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2020-06-12 Science & Technology

More than 8,500 airmen volunteer to join U.S. Space Force

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-12 02:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ...Mainly because USAF is not a good place to be an airman these days. (HINT: very much along the lines of, "the floggings will continue until morale improves".)

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-06-12 07:06|| 2020-06-12 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The Air Force recently announced an open bidding process to select the future location of U.S. Space Command headquarters, which for now will remain in Colorado Springs. The headquarters of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are located in the Pentagon. The Space Force would be no different.

Posted by b 2020-06-12 08:04|| 2020-06-12 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Mainly because USAF is not a good place to be an airman these days...-Mike
Query: Fewer and fewer *manned* planes (not drones!) and steadily increasing numbers of 'zampolits' (AKA as Diversity Officers and other REMF staff solely interested in SJW)...?

Posted by magpie 2020-06-12 12:32|| 2020-06-12 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, lets be fair - how many airmen are in Air Force because they've read SF as kids?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-12 16:54|| 2020-06-12 16:54|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Mainly because USAF is not a good place to be an airman these days...-Mike
Query: Fewer and fewer *manned* planes (not drones!) and steadily increasing numbers of 'zampolits' (AKA as Diversity Officers and other REMF staff solely interested in SJW)...?
Posted by: magpie 2020-06-12 12:32

Magpie,

As I understand it, it's a combination of several things - unending deployments, micromanaging, mandatory fun, charity, and volunteer work, and essentially seven day a week work schedules for a lot of the maintainers. Got out 22 years ago, and it was starting to go south then - we ran the guys who won Desert Storm out in the Great Drawdowns, and what was left was all too often MASH's Major Burns with actual authority.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-06-12 17:20|| 2020-06-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

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