Getcher Own
Come on, Air Force, do better than this. SAC deserves better. Hell, for that matter, so does Cyber Command, whatever that is.
Update: If you’re wondering why I care, besides the fact that it’s slipshod, lazy, and rude, my dad was SAC (Strategic Air Command–bombers, tankers, and a few other arms) during his 20-year tour as an air force pilot. “Peace is Our Profession” was SAC’s motto. My dad and his KC-135 and B-52 buddies finished it “…Nuclear War is Just a Hobby.”
Update x2: “…so does Cyber Command, whatever that is.” See? I knew I liked John Noonan. Sounds to me like some people are too busy worrying about their patch, too cheap to pay a designer to make them a non-plagiarized one, and have their priorities a bit out of wack.
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I’m sure they’re going to point to the fact that 8th Air Force is going to be Cyber’s Numbered Air Force and use their heritage as the justification for borrowing the SAC symbology.
Comment by Chris — April 9, 2008 @ 2:16 am
Hey, that’s easy for you to say, you’re TAC, or whatever is the current descendant of TAC. ;)
Comment by Anwyn — April 9, 2008 @ 7:01 am
But heraldy is so easy to design. There is even software for it. So cyber geeks have no excuse!
Comment by Garter Knight — April 9, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Hey, you’re talking the squeaks & beeps battalion, you really think they’re gonna be original?? On the other hand, works for me, it’s got little lightening bolt squirting out of it’s fingers, kinda like electrons and stuff, fits right in! ;-)
Hey Chris, would you tell Torch to get his $%#@! aircraft off my ramp?? Otherwise we’re gonna paint a couple of Hammer patches on the tail and keep it! Just joshing, think one of our boys is gonna fly it up to Alaska next week for ya’ll to pick up.
Cheers
Comment by Tater — April 9, 2008 @ 11:35 am
Tater — We left one there after COMBAT HAMMER? I don’t know where the planes are, I’m out of scheduling (and am actually ground-pounding (STS) “Somewhere in SE Asia”). I won’t see Torch for a good long while. I’ll see if I can get a message back to him via the Cyber Command networks. . . .
Anwyn — PACAF? Hardly the descendent of TAC! It’s its own animal, and a strange breed at that.
Comment by Chris — April 10, 2008 @ 11:36 am