Big courage! My respect Sir! (from a French FlyBoy) 
Take care, all the best for you and your family 
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Iâd say with your rĂ©sumĂ© sir, youâve earned a little discretion. Thank you very much for your service. Itâs was a like a breath of fresh air when I read your post. Itâs too easy to get sucked into some of the negativity witnessed on this forum.
You sound like an upstanding human being and I commend your passion! Donât sweat itâŠweâre good!
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@TalorSwifty, a cat is not for me. I do have 5 dogs, though.
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Where is the meltdown?
Never seen anyone use their past work experience as an excuse⊠Just apologize and learn from it.
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We all have our days good on ya mate 
Personaly I have no issues with some venting people do when they are passionate about something. Sims need passionate people that know what they talk about. The only issue I have is people that keep going on about it and dont know when to stopâŠ
We all have enough stress and frustration in our daily lives. A game, (or sim, whatever) should be a source of enjoyment and entertainment. NEVER frustration and stress. If youâre finding that a game, or movie, or book, or whatever escapist activity is causing these issues, just step away and do something else. We have so many other sims, games, and activities available to us that there is never a good reason to have one of them cause us grief like many people are expressing in this forum.
MSFS is not your job. It is not your family. It DOESNâT MATTER. We all need to be reminded of keeping things in perspective from time to time.
That does not mean we cannot express disappointment with the state of things, or submit bugs, or give constructive criticism, but it shouldnât get to the point of angst, anger, or hostilityâŠever.
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Thank you for your service!
The one thing that didnât serve me well in civilian life was the constant cursing. It was just part of my vocabulary while in the service⊠Never realized how much it had become part of my everyday language until after discharge.
Perhaps your intensity doesnât always serve you well, but itâs clear to me just from reading your post that the navy taught you one thing that serves you very well; Ownership and humility.
Youâre not the only one who has high standards and expectations - It can be incredibly frustrating when expectations donât match up with outcomes; As we have more experiences in life, we hopefully get better at practicing patience and acceptance.
âSometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. Thatâs one of my favorite things to say. So what. â
â Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Thank you for your service and see you in the skies.
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or as Douglas Adams wrote, as a line in one of his Hitch Hikerâs Guide to the Galaxy radio scripts/books, âdoes it matter and if it matters, does it matter that it matters?â 
IIRC, that line was for Marvin the Paranoid Android
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I did my time in the Army Air Defense. Didnât consider the Navy for fear of drowning.
That was too bad because if I had joined the Navy, I may have been fortunate enough to have met you !
I salute you !
Same as you, Dad was career Navy, many in my family followed suit (me included). When I was in as an AT1, the thing I really enjoyed most is that military bearing, chain of command, were not just things you could choose to ignore if you just didnât feel like doing your job that day (like in the civilian world). In the military, I thrived on the fact that when I made First Class and was in charge of younger sailors who where learning what I knew about the plane I spent my whole career with (SH3), I knew that (for the most part), if they were in the fleet with me, theyâve already passed a few tests that evaluated them for willingness to obey orders, and trust their superiors knew what they were talking about.
I could be, what would be called âAbrasiveâ in todayâs gentle world of HR depts telling us how important peopleâs feelings areâŠget my point across to a young sailor whoâs just walked under the rotor arc of the tail rotor, and advise him the only reason heâs alive is that heâs short! In the civilian world, Iâd be in HR explaining why I called him âvertically challengedâ and thus hurt his feelings.
Seeing a Chief go off on a sailorâŠback in the day, was a common occurrence, but you knew that kid did something that probably would âa killed him if he werenâtâ lucky that day.
Sadly, todayâs Chiefs canât enforce tried-n-true motivation practices, and even their traditional initiation ceremonies have been so watered down as to make them G rated.
AnywayâŠunderstand where youâre coming from. Been there shipmate.
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