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Where have you been the last four years?

Opinions of lower-ranking troops could soon be considered in officer promotions "The pilot would include anonymous peer and subordinate feedback to be submitted as part of command selection for O-5 and O-6 ranks." Our Air Force leadership would look COMPLETELY different. Douche nozzles like Slife and Cat 5 would be busting rocks in the gulag.

Remember, they’re enlisted and you’re an officer. every time they speak to you, task them with some trivial bullshit. Bring me the results of the last dorm inspection? How many CE Tickets are still open on the ops building? How about the dorms? I think the track is a few meters short, go measure it. Get me the names of every crew chief that grew up in Texas. The more tedious and vaguely personnel related the better. they’ll leave you the fuck alone when they realize every interaction comes with homework.

Don't do it. Get your name out in other ways. If you're enlisted in the unit, I don't know a single guy that would be ok taking a bottle from you. We hire within our unit every year and we've never taken any gifts from non-fighter pilots rushing the unit. Just do your job incredibly well. Have the HMCS and NVGs ready to go. Keep the gloves and piddle packs stocked and ask how the sortie was when they drop gear off. That's a great way to open the door and learn what they do after they step out the door.

Go Navy!! Beat Navy!!!

They were far from new, both belonged to NASA who was happy to divest them. I "stole" them and got funding for the test from OSD that would turn into Combat Dragon. We used a group of Navy pilots that had been working the A-29 at Pax River. They were without a home so we rolled them in. One was outfitted with an extended boom and a development version of a GPS based stationkeeper system for cropdusters strapped on the front nose. Basically a series of lights that visually depicts spraying lanes for pilots. I understand it is very common now. The second was outfitted with a tank and a spray coil system that was used to test anti-ice systems. Airplanes would fly behind the bird as it sprayed water to see how thier systems dealt with ice build up. Here is bird one in the hangar at Pax, its been painted and we are about to remove a bunch of the NASA gear.

Y'all sound like the board of every major corporation in America today looking for a CEO. We want someone who's really going to shake things up, take this company out of its rut and into the future as the leader in our field! Ooh, that guy, no he's a little bit too controversial for us. Besides we want someone with more experience in this type of company. Let's go with established-safe-guy-in-a-suit. Fast forward a couple years I don't understand, why is our company still stuck unable to innovate or change direction?

You're not new, you know this song and dance already. They have a retention self-created "problem" due to crap QOL post-UFT ADSC and people becoming older heads of household. By proxy that becomes a production problem, because they decided to fill the gaps with new accessions instead of addressing the original self-created problem, full stop. The real problem for them is that they also don't have the political capital to make undergraduate pilot training (an enterprise already scoffed at as scutwork by many within the combat coded echelons, ACC/11Fs in particular) a capitalization priority, but the Pharaoh demands more brick. Boeing being a malicious MIC grifter doesn't help matters on that effort. This thing should have been COTS solved 5 years ago (and it would have, both COTS solutions were plug and play and operational for DECADES). At any rate, in the absence of political capital, all you can do is kabuki dance. So in comes the sophistry: "CRAFT""VR""UPT NEXT""Innovate!". Then the secondary effort to strawman objective critics of the obvious, as anachronistic malcontents that are getting in the way of progress (that's yours truly and company btw). That's how you get the current status quo. An enterprise dead set in fixing a retention problem they created, by digging themselves into a production problem they can't control, via diluting the quality control of the product and insist you don't dare say publicly they are. Then wash their hands when the core competency and loss rate of the grey jets become too public for the senior management in the DC swamp to stomach. Since this COA exceeds the median VML cycle, it's plausibly deniable. None of this is conjecture, it's my lived experience since oh say, fiscal '18? Through all the jokes, the meme witchhunts on instagram, the non-judicial punishments, and all the banter on here about the leadership changes you highlight, they have been the most emphatic about never tolerating the utterance that these SGTO evolutions are a dilution of quality. Most RegAF just doesn't have that corporate memory because they PCS too frequently. But Pepperdige Farms (AFRC) remembers. The all-contractor wet dream they've always had is also DOA, because Congress won't let them touch the pork earmarked for the aforementioned localities. So we're stuck in this morass, and more young guys will end up dead for it, before somebody finally tells HAF to KIO and addresses the capitalization of this enterprise with the gravitas it deserves.

Turn about is fair play... so let the Air Wing sink a ship.

so let's get this straight, tulsi was good enough to be vice chair of the DNC, good enough to run for democratic presidential nominee, good enough to be elected to US Congress FOUR times where she served on the HSAC and also the House Armed Services subcommittee on Intelligence, BUT she's not qualified. you're wrong sir. and maybe sexist? (see what I did there), or maybe racist against women of color? (hmmm) tulsi is extremely qualified to lead our IC and hopefully clean house

Dibs?

What a weird way to visibly show people you voted for Kamala.

The meme's about this are epic, but only because the bros are okay. There are first hand accounts being shared for the 5 wet Hornet driver (the dude and his trunk monkey that punched) and the next dude in trail getting shot at too (didn't punch). I think the hornets should start calling Magnum on the radio with destroyer bullseyes, just to f' with em. Side note - preliminary reports indicate all personnel involved were complete with Cyber Awareness and SAPR training. Stand by for new anti-frat CBT.

I’ve come to expect that the only people who will have serious issues with the American leadership the next four years (just like 2017-2021) will be our adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, terrorist groups like ISIS, transgenders, illegal immigrants, far left lunatics like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and decrypt democratic leadership in failing states like California and New York.

CENTCOM ADAFCO: “at least it wasn’t a Patriot this time.”

