PITABOT is an acronym I came up with many years ago in the Air Force. It means "Planes In The Air, Bombs On Target."
It's what the Air Force is about. The Air Force is comprised of people and equipment, and together they make PITABOT happen.
Being a simple communications geek for 15 years in the Air Force it was easy to consider myself expendable. After all, I pulled wires and put them in, occasionally took a card out of a piece of Comm equipment and replaced or repaired it; and spent many hours trying to get 2 pieces of equipment to talk to each other.
I wasn't expendable. They Security troop out there protecting our base needed his Comm repeater; and he had no idea how to fix it. I had the technology.
I woke up to the PITABOT concept in 2004, and have lived it since. The simple every day tasks I do to support the warfighters are important. I may not have ever fired a gun at an enemy troop, but when my firing team picked up a radio and said "WE NEED SUPPORT, WE'RE TAKING FIRE!" and their air support arrived without a US Casualty, that was my work. I was just as important to that process as the Airman who pulled a trigger.
This is a very interesting acronym and quite genius. I like how your blog looks like it literally has an aerial perspective relevant to the Air Force. It would be neat to see some pictures of your work up here just to have a better idea of the communications processes that you worked on. After this class what do you plan on doing with this blog?
ReplyDeleteThanks, CiaraMarie.
ReplyDeleteI can't post many pictures of my work, other than a few of some telephones that sit on the console. But I think I'll continue with the blog, it's kind of fun to just throw some info out here blindly and see what feedback I draw!
TONY