Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
AF leadership is so self-indoctrinated that it can't even bring itself to comprehend what the loudly-and-clearly conveyed complaints are from the fleeing rank-and-file.
That's right on - love the term self-indoctrinated- and funny too - funny because it's so cyclical. Saw it all before. In the early 90s, fighter pilots bailing left and right. Below-the-zone "leadership" couldn't understand (yet told us "you will not go home to your family when your work is done - you will stay at work 12 hours" just for face time if nothing else (and it would have been longer if not for crewrest)). Bonus didn't help much. Congressmen sent their aides to ask us directly. I think that's when they came out with the leather jacket for pilots, which then became the leather jacket for aircrew, which then became the leather jacket fo pretty much everyone.
Now the airlines are hiring - a lot - again and I see all the same **it.