That's the crux right there. It would be great to have a disruptor with operational experience. But we don't. I'm not a big Tulsi fan, but what we need right now are people willing to slaughter sacred cows, and the best people for that task are the ones who have been scorned by the priests of the old religion.

Guess it depends on what disgruntled means by clown show. If he simply means theatrics (like making Canada the 51st state), then yeah, trump is full of stuff like that. If he means hypocritical theatrics from congress, then also yes, there will be plenty of that. If he means executive level performance on par or worse than the historic disaster of the Biden admin, then I believe he is completely off his rocker and incapable of self-derived rational thought.

Really, Azerbaijan Airlines backed Russia into this corner. They have no one but themselves to blame. If they weren't flying airplanes to Grozny, the Russians wouldn't have felt the need to defend themselves. /s

Touché but it represents how much faster their blob (acquisition n development structure) works than ours Our tech is great our admin sucks, their tech is stolen and their admin is focused and allowed to move irrespective of parochial jobs interests just something that we should take seriously Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was AD and as a Capt I close-door squared away an out of control SNCO. No repercussions to me. And even had there been, good. Embrace it. Too many officers use fear of “the system” to excuse their own weak behavior. We’re warriors facing death, dealing violence and inspiring others to follow. Grow up and embrace your potential is my advice to officers shying from confrontation for fear of reaction within their chain of command. Do the right thing for the right reason, or at least be able to spin it that way! Men of action shouldn’t live in fear. Doing so is a choice. Choose differently.

Holy shit, glad they got out OK. The Admiral is going to have some butts, and a lot of them.

Which brings me to another “wrong with the AF” point… we’ve got this ingrained cultural problem where a certain sect of SNCOs feel empowered to and expect that they can just run over captains, majors, and even lieutenant colonels. I call it “excessive professional deference”. Sure, you’ve been in longer and I respect your technical competence, but the last time I checked, an O-3 or O-4 still outranks an E-7, 8, or 9. Don’t like it? Tough shit, MSgt…go to OTS and get a commission.

I didn't say anything about "feelings", so strange to bring it up and even stranger to put it in quotes as if I said it. Thoughts and feelings are very different and far too many people confuse the two. I don't put any trust in rumors, especially rumors from DC from 'someone closer to the issue' (apparently I only get to "feel", while they get to "think"). Assuming the rumors are true, which is a monumental assumption, needing to learn and people not liking her are no problem. Likeability is not a qualification for a cabinet position. Needing to learn sounds like an insider critique of someone that isn't an insider. Washington, and thus our country, would be better off with fewer insiders. Unprepared is a different matter, but I think (not feel) that it would be far easier to walk in prepared for a meeting with the President on a specific subject than to walk into a firing squad that can ask anything they want.

That alone makes me support the nomination even more!

This thing looks even sexier covered in mud.

Bullshit the biggest issue was a barrier a thousand feet off the runway, that landing made no sense and smelled like panic.

The competent SNCOs are never the ones being a pain in the dick …

While I don't enjoy some of the theatrics, at times they do serve a purpose. Most of the bluster is to force negotiation and in the case of Canada it kinda worked. Interestingly Canada was already feeling the immigration pain and has tightened the requirements for immigration to their country drastically. As Trump pointed out there has been a huge spike in people coming across the northern border and a threatened 25% tariff forced Trudeau to get on a place and fly to Mar A Lago. And if you think it is wrong to punk the future Canadian governor, good look at some of the things he said about Trump in the past. His comments has the same impact with Mexico, since the election they have suddenly detained 500,000 immigrants heading for the U.S. border. Right or wrong, it worked with NATO in the past and while I don't favor walking away from that alliance, a great number of the members were delinquent or not meeting their obligations.

Tell us five new policy changes that Trump has said he will implement that you believe will make things worse.

I'll bet that thing is about as stealthy as BQzip's mom on a friday night at AJ's.

Oh what a crock. We aren’t trying to deny him his constitutional freedom and put him in jail. We’re talking about fitness to serve in office. There is no presumption of innocence in whether or not he’s an asshat and a creeper, that doesn’t take a jury of peers to establish. Bill Clinton is one, I doubt you’d be quick to defend him. “The voters” sent a crack abdicated mayor back to his office and elected that rube from NY as a congressman that took a year longer to be thrown out of congress once it was evident of what he did because of this “but the other side!” Bullshit. There are plenty of populist idiot groups to be taken advantage of for political position (AoC, Omar, Etc). Gaetz has a demonstrated history of asshattery. He is unprofessional in every manner and exists for the apathy of his political constituents who either are interested in WWE politics, the advantage of incumbency, and the lack of a viable opposition population to elect somebody worthy of the position. He should never have been considered by any sane person for the position Trump nominated him for, and the way people lined up to “but the other side!” This is as ridiculous as Trump nominating his Limo Driver to the position only to watch people defend him. This guy is trash and it literally took the ethics report to get him to leave prior to censure because he knows he’s in an indefensible position. In case some people forgot the ethics committee is BIPARTISAN. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s on the dems AND the willing GOP participants of the establishment (McConnell, Crenshaw, etc.) The people are sick of all the bullshit pork the aforementioned group shoves in bills - so yeah it is their fault. I will also be happy to see the gov shutdown. We’re fiscally out of control more than anytime in history - it has to stop.

You’re showcasing you actually don’t know anything about Tulsi, even the slightest bit it appears.

I excitedly clicked the link to see what my BAH is going to be only to realize I'm retired and it doesn't apply.. so f'ing surreal

If that movie doesn't end with the national anthem and the raising of the flag I'm gonna be pissed...

The Democrats are going to have a full-scale meltdown over this. Biden gave the presidency to Trump, and now he's giving him the moral authority to do anything he wants while in office. I couldn't have asked for a better finale to the Biden show.