BTW, for those that knew him, I'm helping to organize both the memorial service at Eglin, and a scrapbook of photos and any other memories for his boys. Many of us are writing letters addressed to them to tell them stories and what kind of awesome dude he was. If you have anything to contribute, PM me.
While you may not be overly impressed with Steve Fossett like I am, your lack of class and disrespect toward someone who gave a ton to aviation,... and was a great guy at the same time,... is disappointing.
It's the first step to accompanied tours. I would be shocked if it took more than a year for the first accompanied PCS orders to be cut now. Next up for AUAB and ADAB will probably be a commissary and school. I have heard MANY senior leaders express the intent to make Al Udeid "The Rammstein of the middle east". I believe this is the next step in that transition.
Stumbled on this thread earlier in the week, has a lot of color photos of aircraft during the Korean War.
Link: https://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?195594-Allied-Aircraft-in-Korea
Examples...
Beer and American tail...I think that's worth fighting for (and admiring).
I'm betting that "your Airmen" don't think as highly of you as you think they do. It comes across as HUGELY condescending. 99.69% are big boys and girls and if treated so, act so. For that percentage of airmen who fcuk it up, intentionally or not, the chain of command, with the first NCO in the chain is supposed to handle this. And it only gets bumped up until the lowest link in that chain fixes it.