What
ON EARTH has the Iraq/Afghanistan war got
ANYTHING to do with 'binsleepen's' attitude of not giving a hoot about the T&C's of a low-cost airline and wanting a type rating against all costs/odds?!?!?
Since when does the Iraq/Afghanistan conflict (or "serving one's country for 20 years") entitle
anyone to
any job? Quite honestly, I think it's shameful for a few individuals to drag the hundreds of deaths into this debate in order to have a go at me!
Though not in the air force, I've also served my country in the military, but guess what: when I came out of the military I had to fend for myself again! That's what I meant with leeching off the taxpayer: most civil servants (incl military!) have
no idea how things work in the real world and are used to thinking the government (or some large organization) owes them everything, including a job, a paycheck and a roof over their heads. Well...welcome to the real world, things just do
not work that way in a commercial environment, ask anyone who's in the holding pool...
Second, there are two major things that I learned in the military: 1) it's working as a collective which by the way is also handy in the civil world to get good T&C's
and 2) not to stab anyone in the back. For example stabbing senior F/O's in the back by being a DEC, or thinking you have priority over anybody else (including many very experienced 737 or Airbus drivers) in the holding pool because you spent 20 years in the military.
Binsleepen, I don't care where you fly (yet I respect the dangerous missions/environment where our foolish politicians might have sent you, let's not start that debate here...), but I
do care about your whole selfish "I-don't-give-a-damn-as-long-as-I-get-my-type-rating-and-my-500-hours-on-type" attitude which is ruining our entire industry! That's the bottom line, not the war in Iraq/Afghanistan!
