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"Hearts and minds" has been the statement that we have all heard in the past few years. I ,personally , do not agree with this new vision. I can not see how it will continue a legacy of being the greatest Air Force in the world. Does anyone else have light to shed on this subject?
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Where on earth is all of this drivel coming from? A newer, kinder, softer Air Force? Try that back in WWII when bomber crews from the Eight Air Force in England were loading up for another bombing run over Germany and a 100 ship formation would lose more than three quarters of their aircraft in a single mission. That's 75 B-17's with 10 member crews or 750 airmen. Just how would they do this softer, kinder leadership on the morning of a bomb run? Nudge the officers and crewman, then softly say its time to get up you have to fly another mission please. Oh and say good bye to your squadron mates because 750 of them might either die or spend the rest of the war in a prison camp. Softer, Kinder Air Force is BS. We train to fight in a war. We must be ready to do whatever it takes to win. We can ill afford to be everyone's pal and try to persuade them to be a warrior.
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SSgt Boyd Welch
I saw the change/difference when I went from Army to Air Force. My biggest and rudest awakening was how airmen who were grossly disrespectful to NCO's were treated. Every excuse was made for them and why they acted the way they did. When I came up, it was "Do it now. Do it right without question or get a boot up your *ss. Those days of good order and discipline are gone.....
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SSgt Carroll
My brother always said that the reason he joined the Air Force was so that he could get the benefits of being in the military without having to actually join the military.
My brother always said that the reason he joined the Air Force was so that he could get the benefits of being in the military without having to actually join the military.
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The Air Force can get.... "softer"? I know there are some branches within the Air Force that are hard core... flight crew member recovery teams... but after that... really? This is a real question?
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TSgt (Join to see)
Wall-to-wall counseling still exists in my career field, to an extent. . . We aren't your typical "chair force" job, so to say. After a stateside dwell time of less than a year, I have been told I am over due for a deployment. We may only have 6 month-ish deployments, but I will confidently say SF is the most deployed career field in the Air Force.
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how to be hard...<div><br></div><div>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2nlBtBnZU<br></div><div><br></div><div>you need to not have nice things</div><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ol2nlBtBnZU/hqdefault.jpg"></div><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2nlBtBnZU">USMC America's Pit Bull</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">Generation Kill America's Pit Bull</div></div><div style="clear:both"></div><div class="pta-box-hide"><i class="icon-remove"></i></div></div>
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Don’t agree one bit. I’m hung up on the new hair standard. For ladies, hair below the collar just looks plain messy and in professional. Go back to the old way.
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I would have to agree with you. It was one of the reasons I decided not to re-enlist after 9 and 1/2 years. I tended to call it the wusification of the Air Force. At my last duty station I kept hearing people refer to it as the "corporate Air Force" and that frustrated me just as much I thought to myself but we aren't a corporation we are the military start acting like it. I came in when BDU's were still being issued and had to shine your boots and at my first duty station you got your @$$ chewed before you got paperwork and getting your @$$ chewed was much more effective then getting paperwork. Also when I failed my pt test for push ups when they changed how we did the PFT and went overly strict on the push ups my whole work area would stop every hour and do 20 or 30 push ups. When I got out it seemed like the only time we were one team one fight was when you were deployed. State side it was all about everybody covering their @$$ and nobody truly cared about each other.
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