It's devolving into the standard support vs ops argument. Yawn...
I'll leave it at this. Just because the door gets locked at 1630, doesn't mean Airmen aren't still working.
I've got many flyer friends and family, and perhaps it's the different airframes, but I've seen Ops Sq's shutdown for farewells, naming's or other (awesome) heritage events. Sure, there's still a crew or 2 out flying, but I've still got someone manning the CFP and doing high-priority tickets/outages.
The Ops Sq's here play football for PT and show up after 0900.. except for the crews flying or mission planning. But again.. the Cyber Amn I've got working tickets/outages... don't go to PT.
On an interesting note we did close the CFP on Fridays for training. Because the AF decided to separate a ton of experienced NCO's and deploy the rest I've got a ton of Amn who completed tech school.. but really can't do anything. Do you guys have customers that walk in?
Classes are had, tasks are checked off, learning is accomplished and experienced is shared from the (no kidding) 1 hot-shot TSgt we've got. We can't do that with customers walking in.
It's show significant impacts to ticket numbers going DOWN, but it still sucks we're closed on Fridays.