Forgive me while I react negatively. I threw away a career in the AF after 8 yrs because of jerk-wad officers with the attitude that their degree in basket weaving made them a better class of human than me. Your comment strikes a nerve. I suppose you probably would have said (or depending on your age--actually said) the same about the n!ggerz too. The enlisted men carry the services. Especially in the Army where they are the ones getting their asses shot off while the officers sit in the mess tent. They do not deserve the kind of second-class treatment your comment suggests. FYI, at my base the enlisted and officers had separate (segregated) housing areas. Still that way today. The holier-than-thou officers need not even acknowledge that they have enlisted members living on the base unless they choose to.
Cynicom said: The enlisted men were friends of the officers wives on a regular basis.
I know I was. And a couple of the female pilots too. They liked that "unsophisticated, eat-with-their-hands kind of guy" sometimes. All that plastic, political BS they have to go through to get, or to keep getting their husbands, promoted wears on them. Sometimes they just needed a BANG. It didn't matter to them if I lived on base, off base or in the singles dorm. I was "friends" with them from all 3 locales. What mattered to them was that I was a real person. Not a jock with a control stick up my ass. And I treated her like a real person and not a necessary prop for my career.
Enlisted puke Air Force.