Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I will agree with you that YOUR military and MY military were different animals.
Some of it my be personal, some of it may be the times, some of it may be the service we each came from; but I DID HAVE TREMEDOUS loyalty to my service and my peers.
My above post was MY personal struggles I brought to the civilian world and on top of that - my contract job was in many ways very military - so it was easy to give the same to them that I had given through my 20 previous years.
I'm still not happy about it on a number of levels.
First I still wish I were doing the same flying - aircraft and mission - from my old job, but with the security of my current job (even with its' recent problems) and second I wish I could have given them even more time before moving on, but NOT being a contractor and being tied to a flight hour = money is golden.
I am truly saddend by some of the stories I hear of people's experiences in the USAF and I am very thankful that those were not my experiences.
Different Services=different experiences, different platforms=different experiences, different squadrons=different experiences. I for one have had some great readyroom experiences, sometimes flying an aircraft or mission that I didn't like at all, what made it awesome was the people and their dedication and loyalty to each other and the mission. Many of my friends at different squadrons had very negative experiences. Even in a training squadron on shore duty, training our next generation of warriors, I had a sense of great loyalty to my brothers....we infused loyalty and dedication by stressing the importance of our mission (e.g. supporting troops in contact and saving lives). I am proud to have served.
Now to steer this conversation back to its original intent....best way to get a CFI gig anyone?!?!
