Leaderboard

Add: Form 8s need to meet promotion boards so douchers who are incompetent in the jet stop getting promoted, ultimately making decisions for the flying community. I know OPRs should cover all leadership and potential leadership qualities, but your performance in your actual, no shit job (NOT SELO, ADO, BS with inflated numbers) can be quantified on a check ride and tell their own story about one's personal performance. I have personally seen (and I am sure many can relate) Mr. Repeat Q3 who no one wants to fly with, yet has all squares filled get promoted over a very good, never worse than Q1 IP who didn't get the Masters.

NA on the SA there, Rainman. It's right in front of your face.

How to fix the mass exodus. Bonus to 20. Guarantee a flying assignment the last tour.

That's the theory. But then you get into the writing styles and leadership policies on strats. Say Q3 and Q1 dudes are decent enough people outside of the jet, but not good enough to warrant an OPR strat (CC says only top 15% will get a number) or a DP and not bad enough to get a DNP. They do the same deployments and have similar jobs in the squadron. On paper, they can re-use everyone elses' uber exaggerated bullets on how much money they save the AF, how they make everything more efficient by 110%, and how they were handpicked (voluntold) to lead some extracurricular. No differentiating pushes, exaggerated fluff to make mediocrity sound phenomenal, and maybe a too lenient CC equates to the two people looking nearly identical. The board then has only one discernible difference, a filled square. Maybe I am crazy, but I always give more credibility to a person who is good at their job over someone who pretends to be and has a worthless degree. Edit: I agree the problem should take care of itself, eventually...just not at the O-4/O-5 level.

To be fair, I think matmac might be using this as a SA building exercise...

Eh...I am willing to give them a pass since they said "Women Special Operators." If you are in ops and assigned to USSOCOM, you are a special operator or SOF to me. Special operators conduct special operations, what else would you call it? Being an "Operator" colloquially is obviously very different and I don't think the article implied that they were breaking necks or bear crawling up mountains like the bigfoot-ninjas we have out there. And if it was slightly on the sensational side, it's a headline, that's the idea I guess... Overall, good on these ladies because debriefing/searching the chicks on the objective can be extremely valuable in a situation like this one where the primary target (senior IMU guy) put on a burka in an attempt to escape.

IDK, I'm in the "equality crowd" and I don't really want any of our guys (or gals) fighting their way in to a target. Surprise & speed > gun battle. Generally works out better that way anyways WRT actually getting the target. I've heard of this for some time, is this really new or just new on the SF side?

STS and your wife says you have a history of that.

The fighter pilot shortage numbers are like the carrot on the end of the stick to keep people thinking....well he'll one of these days the flying hours and open cockpits will return. Those shortages fighter pilots needed to fill desks and other positions. They are not jets sitting pilotless on the ramp waiting to go get wrung out.