(04-05-2024, 05:36 AM)727Sky Wrote: Marines are not having a problem recruiting and there is a reason as their motto has always been do or die. Some of the best pilots I have flown with were all Marine aviators. A Marine is a grunt first (rifleman) and anything else is secondary. However they usually have the worse living conditions of any of the services.
The Air Force would open a base and build the living quarters and officer and enlisted clubs and then end up several thousand feet short of the required length for their runway as they were out of money. Runways always got finished with more money added...
Army and Marines would build the runway first while living in tents and that is where they remained until building materials could be scrounged !!
After all these years, 45 years to be exact, I still smile when I hear someone rag on the Air Force.
Feels like it was just yesterday when I was first called out for being an officer in the Air Force. I heard someone say I was straight up Air Force, all brains, no boobs, and no butt.
I thought it was hysterical. I laughed till I cried. It was funny and true.
Those were the days.
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