My Days in the Military Part 5: Morale

Morale is a word you are most likely to hear throughout your military career. To the upper ranks it is the lifeblood of the Air Force (or any other branch) to the lower ranks it is codeword: pretend to give a crap. Morale is the nemesis to the mechanics I worked with. How were we expected to be happy when we were forced to work 12 hour days and have to deal with the upper rank morale instigators which made some Airmen (myself included) just want to shoot themselves.

Some of the upper ranks, such as Hoyt who worked in the office, understood what us lesser ranked Airmen felt, and had a candy jar that we could take from when we needed a little sugar rush to pretend we had Morale.

Thus he dubbed the candy jar the Morale in a Jar