Bamboozled (rant)
I'm an A1C (AF). Arrived at my first duty station this Feb. Still in training.
It did NOT take long for me to go from wanting to make a good impact on the air force to wanting to get the fuck out.
I thought it would be the job that breaks it or the bureaucracy shit....no...no it's the ego-driven imbeciles and their complacent leaders/enablers around. I even read the code of conduct reg to see if this kind of behavior is tolerated. You're telling me a few pure dickheads in a shop/unit is all it takes to poison the "professionalism" the Air Force tries to strive for?
Bullshit.
Yelled at and insulted because my training manager misread my body language
Micromanaged by my supervisor (same age as me)
Constantly teased for the vocab I use to speak.
Surrounded by vitriolic 'locker' room talk. I mean actual jokes about DV in 2026, and calling a random man a retarded-looking for smiling with his wife in a picture.
Bravado out the wazoo.
I came in bright-eyed, opened, ready to be extroverted. I'm now back to being on guard, reserved, introverted and now, anxious at times.
I've been told it's probably because I'm the only one with a Bachelor's. So? I don't boast about it.
I wanted to believe in "One team, one fight". Naive of me.
I'm sure not all shops are like this, but the fact that the leadership above doesn't call it out is what makes all shops filthy to me.
I don't regret joining yet, because I'm doing it for my wife.
But I told her to not allow me to ever re-enlist.
I don't want to know if it gets better after this contract if I even see it through. Why are they like this? Grown men acting like that?