Searching for an identity

[Eyesinthesky]

I was debating mightily between here and the base camp section but this seemed the safer option. This may seem a bit convoluted but all of this has been bouncing around inside my head for a while and I've just now found a place where I can put it all out there and get a sanity check.

As QP's, what are your views on AFSOC and where it fits into the picture? do you actually view us as SOF or are we like the little kid that tries to hang out with the big kids in the parking lot smoking when he's 15? Going doubly for us in the RPA community.

Some of this has come up stemming from our leadership trying to foot stomp us being part of the SOF community but some of us seem to have trouble swallowing that pill.

What do y'all think of RPA's? I'm an SO on MQ-1's and while I love my job and believe that my squadron is doing fantastic things, I've always wondered what the guys on the other end think of us, as a valuable asset or an annoyance? We never really get any feedback from those whom we support, so I was wondering, without violating OPSEC of course, how we are thought of by the boots on the ground.