Originally Posted by hindsight2020

Well, yes and no. The Buff community has been pretty much sidelined from CENTCOM taskings for much of my Air Force tenure. Much of that had to do with the tasking big Air Force has determined for the Buff in its hospice decades. Of course that doesn't appeal much to the crews, but it is what it is.

Closest I ever got to warheads on foreheads was yet another Thursday night DD run around Tumon on the G-spot drunken shuffle (pre-SAPR days, so shenanigans were admittedly easier to diffuse back then). Morale bottomed out in 2007 for the obvious reasons, and since then it's been one turkey shoot after another the community has been sidelined from (Lybia, et al). When this thing finally got approved, the food fight at Barksdale to get on the turkeyshoot train was rather embarrassing. In the Napoleon Dynamite movie of life, the Buff community has been Uncle Rico for a while now.

I don't have a dog in that fight anymore, as I'm just another quitter AETC warrior happily "hacking the mish" one perch setup at a time, collecting IP time and generally minding my own business, but that community was in desperate need of a participation trophy. Afaic, if it keeps them from BUFFooning yet another nuke cert testing cycle, misplacing a glowstick (again), or forcing more resiliency and SAPR briefings on the rest of us, then I say turkeyshoot away. That'd be the last airplane I wanna be on when a peer fight breaks out though.