Okay, I concede defeat here gentlemen. It was not my intention to say that the Air Force is free of stress or easy by any stretch of the imagination. It seems that what I said was interpreted that way by many of you. But yes, I do know how long the Air Force has been deployed abroad. I also know quite a bit about the different job fields within the Air Force. It is amazing what you can learn about a branch by having family members that serve, I guess since I enlisted in a different branch then my opinion is null and void though.

You are correct however, from my position within the military I probably have a skewed perspective of what is normal in a four year enlistment. And despite what you say I was not insulting anybody that chooses to serve in the military in any capacity. I was trying to point out something that the original poster would want to consider when deciding upon which branch to join.

If anybody here would like to continue this discussion via PM feel free. However I do not think that we need to derail this thread anymore with pointless bickering.