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Has anyone else started skipping over nsplayr's eye numbing posts and simply reading only the posts around his to get the gyst? Maybe I just have a short attention span?

This. The delays are real. Exactly, in my mind the single biggest cultural problem we have is the "I had to do it so you should to" attitude. The bullshit always adds and rarely subtracts.

uhh... this is pretty much how it is now days. 3 Yrs. I'm almost mission qual'd and when I get to it, I will be just short of 3 years. I'm probably toward the front end of being MR outta my UPT class. Couldn't have streamlined it more, I even got bumped up 2 months before UPT and then started FTU 3 months earlier than scheduled. Pretty similar for just about every ROTC guy I know. Academy guys get through about 6-9 months quicker (literally), at least from my class, because they went straight to IFS, skipped ASBC and went right to pilot training without stalling. God forbid you're a ROTC guy who went to Whiting, even the academy guys I know who went to Whiting and graduated UPT when I did are about to pin on captain and just getting Mission Qual'd. My ROTC bros on the other hand got the generous 6 months of no pay, no scholarship eligibility, no TA, and no G.I. bill. Work full time to pay rent/food, not enough time to then work for the money to pay for a masters and take the masters class. DOR is 3 months into that 6 months. Those 6 months + 5 months ASBC/IFS/random weeks in between trainings/Casual + 1 year of pilot training + 10 months for PCS/SERE/FTU/Mission Qual'ing = just short of 3 years from commissioning streamlined to Mission Qual. I don't really care that it took me this long, and I plan on having my masters early enough into being a Captain that it won't matter. But I had to throw in my 2 cents because evidently those who saw what must have been a better system just seem to really have a hard time fathoming that it is currently taking this long now to get pilots Mission Qual'd. There's plenty of ways to streamline the overall system even more. Evidently we just have to go back to the way it was when some of the older members of the board went through. Maybe this AF wouldn't be so fucked up if you could make rank by using the mind set of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Instead, now we have everything "fixed".

Or...play the game, assimilate without surrendering, progress, survive the lobotomy and when the time is right, be the agent of change...do it for the bros behind you.

Right on brother. We're officers for a reason. "Challenge assumptions, improve processes, identify gaps, fix problems"

My stripes agree with the general sentiment of this thread... Gotta get back to working on that class for my CCAF and stop reading officer complaints...

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.

I was unaware the T6 had a galley.

Fuck DECA/AAFES. I make every effort possible to avoid supporting these institutions. If your base is the the middle of nowhere or an overseas location, it make perfect sense to have one. But for the most part they are unnecessary on modern AF bases, just a place for arthritic old farts to shop and middle-aged asian women to have a job. When you factor in the surcharges, you're paying more than you would off base.

Bullshit. Change the system so the next guy doesn't have the same stupid ass rules you had. I refuse to either do the full-stiff arm that results in total career failure or the bend over and can I please have some more sir. There is a middle ground where you know the rules, check the boxes when appropriate, but do everything possible to both change the system and steer those younger than you on the correct path, which to me is focusing on the mission first and doing anything else second. It's not even that most people are bad aviators. I'm perfectly capable of doing my MA and being competent in the jet and so is any other bro except maybe the bottom of the barrel. My point is that as I've grown in the squadron and experienced more, I'm realizing more and more all the stuff I don't know. Because of this, I want the next guy who'll replace me not to make the same mistakes I did and I strongly believe that involves focusing more attention on primary duties and less on MAs, SOS, snacko, etc. Hell, there supposedly was a mythical time in AFSOC where new guys didn't even have additional duties for a period of time (rainman, feel free to kick me in the balls if my history is wrong here). What a concept...the mission is so important that it's all we want you to focus on when you're fresh out of the school house. Go F yourself...really? I'm more than happy to explain this concept to any airman in my squadron and I'm sure they'd agree that the AF puts too much emphasis on looking good and box-checking education versus being good at your primary job. Ask them about the pressure to finish up that online Bachelors in General Studies if they don't really want to and don't need it for their job... I don't really know, it just seems like a really long time since dudes are now pinning major around 11 years total, to not even get a first look until 12 and then pin on 6-9 months later. Haven't been around enough to know the consequences of promoting slow versus promoting fast and obviously there are positives and negatives to both. I'm still pissed that my army buddies all put on O-3 after 3 years but whatever...they have to be in the Army so that more than makes up for it.

Also never pass up the opportunity to use spell check.

Three cheers for dick-sucking!

Home: 0, 0, 1, 0 Desert: 1, 1, 1, 1 2!

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.

To OP: yeah, there are assholes out there like this guy too

It's called a cockpit for a reason, not the box office. If God had intended for women to fly the sky would be pink, not blue.

Reading fail...scroll up read again and punch yourself in the nuts...