{"id":82,"date":"2008-02-19T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/feeling-the-pain.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:59:00","slug":"feeling-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/feeling-the-pain.html","title":{"rendered":"Feeling the Pain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to say too much about this, since I&#8217;m just a weather weenie in the Reserves, but I have been noticing the USAF getting a lot of press about how we&#8217;re suffering manpower cuts and cannibalization of aircraft to keep our missions viable in the Global War on Terror, while the Army and Marine Corps are being funded to increase their ranks by thousands.<\/p>\n<p><em>Never mind that for every increase in Army capability, you need Air Force <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospaceweb.org\/aircraft\/transport-m\/c17\/c17_04.jpg\"><em>airlift<\/em><\/a><em> to fly them to the fight, Air Force <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richard-seaman.com\/Aircraft\/AirShows\/Chicago2002\/Kc135\/Kc135Banking15DegreesLeftFrom1oClock.jpg\"><em>aerial refuelers<\/em><\/a><em> to gas the airlift, Air Force <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageflight.org\/images\/Aircraft%20Photos\/A_10_burning_tank.jpg\"><em>close-air-support<\/em><\/a><em> to help the ground troops, and Air Force <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afa.org\/magazine\/sept2005\/0905warriors.asp\"><em>PERSONNEL<\/em><\/a><em> to support various facets of their requirements(among those personnel are weather folks &#8212; read the Air Force Magazine article linked with &#8220;PERSONNEL&#8221; to learn more about the &#8220;Battlefield Airmen&#8221;).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakeassociates.us\/images\/combat_weather_man_w_k4b.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drakeassociates.us\/images\/combat_weather_man_w_k4b.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">I have no idea who this guy is, but he&#8217;s doing &#8220;Combat Weather&#8221; with an Army Aviation unit.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/02\/18\/airforce.wornout.ap\/index.html\">Apparently someone is launching quite the press campaign about it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0109830\/\">Forrest Gump<\/a> would say, &#8220;That&#8217;s all I have to say about that.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to say too much about this, since I&#8217;m just a weather weenie in the Reserves, but I have been noticing the USAF getting a lot of press about how we&#8217;re suffering manpower cuts and cannibalization of aircraft to keep our missions viable in the Global War on Terror, while the Army and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[622,13,618],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":158,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/06\/stunned.html","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":0},"title":"Stunned!","date":"06 June 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I am stunned!For the uninitiated in the Air Force\/military lifestyle, Dave and I are what you might consider \"middle management\". 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