I have spent nine years of a 22-year career around the issues. Likewise, some of these comments may be critical of the Air Force, but sometimes the truth hurts. At the root of the C2 issue is a basic personnel problem. The reason you will not find any of these types is a Catch-22 that exists in the Air Force. If you serve in a C2 position, your career is usually dead-ended.
Many fine officers find themselves in a non-advancement situation and retire.
Those who manage to escape back to a cockpit or another promising job immediately begin to hide the fact that they ever existed in the C2 world because they darned sure don't want to go back. So now comes the Catch-22. Flying airplanes is where it's at. It always has been and will be until we go to uninhabited vehicles. An excellent theater air control system can save a heckuva lot of dollars in the end, but the culture of the Air Force does not spend money on C2 initiatives when it can buy more weapons.