"Warfighter" is a term USAF has been using for several years. Since the majority of USAF personnel serve in roles that will likely never be involved in direct combat, the term is used to describe people who do actively fight and kill the enemy. It's meant to remind the support personnel that the USAF's primary job is fighting wars (and if you've ever worked with the Air Force you'll know why they need reminding).
USAF is fond of euphemisms, catchphrases, and slogans, the most infamous of course being the now-defunct Strategic Air Command's "Peace Is Our Profession" motto.
I spent twenty-three years on active duty with USAF. While we often laughed at the sometimes ridiculous language the PHBs and Public Affairs types dreamed up (my favorite - the Air Force Flight Test Center's "Warriors Supporting Warriors" motto, as if the civilian electrical/aerospace/computer engineers working on the F/A-22 Raptor or OV-22 Osprey projects were commuting to work every morning with knives in their teeth), we were never enraged and I don't know why we should have been. The Air Force is as prone (sometimes more so) to management buffoonery as any large corporation. Thinking up new words instead of using perfectly good ones like warrior is a symptom of this buffoonery.
Don't get mad. Rent a copy of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and laugh, because laughter is the best weapon of them all.
"He supported an army which murdered 100000-200000 people in two years. One of the biggest homicides in recent history. That's what you call constructive?"
Less destructive than the 500,000 Iraqi children you (you meaning the Left) claimed U.N. sanctions killed from 1991 - 2001.
Remember them? The 500,000 dead Iraqi kids?
Of course you don't.
P.S. I'm sure the Sunni fascists (a.k.a. Iraqi "Freedom Fighters") blowing up their fellow citizens with suicide car-bombers appreciate your loyal support.
Agreed the Saturn V would be most impressive as an outdoor exhibit.
However, Florida is not an ideal location, especially not the Florida coast. The salt air, combined with high tempatures and humidity, make for a very corrosive environment. The time and effort required to properly maintain a metal structure as large as the Saturn V would quickly exceed the investment KSC made enclosing the rocket in a building where humidity and temperature can be controlled.
I e-mailed this story to my local television news station. They're going to headline it on the 6:00 p.m. news.
Better stock up on toilet paper and canned goods before the hysterical masses wipe the shelves clean. . .
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Try living at Edwards Air Force Base for two years.
The nearest book store is a forty-minute drive away in Palmdale, CA.
You'd use it
Ask Harvard University President Lawrence Summers
Then again, maybe you better notThat's a lot of burnt popcorn!
Twenty-five years ago:
"Son, is this a marijuana pipe? Do you want me to call the police? You COULD go to JAIL for this!"
Today:
"Son, is this "Matrix Reloaded"? Do you want me to call the MPAA? You ARE going to JAIL for this!"
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
Reminds me of the scramble suits worn by narcotics agents in Phillip K. Dick's excellent A Scanner Darkly?
Hmmmmm. . .
[Soon to be a major motion picture too!]
"Warfighter" is a term USAF has been using for several years. Since the majority of USAF personnel serve in roles that will likely never be involved in direct combat, the term is used to describe people who do actively fight and kill the enemy. It's meant to remind the support personnel that the USAF's primary job is fighting wars (and if you've ever worked with the Air Force you'll know why they need reminding).
USAF is fond of euphemisms, catchphrases, and slogans, the most infamous of course being the now-defunct Strategic Air Command's "Peace Is Our Profession" motto.
I spent twenty-three years on active duty with USAF. While we often laughed at the sometimes ridiculous language the PHBs and Public Affairs types dreamed up (my favorite - the Air Force Flight Test Center's "Warriors Supporting Warriors" motto, as if the civilian electrical/aerospace/computer engineers working on the F/A-22 Raptor or OV-22 Osprey projects were commuting to work every morning with knives in their teeth), we were never enraged and I don't know why we should have been. The Air Force is as prone (sometimes more so) to management buffoonery as any large corporation. Thinking up new words instead of using perfectly good ones like warrior is a symptom of this buffoonery.
Don't get mad. Rent a copy of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and laugh, because laughter is the best weapon of them all.
Somebody tell the natives to hide.
"He supported an army which murdered 100000-200000 people in two years. One of the biggest homicides in recent history. That's what you call constructive?"
Less destructive than the 500,000 Iraqi children you (you meaning the Left) claimed U.N. sanctions killed from 1991 - 2001.
Remember them? The 500,000 dead Iraqi kids?
Of course you don't.
P.S. I'm sure the Sunni fascists (a.k.a. Iraqi "Freedom Fighters") blowing up their fellow citizens with suicide car-bombers appreciate your loyal support.
Asshole.
Agreed the Saturn V would be most impressive as an outdoor exhibit.
However, Florida is not an ideal location, especially not the Florida coast. The salt air, combined with high tempatures and humidity, make for a very corrosive environment. The time and effort required to properly maintain a metal structure as large as the Saturn V would quickly exceed the investment KSC made enclosing the rocket in a building where humidity and temperature can be controlled.
A much better location for an outdoor exhibit is the deserts of the southwest. Rust is almost unheard of in these locations as evidenced by the U.S. Air Force's selection of Tuscon, AZ as the site of it's largest Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (a.k.a. "The Boneyard") located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.I e-mailed this story to my local television news station. They're going to headline it on the 6:00 p.m. news. Better stock up on toilet paper and canned goods before the hysterical masses wipe the shelves clean. . .
I won a used Minolta DiMAGE II slide/film scanner on ebay for $162.50 a month ago.
I downloaded the GIMP for free.
Grokking the GIMP is available online.
HTH