There will be about 400 empty ANG fighter cockpits over the next 4-5 years due to age out of the Guard force. Projected 10 year commercial hiring boom. Slights, real or imagined (mostly real, though) against fighter guys from Big AF left and right. Believe me, I'm not an oversensitive fighter guy. That said, nobody in today's RegAF can even remotely claim that fighter guys are coddled, stroked, favored, or otherwise elevated over non-fighter guys. It's damn near the opposite...in order to prove the USAF doesn't favor fighter guys, they've gone overboard in the opposite direction. I won't even get into the extraneous crap every pilot has to go through in today's RegAF.

Anyway, it's only important when you factor in the ANG force and the commercial opportunities. Can you say mass exodus like nothing seen before? I think it's coming.