Don’t make me come over there

Ooh, look, the other services are back to complaining about each other. It looks like the Daily Pundit fired the first shot by pointing to a Washington Times article in which some USAF wankers complain about the poor living conditions at the Bagram expeditionary airbase. Then people started piling on, including an Army officer and the renowned Sgt Stryker.
I was going to write a long, point-by-point rebuttal to Paul’s piece, because I think that he has single-handedly reinforced the stereotype of the USAF prima donna better than any number of Marines, sailors, or grunts could have. Saying things like “the philosophy, principles and mindset of the Air Force reflects the character of its mission and how it performs that mission” — in other words, that the precious and highly intelligent USAF needs those hot showers and ice cream to get the job done– is insulting to the blue suiters. I’ll leave aside all his bologna about how the Army (and, I guess, the Corps, although so far no one’s brought them up in this discussion) are a bunch of knuckle-draggers who are too brainwashed to complain, because I think that does them an equal disservice.
It didn’t help that I just got done reading Mark Bowden’s piece in this month’s Atlantic; reading his description of the living quarters, ice cream, porno movies, and gym facilities available to the the pilots flying over Afghanistan, it’s hard to imagine that the TACPs that Paul is so (justly) proud of are happy about their own crappy accomodations.