A-10 Pilot's resume

[Stickers]

An employment recruiter ("headhunter") inadvertently sent a letter to an A-10 pilot requesting his resume. His actual reply follows the request:

 

Dear Sir:

 

I am a recruiter in Dallas that specializes in placing students from key colleges in the positions they desire to be in with my clients across the nation. I work with companies of all sizes and industries. I received your name from several other members of the "Association of Former Students" here at Texas A&M University that I am currently working with. Feel comfortable that your information is confidential with my company. I would like to discuss whether you are currently in the market or even keeping your eyes open for the right opportunity. I would like to see a current copy of your resume to see what opportunities that you may be perfect for. Please send your resume via e-mail or fax to my attention, and I will follow up with you in the next few days to determine your level of interest.

 

I thank you in advance for your response. Please e-mail me back at <******@odellrecruits.com" , or call me direct at (800)880-xxxxx Extension ##xxx.

 

Sincerely,

 

Aaron McCartney

Senior Recruiting Consultant Odell & Associates

 

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Dear Mr. McCartney:

 

This is in response to the email you sent me regarding your services as recruiter. Currently I am employed as a US Air Force Fighter Pilot flying A-10 Thunderbolts for the 25TH Fighter Squadron, Osan AB, Republic of Korea.

 

My contract with the USAF does not expire until 2006. Here are some of my qualifications nonetheless, just in case any of your clients are need of someone with my expertise:

 

1. The ability to employ my aircraft, the feared A-10 Warthog, as one of the most capable ground attack/CAS platforms in the world.

 

2. Protect South Korea from communist hordes led by the Great Pornographer, Kim Jung Ill.

 

3. Drop cluster munitions from 10,000 feet onto unsuspecting DANKS (dumb ass north Koreans) and send 202 individual bomblets of wrath and fury into their starving, bloated, pink bodies.

 

4. Take a 6000 foot slant range Forced-No-Solution High-angle gun shot and kill troops in their wimpy little APC's with reckless abandon. (Do you have any idea, Mr. McCartney, what a 30mm Armor Piercing Incendiary round that is as long as your forearm does as it boars through a tank's walls like Jell-O? Let me tell you, it's not pretty.)

 

5. Get wicked-ass-drunk at the Officer's club on Friday nights, smokin' big fat Cuban cigars (this is Korea, not the US), drink Gin and Tonics like water, throw furniture off the roof, say 'f*ck' a lot, and piss off all the wives and hapless souls who hate our guts because they are not fighter pilots.

 

Mr. McCartney, I have no idea how to "hold a meeting," "do a memo," "take a lunch," "think outside the box" or even sit behind a desk for that matter. I only eat, sleep, fly, and drink. I am an instrument of national policy the likes of which your clients probably have never seen. I would just as soon detonate a 500 pound Mark 82 Air Burst 20 feet above a DANK playground than wander through some corporate office blabbering about business plans and the latest episode of Ally "eat a friggin sandwich" McBeal.

 

Thank you for your letter and please let me know if any of your associates show interest in my capabilities. I look forward to hearing from you.

[vrv]

Hahaha

[mikoyan]

he is overqualified for the position!

[Jinro]

A bit arrogant, IMO.....

 

5. Get wicked-ass-drunk at the Officer's club on Friday nights, smokin' big fat Cuban cigars (this is Korea, not the US), drink Gin and Tonics like water, throw furniture off the roof, say 'f*ck' a lot, and piss off all the wives and hapless souls who hate our guts because they are not fighter pilots.

 

Neither is he :S

[Echonomix]

A bit arrogant, IMO.....

 

 

 

Neither is he :S

 

 

Hehe, not surprised by that are you? It'd be hard not to be a bit arrogant given the fact of the amount of ass-kick he is able to deploy!

[Jinro]

There is no excuse for arrogance. Period.

[mvsgas]

I do not think I have ever met a humble, down to earth fighter pilot. They are, were or going to be arrogant, just comes with the job I think.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

It's not about being arrogant, more like a matter of good old lineshooting. It's not an option, more of a package deal instead: if you're a fighter pilot, you have to shoot a line a bit, go a bit cocky and do your fair bit of show-off. It's a matter of being professional.

