Especially the Air Force should know better since the people doing the work for flying things are officers...
Perhaps the more accurate statement officers do the what they see as cool jobs all boring ones are delegated.
I agree. Developing my own technical proficiency and teaching the next generations has been the only thing keeping me going in an organization otherwise wrought with inefficiency and stupidity. In my experience aviation is fairly unique in this aspect (in the context of the military writ large).