Originally Posted by Excargodog

Won’t name names, won’t name places, not even the airline, but had a conversation on a crew bus from the employee parking lot with an FO from a major who is probably a good decade plus younger than me. My “late start in the business” as he described it, I explained was due to time in the military as a back seater and then having to go the GI Bill route for civilian pilot training. Somewhat to my amazement, this triggered an anti military diatribe about the immorality of war and military service and he expressed revulsion for anyone (in general and me in particular) who would support our “corporatist and imperialist military policies.”

I really didn’t want to argue with a fool - OK, maybe I did - but I felt compelled to point out that his major airline was a CRAF airline and that if the proverbial balloon went up, he’d be carrying military pax and cargo just like AMC. Heck, they made up a considerable portion of the airlift for the whole TPFDL. Of course he instantly called me a liar, but through the magic of smartphones and G3 I was able to show him.

He rode in stunned silence all the rest of the way to the terminal.

Don’t they teach kids anything these days?