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<blockquote data-quote="capnkirk462" data-source="post: 4224102" data-attributes="member: 45148"><p>Ex Air Force(AF), cold war and Desert Shield/Storm era, here. The AF as a whole just is stupid anymore. I go to the AF reddit and can't believe what I am reading. If you thought my AF was mainly Chair Force then it is worse now. Everyone has "anxieties" and other B.S. crap. They aren't hitting the recruitment goals anymore. Plus even doing your job is not really a priority anymore, they want you to do volunteer work and get an education. If you don't, you won't get promoted. Plus they have this "Doing more with less." which really sucks for maintenance guys/girls. The suicide rate is getting higher. Oh they are asking recent retirees to come back and the AF might make them Warrant Officers, which hasn't been a thing since 1959. Some bases have gotten rid of the dorms/barracks as a whole. They rather just pay people to live of base. That leads to no social interaction among the troops, other than playing video games online. Hell when I was In West Germany I had at least 4 groups I was friends with. Most groups where about your job or music and the area you were from. If my era guys/girls were to go back and work like we did then they would look at us like we were 3 headed purple aliens. The amount of drinking we did would get us in "counseling" now. Plus some bases don't sell tobacco anymore and if you are under 21 and get caught with cigarettes or vaping you get to talk to your commander about that. It is so stupidly bad I worry if the AF can even pull of a minor war now, let alone a bigger one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="capnkirk462, post: 4224102, member: 45148"] Ex Air Force(AF), cold war and Desert Shield/Storm era, here. The AF as a whole just is stupid anymore. I go to the AF reddit and can't believe what I am reading. If you thought my AF was mainly Chair Force then it is worse now. Everyone has "anxieties" and other B.S. crap. They aren't hitting the recruitment goals anymore. Plus even doing your job is not really a priority anymore, they want you to do volunteer work and get an education. If you don't, you won't get promoted. Plus they have this "Doing more with less." which really sucks for maintenance guys/girls. The suicide rate is getting higher. Oh they are asking recent retirees to come back and the AF might make them Warrant Officers, which hasn't been a thing since 1959. Some bases have gotten rid of the dorms/barracks as a whole. They rather just pay people to live of base. That leads to no social interaction among the troops, other than playing video games online. Hell when I was In West Germany I had at least 4 groups I was friends with. Most groups where about your job or music and the area you were from. If my era guys/girls were to go back and work like we did then they would look at us like we were 3 headed purple aliens. The amount of drinking we did would get us in "counseling" now. Plus some bases don't sell tobacco anymore and if you are under 21 and get caught with cigarettes or vaping you get to talk to your commander about that. It is so stupidly bad I worry if the AF can even pull of a minor war now, let alone a bigger one. [/QUOTE]
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