Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Maybe a difference would be that most USAF pilots had already gone to college, had similar frat experiences and then went to UPT. We're not all Academy grads. Virginia Tech here.
Another difference, possibly, is that many Air Force pilots a year or two removed from UPT would be fighting in combat, dropping bombs and killing people while being shot at. A little more sphincter-tightening than flying an ILS in a Cessna.
You've obviously never watched me try to fly an ILS in a Cessna... Talk about a "come to Jesus" experience....
Never been shot at and never dropped a bomb on anything more significant than the crew lounge toilet. However, I have had plenty of sphincter-tightening moments flying a rundown Baron full of cancelled checks...or flying Lifeflight missions in less than ideal (or legal) conditions... or trying to deliver the freight to some crap ass 3rd world city by flying some crap ass cobbled together NDB approach in the middle of the night just to spend the night in the airplane waiting for the morning's load out.
Almost everyone here has made their bones one way or another. Call me cranky, but the civ/mil dick measuring contests are just getting old.
Why the F does it matter whether we call it "Class Drop", "Class Assignment", or "Sorry, Dude, enjoy your Newark layovers on the 717"
Honestly, who gives a sh!t.