’re easy to take money from, because they’ve never learned how to play it safe.

    They are also two of the most politically incorrect, hard-drinking, ornery cusses I’ve ever met.

    But they are exactly the type of people I want in cockpits when the crap hits the fan.