Originally Posted by
new guy
The year was 2007. I remember it well. It didn't effect me as much because I was in year two of flight school, but all the instructors lost their minds.
And that statement is exactly right. Sergeant Majors hated flight suits and finally convinced the brass to get rid of it. You're just like everyone else in the Army Soldier, with the exception of the cost of your training literally quadrupling any other field that WE actually train.
Sorry to have hijacked the thread. I genuinely feel worse for the AF guys because when you come into the Army, they let you know you're a garbage person day one. The AF always had the globo-gym feel for QOL. "Here at Air Force, we're better than you, and we know it." Now it looks like even that's going away for the pilots.
Yeah, I couldn't remember the year this happened but I was a LT in the USCG and I remember meeting some Army aviators shortly after that happened when I was at our aviation training center in Mobile who were like "next we won't be allowed to have pilot wings because they're too distinctive for the Army". They acted like their souls were crushed. I truly felt for them. But on the bright side, at least you guys still have wings. Glass half full!