Space & Missiles Flight Suits (GONE!)

[Gravedigger]

I get to my first assignment and am promptly cut off from the entire space community at a geographically separated unit, like the vast majority of my and other wings. No Flags, no higher education unless you claw for it, and a four year tour doing something of questionable relevance to the last twenty years of war. If I stepped on Schriever for a little while and tried to shoot the shit with my 'peers' in Space, the disjunct between their ops world and mine would be difficult to bridge, what little information we could exchange for security or understanding reasons.

Fuckin A, ain't that the truth. I take it you're a SWS or SPCS dude? And you won't be able to have children following this assignment?

So, foul on the 13S guys for not being able to know ourselves enough to have that community. Without community, you can't build a heritage, for ourselves or as a part of the larger Air Force.

Well said

the only parts of our work that most people see, to include many of us "on the inside", are the parts we hate the most. It's epidemic of the AF as a whole, but seemingly all the worse in our little part of the force.

One of the positives about the Springs...the CGOC is not frequented...by anyone. I've also never seen a person wearing a reflective belt at Schriever, Pete or the Mountain.

Space has a future, both in mission and community.

Don't mean to step on your toes, man, but we've got to work on ourselves before anything else gets better. Unappreciated? Maybe. Sometimes.

You've said it all very well, and I wholeheartedly agree with working on ourselves. Personally, I think that cutting the last of the ties with missiles would be a big step in the right direction. Not sure what your experiences have been, but in the sat C2 world it's a pretty big issue. What do you do with a Captain that knows absolutely nothing about space? You either put them on crew sitting next to an A1C or you make them a mission commander. Meanwhile, the Lts that have been doing the mission for 3 years and are the system experts can't upgrade or take on leadership roles because of the constant influx of new missileers. Some of our units have tried to counter this problem, but that only ends up screwing the missile Capts who are then working for a senior Lt/junior Capt.

Anyways, not to get on another rant...it's nice to know there's another space dude lurking around!

[busdriver]

This is someone we clearly need to clone thousands of to replace the "warriors" currently occupying large parts of the USAF.

It ain't one, it's most rescue guys. The default in rescue is "yes I can."

[slackline]

It ain't one, it's most rescue guys. The default in rescue is "yes I can."

TOML.