Oh my heavens. Another mystery solved in my life. High school friend's husband was  AF technician/AF 1 mechanic for 30 years. Just decided one day he was done, took 2 weeks vacation and did not go back. Staunch republican. Loved his job(remember 30 years) and left. We all thought it was the commute, but now I think I see he saw through the subterfuge. Wow, wow, just wow. If something happened to someone on AF1, how could he keep going, especially admiring the President so much. (He resigned/retired/up and left last August.)