Yep. Corporate has ZERO loyalty. But the DOD is getting less.

I got out in late 2011, (VAW-121), after a 2XFOS when they were purging the ranks via selection boards. I went too far off the beaten path, and paid for it.

I got hired by a major oil company as a pilot. I hadn't even made it to FSI for my initial hire training, and they sold all of our planes and I came back to my office in a hangar, with no plane to fly. Managed to get a job the next day due to a friend who worked for another division of the company that needed engineers. Since then I've been laid off twice during buyouts/mergers/reorganizations, and had to reapply for my job with the new owners.

Corporate America has no loyalty. Maybe your immediate superiors have some to you, but the second they get promoted or terminated, you are back to no loyalty.

Don't **** nobody over, but you have to look out for number 1.

I do my job, work my ass off, but the day I get a class date at a major or a good paying flying contract job, is the day I drop my notice. How much notice depends on how fast the next job needs me.

If Delta called and said I'm hired and I need to be in ATL for New Hire training on Monday, I would call my boss tonight, let him know where my work truck is (CVG), and drop my laptop/blackberry/credit card off at the office on my way out of town.