Originally Posted by
Zoomie
I'll have to agree to disagree there. The list u chose minus San Diego isn't exactly a center of a lot of military flying. Sparce at best.
San Diego would have made more sense. Also, a maintenance facility as a good reason to host a pilot hiring fair? It's also a pilot hub, but I don't know how excited I would be to tour a maintenance facility unless I were a maintenance guy. Again, We'll have to agree to disagree.
This has nothing to do with a generational attitude of entitlement. I'm already with United. This smells like merely a PR event. If it gets some mil applicants hired, I'm all for it. I'd love to see more military here. However, I also know how many military want a job here and out of a few hundred that show up and spend a grand or more to come out to SFO, I'd like to find out how many get an interview.
Would I do it if I were loking for a job? Yes, I would.
The point in my original post is that SFO isn't exactly the center of military aviation by any means..., that is all. It does make sense to try and recruit local citizens of where growth is located, but it would make sense more as an open hiring fair and schedule a military event in a higher concentration of military aviation.
You're kidding right?
What PR points is the company winning here? What news outlet is this being published in?
Lemoore alone could fill a years worth of hiring classes, and is the USN's master jet base for the west coast. Fallon is home to NSAWC (or NADS, whatever it's called now) and encompasses the weapons school house for every USN flying thing, every community but the C-2 and E-6.
Ill add to Galaxy's list:
March AFB
Edwards AFB
Pt. Mugu
Klamath Falls
China Lake
Portland
Fairchild AFB
29 Palms
Vandenburg
Yuma
Tucson
Phoenix
Hill AFB
Whidbey Island
You're right, San Fran isnt exactly a flag waiving bastion of American military pride (maybe we could rent a location at UC Berekly)... Seems to me it is a fantastic central location for all these west coasters though. Maybe the company will repeat the process at Dulles for those on the other end. I'm proud they're doing this at all.