They're talking about the military here though. I have to assume the military actually wants critical thinking and outside the box ideas to advance their cause, at least at the officer level, one would hope. Unlike the airlines who profess to want that, but in reality, to just stfu and color. Entirely different things with different goals.If the man says wear a red t-shirt if you want on the ride, wear the red t-shirt and get on the ride.
Or don't. It don't make Mista Chow no difference if you do or do not!
If the man says wear a red t-shirt if you want on the ride, wear the red t-shirt and get on the ride.
Or don't. It don't make Mista Chow no difference if you do or do not!
They're talking about the military here though. I have to assume the military actually wants critical thinking and outside the box ideas to advance their cause, at least at the officer level, one would hope. Unlike the airlines who profess to want that, but in reality, to just stfu and color. Entirely different things with different goals.
No. I'm holding the military to a higher standard than an airline in that they actually want people that can. In all forms.So now people w/out degrees can't think outside the box, or think critically?
Uncle Joe Stalin had the exact same thing going right before the war. That was relatively short lived and caused a bit of confusion, when the pilot was a sergeant and as the commander of the aircraft was the ranking officer to the lieutenant navigator and master sergeant gunner. It was a bit easier in the fighter units, except the command there was merit based and there was some grumbling from the pre-change 1st lieutenant wingmen about their master sergeant wing leads.
A mess in other words.
It ain't that weird in practice. Step into my new world of 2 seat fighters (was always single seat before). My skipper (CO/CC, whatever you want to call it) is a WSO, former RIO. We fly all the time together, one might even say we are quasi crewed together. I'm a senior O-3/(O-4 select), he is a senior O-5, so maybe not quite as much pay grade difference as your example, but I am still quite definitely junior to him and he is my boss's boss. I will always be the aircraft commander, and I will also always be the only one who can release ordnance from the aircraft. I'll also generally be the instructor (not for him, but for the junior guys in our flight). Never had a problem with that arrangement, and I think the military does a good job overall, in a multi-place aircraft, of checking rank at the door.......we make decisions together as a crew, and while I trust his experience and judgement, if he was for some bizarre reason, trying to talk me into a bad decision, I wouldn't hesitate to go ICS off and do what I need to do.....we can talk about it safely on the ground, and I know that is what he would expect me to do as well, as the "man"......not that such a thing would ever happen, but the designation of aircraft commander is not subject to rank.
Figured y'all would have already heard but they clarified and they have no intention of making enlisted pilots. They're just doing some study about how airmen learn and some enlisted members will be included in the study
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/...s-down-possibility-of-enlisted-combat-pilots/