As a retired, prior enlisted, officer I do laugh at the "chair force" jokes, but we have some of the biggest bad-asses out there. The PJ's and CCT's have always been some of the best, if not the best, in the entire US military.
I have had several good friends who were both and they were some of the greatest war fighters I have ever met, and I have been around thousands from every branch of Service.
“”The PJ’s””
And for those who don’t know it was a PJ (William Pitsenbarger) who was awarded the MOH posthumously from the Vietnam war...took 34 years. He died in battle in 1966 and the MOH wasn’t awarded until 2000. Thankfully, his father was still alive to receive it at Wright Pat along with his stepmother. His mother had passed away some time before that. We never knew “Pits” but we became friends of his parents when we moved for a short time to OH. A most devastating loss; an only child.
Dittos here, Sir. I had one good bud, a CC’er, who I met in the NCO Academy in Charleston AFB back in 1984. He jumped with The 75th Ranger Regiment into Grenada from under 500 feet, called in air strikes against Cuban guns, bitched about busting his radio and having to call in air strikes on an army set. Thank God the fighters could get his directions!