 

On a more serious note, they just do it for the joke, and their colleagues take it with a lot of fair play, replying in the same tone as well. Nothing bad about that to me. As a matter of fact, I just love it. Fighter pilot's humour is just brilliant.

 

And by the way, pilots in general are, in a way or another, like that as well. It's just that fighter pilots show the symptoms in a rather intense way.

[Jinro]

...I'm still confused as to how an A-10 pilot is a "fighter pilot"......

[Bucic]

I do not think I have ever met a humble, down to earth fighter pilot. They are, were or going to be arrogant, just comes with the job I think.

Yes, mil jet pilot is a profession of high risk... of being a douche bag :D When you have to talk to a mil jet pilot prefer those gray haired.

[Stickers]

...I'm still confused as to how an A-10 pilot is a "fighter pilot"......

 

 

Well they do carry AIM-9's if that's what validates them as a fighter pilot. I am also pretty sure most A-10 pilots will move on to flying other fighter aircraft throughout their career if they haven't flown anything else yet.

 

Three focuses?

 

Fighters

Heavies

Bombers

[Jinro]

If having AIM-9s makes a pilot a "fighter pilot", then having an AR-15 makes me a soldier.

 

If the aircraft he flies has a primary mission other than shooting down other aircraft, then he's not a fighter pilot.

[Stickers]

If having AIM-9s makes a pilot a "fighter pilot", then having an AR-15 makes me a soldier.

 

If the aircraft he flies has a primary mission other than shooting down other aircraft, then he's not a fighter pilot.

 

 

So if you fly an F-15E, F-16, F/A-18 you are not a fighter pilot?

[Jinro]

I should rephrase. Point is, the A-10 is a ground attack aircraft, not a fighter aircraft. And it isn't meant to dogfight, therefore an A-10 pilot is not a fighter pilot.

 

The F15E, F16, and F/A-18 are all multi-role, meaning they are designed to dogfight at some level. The A-10 was designed to do one thing, and it's not dogfighting.

Edited October 13, 2010 by Jinro

[vrv]

I should rephrase. Point is, the A-10 is a ground attack aircraft, not a fighter aircraft. And it isn't meant to dogfight, therefore an A-10 pilot is not a fighter pilot.

 

The F15E, F16, and F/A-18 are all multi-role, meaning they are designed to dogfight at some level. The A-10 was designed to do one thing, and it's not dogfighting.

 

It's a generalization when someone says they are a "fighter pilot". Because technically the only "fighter pilots" would be flying the F-15C and F-22A. F-18's and 16's would be flown by "multi-role pilots" while the A-10 and F-15E would be flown by "Ground Attack pilots". It's easier to just say fighter pilot.

[mvsgas]

Semantics...

Fighter pilots is just a generalization related to the aircraft size and mission, same reason 355th Fighter Wing is not called Attack Wing or the 25th Fighter Squadron... you get the point.

:thumbup:

Edited October 13, 2010 by mvsgas

[Deadman]

the A-10 C aircraft is classified as a ground attack aircraft along with the AC-130H/U Spectre/Spooky II. The A-10C is used by Fighter wings or Fighter Squadrons or wings.

here is another explanation

 

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets by dropping bombs. Fighters are small, fast, and maneuverable. Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are dual-roled as fighter-bombers; the term "fighter" is also sometimes used colloquially for dedicated ground-attack aircraft. Fighter aircraft are the primary means by which armed forces gain air superiority over their opponents in battle. Since at least World War II, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been a key component of victory in warfare, particularly conventional warfare between regular armies (as opposed to guerrilla warfare). The purchase, training and maintenance of a fighter fleet represent a very substantial proportion of defense budgets for modern militaries.

 

I see i took to long preparing the baby back ribs

[Bucic]

Are you people clerks or what? :P

[Jinro]

same reason 355th Fighter Wing is not called Attack Wing or the 25th Fighter Squadron

 

By that logic, my uncle should be a "Screaming Eagle" since his regiment during the Korean War was part of the 101st.

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Does it make that much of a difference?

 

And yeah, Fighter Wings and Fighter Squadron makes it pretty much clear :P

 

Jinro, lets just call it fighter for convenience then? :D

[vrv]

By that logic, my uncle should be a "Screaming Eagle" since his regiment during the Korean War was part of the 101st.

Go petition the USAF to change the names of their squadrons due to this horrible mishap and see how far you get. :megalol: :D