I am going to be f***ign sick. I am a SAC trained WARRIOR. You have to have lived through SAC to understand it. For them to take my SHIELD and do that just makes want to vomit. That tip of the spear I did for 3 years in missile silos in some of the worst weather you can imagine. I went through so many EWO drills, I lost count. But make no mistake, you don't know its a drill until much later. It isn't like most exercises in the AF these days where it planned etc and you have an idea its coming, in EWO you had no idea. As far as you knew, the missiles were coming out of the hole and all you could do was break out the EWO TO's and hope to god it wasn't real. Then I moved to AWAC's (well 11 years of being and MTI/MTL in there too) were there was bombs on targets all the time. Warriors one and all, and you do not have to be a trigger puller to have that title. And I will go toe to toe with anyone who says otherwise.
Now I am not diminishing the importance of those guys job but to take the symbol I hold dearest in my career and use it for that is an insult. And calling them warriors is a but much....unless they are going to beat Haji to death with their laptops.