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When I was in the AF, we hated when the AFR showed up. They would arrive in clean, starched unis at about 0800, stand around drinking coffee and eating doughnuts for an hour. Get into formation for roll call and reading general announcements for another half hour, then go to work in an air-conditioned hangar until their hour lunch (which lasted almost 2), go back to work for a few more hours, then leave an hour early...on both Saturday and Sunday.

Occaisionally they'd send some of them out to the flightline to "help" us out but they were mostly in the way. Once we watched them "block-in" a C-141 flown by fellow reservists. What a fiasco! None of them wore any sort of ear protection so when one of them approached the main gear with the chocks, he went in at the wrong angle and had his hat sucked off his head by an engine which fortunately wasn't seriously damaged. His counterpart tried to put the chock between the wheels before the plane came to a halt, they didn't know how to start the ground power unit or even where to hook it up, etc. etc. What a dot-and-pony show!

And the flight crews were the most arrogant SOB's! They all wore those aviator style sunglasses and polished brass (one even wore a white scarf like a WW1 fighter ace...we called him "Major Snoopy"). And they treated us like pond scum. Suffice to say that my experiences with them weren't pretty.