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posted ago by FighterPilot ago by FighterPilot +3734 / -1

Title says it all. I've worked in the civilian world a couple years, then got bored and went to fly jets. It is awesome leading dudes into war. Cant get into all of it, but things were very tense until Trump got elected then things got immediately better. Less risk of being shot down by surface to air missiles and the daily encounters with other adversary jets decreased.

Came back and things were good. Then in the last few years the little "fighter" culture that we had left was taken from us. "No more songs.... your callsign is offensive change it.... your squadron bar has to be designated as a heritage room with only certain people having access to it.... no offensive jokes... no offending anyone for any reason.... if a person files a complaint for being harrased for putting his hat on the bar, then the offender is removed and presumed guilty"

We have a stressful and fast paced job, it's not for everyone, everyone has known bros that died. Personally, depending on the mission or training I have a near death experience about every other week. Same with everyone else at my work. We are more like a football team than an office. We do dangerous stuff and are highly skilled. It is very fun and exciting, so why the pilot shortage????

Because we can make more money being a buss driver for the airlines, and the political bullshit isn't worth making 1/3 of what you get on the outside..... we are gone probably half the year with TDYs and when home, we are the only people on base working 12 to 14 hr days. (Besides Maintenance, those dudes are overworked like crazy) then we cant even get finance to help us because they work 930 to 1530 with an hour lunch break. Same with Comm, and CE the building has been leaking for the last 8 months but "sorry, not on our list yet".... dudes have timers on their computers to see exactly how many hours we waste per day just waiting on the gov web page to open.....

Government ruins everything it touches. With how retarted the government is getting, I see no end to the PC bullshit. Only an increase, and even more cultural training stuff on the horizon. How do you make people quit the best job in the world..... make their life miserable.

Currently I am working on 3 different avenues to generate passive income. As well as creating a right wing GoFundMe, but I am not a nerd and know nothing about computers. Haha so it is hard finding tech people who are right wing, especially since this censorship, it kinda killed that plan. So I am having to restart.

Anyway, I dont know what this rant was about. But I thought I would share it with you pedes. Since I'm sure it is the same at your workplace.

RAGE

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SimPilot 14 points ago +14 / -0

RAGE

Do a staff tour to increase rage. Magical 20 years mark seems further away each day.

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kogar 8 points ago +8 / -0

Former airman here whose final tour was in a HQ unit. Felt like those dementors in the Harry Potter movies - sucking your soul until you become a lifeless husk. (Sorry for going into nerd mode there)