Dummkopf -

washed out recruit

Pilot Photo Here

I never provided a photo to be posted here, even though it was requested that I do.  I was even provided with sources to find a suitable picture. Still couldn't do it.  

Like everything else I do in life, I either don't follow directions well or feel that I don't have the time to get with the program.  

The rest of my life is pretty much of a failure because I've never learned effective life skills.  I've fallen for the lie that the world revolves around me and my own time line.  I don't understand why I never really accomplish anything.

When I first visited the recruiting tent, I gave the recruiting officer fake contact information.  Then I told the recruiting officer that I really liked flying and that I was very enthusiastic and really wanted to become a Green Tail.  

When he mailed me an official application I never got it since I gave him an address that I never planned on checking.  In any event I never bothered to complete and turn in my application. 

I never downloaded TeamSpeak and visited the Communications Room at the Chateau.  As a result I never met other Jasta pilots and never was able to get their assistance getting acquainted with Boistrancourt and getting my machine running properly.  

I never went to practice, because despite the fact that I SAID I was enthusiastic, I really never am able to commit to investing much effort into anything.  Besides, I never received the emails inviting me to training flights since I gave inaccurate contact information to the recruiter.

Even when I got my act together, I was a hotheaded young gun who tried to tell everyone who has been around the Chateau longer than I,  what to do and how to do it. I never did learn that it is not about how great a shot I am that makes me a Green Tail.  I never was interested in contributing anything much less to the extent that it would result in me getting some kind of promotion within the ranks.  

Instead of learning what the "drill" was and getting "with the program", I wanted to do my own thing, when I wanted to do it, instead of learning to fly as a member of a team and having fun. 

When was in the air, I always looked for my own kills instead of staying with my flight leader and protecting other pilots sixes.  I never looked out for anyone else but myself.  I never learned that my chances for success and enjoyment would be actually greater if I had five pilots clearing my six.  I never understood that my job was to clear the other pilots sixes.

I also posted controversial and inappropriate messages on community forums and on Jasta message boards that reflected badly upon myself and therefore on other pilots within the Jasta.  I did this because I don't believe that anyone has the right to tell me what I can and can't do.  This is just a game!  I never felt I was answerable to anyone else and so I made questionable posts without checking it with my Gruppe Leader first.

Year of birth:  1898

Country: Belgium

Time Zone: Z

Favorite Machine:  I tell everyone I like them all, but I never show up to fly with the Jasta during training exercises.