[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by tabs

Back in the day my dad worked at Vandyland with a ret AF lite col whose GS 14 position got eliminated. He rifted a guy on base and was watering lettuce at the base bx for GS 14 pay.. That quickly.came to an end when Congress got wind of it..transfering him into the group.my dad was in. Which was monitoring Minute Man missle launchs once a month.

I've been to vandyland for a MMIII launch. It was February and when they do those launches they exercise the entire crew just as much as the missile they plucked from the prairie. So cute to see those kids from Minot, from the junior officers that sit in the LCCs and turn keys to the maintainers that turn wrenches, happy as hell to have a delay and spend another week in SoCal. Didn't see too much entitlement there, that's for sure. Quite a humbling trip...