Yeah, there is an option for you. How 'bout you man-up and serve your country instead of yourself. Then you might understand that drill weekend or a 4 month deployment to the Persian Gulf isn't an advantage to your personal schedule. Additionally most of the guys I know are taking pay cuts for the privledge of getting shot at.
Do you not read the newspapers? The country is AT WAR in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
And as for Christmas, I spent the last Christmas morning with a bunch of AA pilots, mostly based out of Dallas and Miami. Alarm Red mortar attack at 6 am followed by outgoing arty and an F-15E dropping a 500lb'er just outside the wire. Followed by opening presents.
Sorry you had to work for them.
The exact same crew of dudes is getting ready to go back in the summer.
Last edited by 1Seat 1Engine; 09-19-2006 at 12:22 PM.