Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Totally missed this post earlier.
Tell that to the first dudes that dropped UAVs out of pilot training (I was there for that fiasco)! When we showed up to training there was no talk of UAVs going to studs out of UPT. Then about 3 weeks prior to our drop we are told to expect 5 UAVs out of 15 assignable studs! It the same speech we were told that if you go to the UAV, you will most likely not ever leave the UAV...and OBTW, the commitment is still 10 years... There is so some good news...there are now two bases you can go to! Two garden spots...Creech or Cannon!
True, that sucks. It also sucked building my own tent in BF middle E after 9/11.
Those guys weren't expecting what they got, and neither were my buds and I. But I signed on the dotted line, and I honored my commitment--which, by the way, was to serve my country, and not myself. If those UAV-assigned guys were that averse, they could have SIE'd and taken their chances. Apparently they decided not to do that.
Sure, it sucked. Leadership generally sucked, especially on the O-5/6 and above level. Deployments sucked, my airframe sucked, pretty much everything other than my buds sucked.
But I signed on the dotted line, and I was not entitled to anything more from the AF than my paycheck and associated benefits.
This ridiculous sense of entitlement must be a generational thing. Enough already.