Originally Posted by thrust

When I’m gone, I’m not treated like a child, the hotels are pretty good, the transportation is mostly on time, and the biggest hassle is whether I can walk to get food or if I have to (gasp!) use UberEats or something.

When I’m home, I’m home. No DTS silliness, no active duty jobs program make-work, no careerist bosses that I have to pretend to want to be someday in an attempt to avoid a 179/365 day deployment to a third world cesspool, all to be some pawn in support of ForeverWar.

This job is way better than my active duty job, it’s not even close. And I left one of the best active duty flying jobs in the entire military.