MD10PLT

You bring up a good topic. I recently went through an AOC school, and at times, I was shocked as to how much the "subject matter experts" ... aka SMEs ... had no freaking clue. It took me a while to learn that I just had to agree with them and shake my head yes instead of trying to change something that I wasn't going to be able to change.

But there's a much bigger problem boiling in the Air Force. I really don't know how to express it here in written form. The AF isn't focused on the mission ... that is, operations. There are empires being built in every core area of the AF except for Operations. Additionally, in many AFSCs, the AF has become a jobs program, where people come to work, sit on their butt, and do absolutely nothing all day.

Have you noticed how you have to be a finance expert now, and how every time you show to work there's a new computer based ancillary training or some required material that's been shoved down by some office somewhere in the AF? And at a moments notice, those outside offices can render your squadron not fit for operations with the click of an email.

I used to love the AF, but I hate it now because it resembles to me everything that is wrong with our government. It is broken, seriously broken. It amazes me that we don't have aircraft falling out of the skies. I chalk that up to the crews who are scared to death and who are trying to self preserve their lives and or their jobs.