Fw: Where Have All The Fighter Pilots Gone?

["Don Greenlaw" <dgreenlaw@cox.net>]

Forwarded. This is right on target.

Semper fi & Merry Christmas,
Don Greenlaw
----- Original Message ----- 
From: bclarkusmc@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:29 AM
Subject: Where Have All The Fighter Pilots Gone?


FYI...

From: Boyce Clark

Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:02:12 AM
Subject: Where Have All The Fighter Pilots Gone?
















 I got this from a  friend of mine. Thought it good enough to pass 
on................ Boyce








                         Beginning with McNamara the powers that be decided 
to run the Air Force like an 8 to 5 business.  Warrior leaders of General 
LeMay's stature were no longer to be found.  The fundamental job of the 
militay, "kill people and break their things", became seriously hampered by 
"rules of engagement" whose guiding logic is political, not successful 
combat.  I agree with the author.  If and when the US military is defeated, 
it will be running the best Day Care centers in the world.  GCB.



                               We used to go to the Officers Club or NCO 
Club Stag Bar on Friday afternoons to drink, smoke and swap lies with our 
comrades.  Think about this when you read the rest of the letter below.

                               What happened to our Air 
Force/Marines/Army/Navy.............  (or  Military)?

                               Drinking then became frowned on. Smoking 
caused cancer and could "harm you." Stag bars became seen as 'sexist'. 
Gradually, our men quit patronizing their clubs because what happened in the 
club became fodder for a performance report. It was the same thing at the 
Airman's Club and the NCO and/or Top 3 clubs. Now we don't have separate 
clubs for the ranks.

                               Instead we have something called All Ranks 
Clubs or community clubs. They're open to men and women of all ranks....from 
airman basic to general officer. Still, no one is there. Gee, I wonder why. 
The latest brilliant thought out of Washington is that the operators 
("pilots?") flying remote aircraft in combat areas from their plush desk at 
duty stations in Nevada or Arizona should draw the same combat pay as those 
real world pilots actually on board a plane in a hostile environment.  More 
politically correct logic?

                               They say that remote vehicle operators are 
subject to the same stress levels as the combat pilot actually flying in 
combat. ----- REALLY...you're bull-shitting me!!!???

                               Now that I've primed you a little, read on.

                               There are many who will agree with these 
sentiments, but they apply to more than just fighter pilots. Unfortunately, 
the ones with the guts to speak up or push for what they believe in are 
beaten down by the "system."

                               "Unfortunately  there is a lot of truth in 
the following text - supposedly, Secretary Gates had a force beating the 
bushes  to learn who wrote this....

                               Where have all the fighter pilots gone?

                               Good Question.

                               Here is a rant from a retired fighter pilot 
that is worth reading:

                               It is rumored that our current Secretary of 
Defense recently asked the question, "Where are all the dynamic leaders of 
the past?"  I can only assume, if that is true, that he was referring to 
Robin Olds, Jimmy Doolittle, Patton, Ike, Boyington, Nimitz, etc.?

                               Well, I've got the answer:

                               They were fired before they made  Major!

                               Our nation doesn't want those kinds of 
leaders anymore. Squadron commanders don't run squadrons and wing commanders 
don't run wings. They are managed by higher ranking dildos with other 
esoteric goals in mind.

                               Can you imagine someone today looking for a 
LEADER to execute that Doolittle Raid and suggesting that it be given to a 
dare-devil boozer - his only attributes: he had the respect of his men, an 
awesome ability to fly, and the organizational skills to put it all 
together?  If someone told me there was a chance in hell of selecting that 
man today, I would tell them they were either a liar or dumber than shit.

                               I find it ironic that the Air Force put 
Brigadier General Robin Olds on the cover of the company rag last month.

                               While it made me extremely proud to see his 
face, he wouldn't  make it across any base in America (or overseas) without 
ten enlisted folks telling him to zip up his flight suit, get rid of the 
cigarette, and shave his mustache off.

                               I have a feeling that his response would be 
predictable and for that crime he would probably get a trip home and an 
Article 15. We have lost the war on rugged individualism and that, 
unfortunately, is what fighter pilots want to follow; not because they have 
to but because they respect leaders of that ilk. We've all run across that 
leader that made us proud to follow him because you wanted to be like him 
and make a difference. The individual who you would drag your testicles 
through glass for rather than disappoint him.

                               We better wake the hell up!  We're asking 
our young men and women to go to really shitty places; some with unbearable 
climates, never have a drink, have little or no contact with the opposite 
sex, not look at magazines of a suggestive nature of any type, and adhere to 
ridiculous regs that require you to tuck your shirt into your PT uniform on 
the way to the porta-shitter at night, in a blinding dust storm, because 
it's a uniform.

                               These people we're sending to combat are 
some of the brightest I've met but they are looking for a little sanity, 
which they will only find on the outside if we don't get a friggin' clue. 
You can't continue asking people to live for months or years at a time 
acting like nuns and priests. Hell, even they get to have a beer.

                               Who are we afraid of offending? The guys 
that already hate us enough to strap C-4 to their own bodies and walk into a 
crowd of us?  Think about it.

                               I'm extremely proud of our young men and 
women who continue to serve. I'm also very in tune with what they are 
considering for the future and I've got news for whoever sits in the White 
House, Congress, and our so-called military leaders. Much talent has and 
will continue to hemorrhage from our services, because wanna-be warriors are 
tired of fighting on two fronts - - one with our enemies, another against 
our lack of common sense.

                               Take it or leave it....that's just the way 
it is, no. if's and's or but's...................

                               Worthy of passing on???  OK...........if not 
shit can it!










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