Originally Posted by
Deuce130
Well....they have a WS for just about everything these days. They're even thinking of a MX officer WS. I'm sure there's alot of pointy nose guys out there that yearn for the good ole' FWS days, but they're long gone. I think most of the animosity towards non-fighter guys wearing "the patch" is that many fighter guys thought of it as their own special little thing and now it's not just special to them anymore. Regardless of how anyone feels about who should or should not wear "the patch," I can safely say that anyone wearing it probably deserves it. Six months of a**-pain is still six months of pain. Anyone who knows anything about Intel WS for example, couldn't possibly say the grads from there aren't deserving of being WS grads. As for tankers, they eventually split into the Air Mobility WS and the USAF WS, but I'm sure the commanders in the field will still look to the tanker patch wearer when asking questions about tankers. More so than anything else, the patch tells commanders and peers that they're talking to someone who can get them better answers and results than anyone else in that community.
PS - Yes, I'm a WIC grad from AFSOC. So I guess I'm kind of biased. Back to the A-10 thread.
There is something extremely gay about being a weapons instructor on a plane wth no weapons
I tell this to my friend in my sq everyday who wears a patch, and who also feels the need to jazz up everything we do in my unit with cosmic tactics, even if it worked well before, guess she has to justify the patch.
I just don't know how the AF ever survived without everyone going to Nellis and being fighter pilot wannabes and calling each other by their cool callsigns.
Oh yeah, we had CADS in the C-130 and everyone else had a unique and specialized school.
I guess everyone has to feel special, next stop, Personnel weapons school, kinda makes that patch even the more special.