The title of this post pretty much says it all. Since 1958, the U.S. Air Force has been trying to be the sole controller of U.S. military space. Read the reports coming out of the RAND Corporation (www.rand.com) and you'll see what I mean - especially "Mastering the Ultimate High Ground" (RAND, 2003) by Benjamin Lambeth. I apply and get rejected because of a little niggling spine curve. I have been told specifically, it's because the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General hates my guts personally.

I mean, because of the crapper economy, I have been spending the past six months running my own business moving people's furniture out of the back of my pickup truck. If I am so medically unfit to sit behind a desk as a researcher and USAF tech officer - never being allowed to fly a plane - what gives?

Now, I am not God's heaven-sent, but honestly, this has to be a joke. Well, I respectfully submit the U.S. Air Force for a 2008 Darwin Award. Following flying live nukes over Louisiana and completely destroying a $1.2bn B-2 Stealth bomber before it even took off the runway, passing up a PhD Astrophysicist for officer has to rank as one of the stupidest decisions the USAF has ever made in its entire history.

Respectfully submitted,

Brian Hart, Ph.D.