Do you believe Organized Unit Level Sports are a good thing for our military or not?

I totally wish we actually did any form of unit level sports. I remember asking about softball and even bowling. My flight chief told me right to my face that Airmen are not allowed to play. You have to learn you job first then maybe you can play. Which I understood at first, until I noticed that most of the guys who were part of the Good Ole Boy system were allowed to skip work and go play. Also, when our ops tempo increased to insane levels, we never had time for really anything outside of work. I remember growing up and seeing Navy, Marines, and Army folk playing in our recreational sports and happy doing it. Never saw any of that until my unit deployed to Korea and we beat everyone at the base at everything. It was awesome.

Every Friday we played flag football. The soldiers and NCOs had fun and there was a lot of cardio. The team giving up the TD had to do push ups. We need fun in the military. My unit APFT average was 260.

I played street hockey against my CO one time, it was pretty intense.