What's wrong with someone who want's to stay at a regional for a career - even with the knowledge of lousy pay ? Does everybody have to aspire to the "majors ?"

Posted a few years back: " Many years ago in the big blue bedroom at the USAF Air Command and Staff College, a bearded college professor walked out on the stage and said, "The biggest problem with the military is you don't have enough dumb people." Forty five minutes after being greeted with boos he got a standing ovation.

He said, "We take Baba out of the mountains, give him nice clothes (uniforms), three square meals a day and a roof over his head then teach him to drive a crew bus." After three years we say, "Baba, you got to improve your chances for promotion and increased responsibility by going to schools and eventually the NCO academy. "

Baba says, "Boss. I love my job. I want to do it for twenty years, make Airmen 1st class then retire and go back to the hills where I will be "SOMEBODY." So we pass him over for promotion, let him separate, then go to the mountains for another "Baba" to train."

Some folks might be happy driving the "Regional bus" for a career.