Don't worry about insulting us...We are taxi drivers! So is every pilot if you want to put that twist on it and break it down to its bare essentials. We E-6 bubbas sometimes feel that way, but most of the time like HH-60 said, there is quite a bit of interaction. If you look at the EC-135 community in the Air Force for example, there is a bulkhead just aft of the flight deck that the pilots, navs, and Fe's don't go past and the goats in the back don't come forward of. When you look at it from that aspect, we in the Navy would never do business like that. It would never work. There has to be interaction to make it a successful mission.
Ummmm, there is no EC-135 community in the USAF anymore. They went the way of the dodo bird when the E-6's took over the Looking Glass mission.