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Also never pass up the opportunity to use spell check.

Bergman, nothing against you personally, but that attitude and line of thinking is exactly the reason why we waste money and no one cares to change it. You are correct, that is the way it is TODAY and if you want to get promoted high enough to help make changes, you have to do it. But continuing the attitude of "that's the way it is or has always been" is the reason why officers who bitched about these very things 10 years ago are the same ones dishing it out today. They are in a position to change it but they don't because now that they have been promoted things like that don't seem that important and why? "That's what they had to do to get promoted." All I'm saying is how we mandate it TODAY promotes inefficiencies and wasteful spending. Using when you complete a masters as a measuring stick for promotion is backwards thinking. It assumes everyone is afforded the same amount of free time to complete it. Good luck AFSOC bubbas! It shouldn't be a requirement for Lt, Capts or promotion to Major, and it needs to change...TODAY. We no longer have the money to support this inefficiency. Again, education is important. The AF is going to pay for your Masters, so do it for YOU. But, don't penalize those who do it on their own timeline. How about using something like, I don't know, JOB KNOWLEDGE AND PERFORMANCE to measure if someone is promotable or not...just a thought.

Valid, but in a squadron full of CSO's some bright dude will find a way & share it with the rest of us non-brainiacs. Thats why we have R&D.

FIFY

You really, REALLY should consider checking yourself. You may not realize how many people know people who know people who post on this site. Off the top of my head I can name half a dozen guys from work who PID'd me here, and I have done the same to them without too much effort. You REALLY don't want to create some sort of internet persona that you are not comfortable with ALL your coworkers (and presumably your boss) knowing about. Your assertion that "You have no clue as to how I conduct myself and are not in a position to assume such." may be applicable now, but I guarantee that if you stick around here or the Air Force long that will not last, especially in the pilot world. Everyone knows everyone else, and your reputation can precede you more than you may ever imagine, for good or for bad. Getting a bad reputation is kind of like eating tuna in the flight room-- it's a stink that doesn't go away quickly, and you're going to spend a LOT of time and effort trying to live it down.

Some interesting info straight from the SOC commandant: -When the 8 week course starts in January, the intent will be 100% opportunity to attend; class sizes will be increased to ~800 to accomodate -The correspondence course will still be available for people who can't go in-res in their window due to medical profile, deployments, etc. -He agrees that the current correspondence course could be a lot better, and said that the intent was never for the correspondence course to be the de facto prerequisite that it has become. -He's pushing to get the correspondence course scrapped and replaced with a real, facilitated class with an instructor, similar to online master's classes. If he has any say in the matter, he would implement it in a way that taking the new correspondence course would make you ineligible to go in-residence, getting rid of the current norm of doing correspondence just to get an in-res slot. -I don't know if this varies from board to board, but from his experience serving on major's boards, the only difference between having SOS in residence or in correspondence is that in-res gives you the opportunity to get DG. Otherwise, checking the box is checking the box as far as the board's concerned, as long as you have your PME done.

This entire thread reinforces the age-old addage: timing is everything, and there is no justice. My advice as a 12 year major/11F: do what's best for you and your family. We will all (most of us) spend a much longer part of our lives as husbands/fathers or wives/mothers than active military officers.

We've been waiting for you.

Hopefully one that's rigged to explode mid-flight

Your opinion is noted but irrelevant. Brandishing with piss-poor insults to assert your "male dominance" does not work. I expected you to be able to take a joke and have more game, but your post was only intramural-type game and void of any actual verbal skill. I will happily fly and serve my country- I am grateful I am allowed to do that. Feel free to write to your Congressman if that bothers you. In the real world, that is how bitches get things done. To put this simply in words you find communicable: Bend over, bitch. We are going to run the minority train on your ass. Oh hell no. A gay cadet is the only thing worse than a female cadet. Masshole.

Not sure how to read this one. Did Rainman just ask another dude to go down on him?

No. Its how I "study"/check out an approach for example, flying in no shit weather days to places I've never been. It aids me. Was just curious.

Understood.

That is exactly what I wonder. Why do we care if it is slightly more maneuverable? If the T-50 is "less stealthy," then advantage 'Merica.

Attitudes like mine= your psychological assessment. You have no clue as to how I conduct myself and are not in a position to assume such. Do not take that as a personal attack because it is attributed to the anonymity of the internet. I do well for myself and others. Your experience and observations are noted and I will keep them in mind, but your analysis does not really pertain to me. Wait until I do not get what I want? There is nothing I would be unhappy doing in the Air Force and if that does not work out, I have a physics degree to fall on. I am not worried about my future nor would I ever whine if plan A, B, C...ect do not work out. There is a whole alphabet and infinite amount of numbers (read: fallback positions). This thread sucks and I acted like a festering ###### sandwich. Done deal. This is the kind of advice I appreciate from this site (credit to both Rainman and you).