I mean seriously...I know this AF guy with a big sticker that read "one shot, one kill" on his truck, he is a secertary...never been deployed and if he was wouldn't see anything different then his desk other then being in a different uniform.
Or how about the police force...come on...what is it 5 weeks training and now your a trained mall guard. Yet htese guys really think they could hold there own against others...lame.
No hard feelings against them but serouly they should know there place, they support the branches who are risking their life, can't do it without the AF but like I said they need to calm down. Besides that, they are at least a step above the Coast Guard...
2007-07-11 05:28:50 · 14 answers · asked by Mike C 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Buy the way, I am in the military, 8 yrs
2007-07-11 06:03:08 · update #1
Yeah I think its always funny to listen to the AF go on about how tough they have it. Just last weekend I listened to an Airforce guy tell me how hard his 4 month deployment was and how he almost made it through the Army Airborne Training. I just sat back and laughed not telling him I was a paratrooper. Then he tried to tell me that the airforce was fighting the war all I had to do was tell him to look at the CNN Casualty report for Coalition Forces in Iraq. How many Soldiers and Marines were lost compared to Airman? It's all cool until they try to compare their selves to us. Yeah they play a part but don't try to make it it look like your branch is hardcore by degrading the true sacrifices of the real military.
2007-07-12 00:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by Jared G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they are a few hard core sections of the AF. We have the Para rescue and controlers. Do some research on your own so you can form you own opinon about that AFSC. We also have RADS (RAPID AREA DEPLOYMENT SQ) this is were we are sent at the moments notice to the middle of BFE and create a base of operations. Take RED HORSE unit the AF equilivant of the See Bees. I can tell you that every service all there people be it Marines, Army, Navy, AF, Or Coast Guard will not all have combat rolls. I just will say this, the ones you see try to make the most noise about as you put it ONE SHOT, ONE Kill have not seen combat for most point. Most combat vets that say action consider it a thing they had to do and would not really wish that anyone else would have to do that again. I have served in combat yes people did fall on both sides.
2007-07-11 12:15:11 · answer #2 · answered by Jay P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like when the Army supported the Air Force by going in to Kuwait to clean up all the little pieces that were left after we were done with Sadam's army? People put dumb stickers on their cars. And a secretary has a big imagination. So what? One of the army dudes I know is a freaking cook. Now THAT's a support role. Find me an infantryman who doesn't want A10s and AC130s on call 2 seconds away. For 10 years we (WE being the Air Force) fought a war over Iraq while the Army and Marines tried not to get their rifles stuck so far up their butts that they couldn't shoot them. Yeah, ground forces are risking their lives more now, but that wasn't the case before the Iraq war. In the Air Force it's mostly the officers who do the fighting, unlike the army, so if you want to meet the guys who are risking their lives you'll need to drag your lazy *** out of the BX and onto the flightline. And obviously you've never met a PJ or combat controller.
2007-07-11 08:07:51 · answer #3 · answered by Gretch 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't matter what branch of the military you go into, or what you do while serving. The thing is, you have enough patriotism and are enough of a man(or woman) to want to serve your country. Instead of sitting around taking cheap shots at someone who does serve, why don't you get off you lazy butt and enlist? Without truck drivers, no war could be won. It's just as improtant to deliver supplies and equipment when and where it's needed, as it is to pull a trigger.
May God bless and protect those who serve in the military, and may those who sit on their butts enjoying the freedoms that others fought to provide them, grow large yellow stripes down their back and live their lives trying to hide it. Oh, wait, that would be you wouldn't it?
2007-07-11 05:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by randy 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Air Force is a branch of the DOD and it does not matter what an individual does in whatever branch they are in, whether riding a desk or on the front lines. To all who serve thank you. To all who make fun you suck.
2007-07-11 05:57:14 · answer #5 · answered by wow one 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never met a "hard core" Airman.
All the ones I've come across have been there to just do their job.
If you are willing to join and risk your life, that's good enough to me.
US Army Veteran
1990-1996
M1A1 Abrams
2007-07-11 06:05:32 · answer #6 · answered by Rawbert 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
everyone had the choice at 18 to enlist or not to enlist. my choice was to enlist as a united states marine. i chose to become a marine because i heard it was the toughest branch to join. i needed to test my self. marines are the elite out of all branches of the military and i'm proud to always be one! you can't tell me a 6 week camp in the air force with your weekends off is the same as 13 weeks of endless running and training in marine corps boot camp is the same thing! i went in at 6'0 weighing 195 lbs. and came out at weighing 160lbs. sometimes we didn't get to eat, and if you think about it are you all ways going to have time to eat in a combat zone? it was the toughest 8 years of my life but i will never trade it for the world. i know that there are marines that feel the same......................
2007-07-11 06:48:55 · answer #7 · answered by thomas c 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well i try not to bash any MOS because without cooks i wouldnt eat, without MPs would i feel safe and feel justice was being caried out, with out warhouse personel, would i get my weapons, food, gear etc.? Every job is important in the military. I can prove it, would our government sped money on somthing they didnt hav to? Any one who serves should feel a sense of pride. i know i will.
2007-07-11 06:39:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
N O, The United States Air Force is part of the
Armed Forces of the United States of America
and should be afforded the highest respect like the
rest of the US MILITARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
US ARMY(RET) 1958 - 1979
I also CONCUR with randy c!!!!
2007-07-11 05:41:02 · answer #9 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I always wondered why all the branches teach you to aim center mast, but the Air Force tells you to Aim High....
2007-07-11 05:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Dan 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