Originally Posted by
cni187
Dude I don't know your background but try 10 years active duty flying cargo on a C-5 in the AF. Then you might know what abused is. 24 hour duty days flying all over the world. This job is cake compared to that.
You must have flown some extremely well maintained C-5s because the stats on the plane for the 29yrs I was associated with the AF was between a 70-80% in commission rate. With a rate like that, you cant be constantly abused.
In desert storm, and the alphabet soup conflicts folowing, you were "abused" what, maybe 50-100 times in your 10 years? Maximum? Assuming a 24 hour duty day for 10 times per year results in 240 hours of abuse annually.
This occured when you were 21-31 years old and not 50-65 years old, so theoretically you could handle it better physically.
The point is, you are not as good as you remember. This isn't the military (although the military does compensate better and has hazardous duty pay). An if you have to even make those comparisons, this TA must really, really suck.