The PATCO people who read this, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union, must be green with envy. Time to bring in the Army like Ronnie Reagan and fire them all.
Oh, he didn't fire them. They quit.
For the most part, though not all, it was the Air Force. I would have deployed to a civilian airport except I was already over seas when it happened. My compensation for 20 years of stress was $761 a month. That was 22 years ago, so it is about $1,600 a month now. Needless to say, when my career was over, I did not want to talk to another airplane ever again. PATCO had extremely poor leadership. I knew 4 former FAA controllers who said they really did not want to strike, but got pressured into it.