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You know that is not our job anymore in today's Air Force. Our jobs today are to be the Wing Combined Federal Campaign Officer or the Group Christmas Party planner. Flying and studying all flying related materials are now extra duties we accomplish when we have spare time from our primary queep duties!

Better question: Who pays for her to eat that much? Who pays for her medical bills? If she's anything like this fat ass, she relies on the hard work of people that have real ambitions. She doesn't work: "The unemployed mother – who cannot work because of her weight..." She has good medical care: "I'll immediately contact my doctor for advice" She eats like an elephant: "Miss Eman visits the supermarket once a month with her sons Gabriel, 16, and Brendin, 12, and spends up to eight hours filling six trolleys." People like this disgust me. They are complete failures at life and drag their kids into it. Like the whale that gave birth at 532 lbs, it's ok to put your children at risk so you can break a record. It's ok to contribute absolutely nothing to society and in fact demand that society helps you achieve your "goal." Fat pieces of sh!t like this really sum up what is wrong with so many in the world today: They have no real purpose in life; live off the government; believe their actions are justifiable, even noble; and worse, people, including companies like Guinness, support this kind of behavior by acknowledging and encouraging it. Irritating.

A reply from a SMSgt friend of mine who I hope like hell makes chief one day. I sent him a copy of the E-9's E-Mail and asked him what his first thought was on it. This is the response I got back: P.S. He proudly wears a Maintenance badge. It seems like 99% of the problems in the SNCO corps are non-maintainers.

This is my surprised face. Task a group of shoes to work on solutions to a customer service problem, and "reducing service hours" is bound to percolate to the top of the idea list.

Ahh, Rainman you are always there for the community. How many baseops regulars will loudly and proudly proclaim thier love for you come 20 September?

So North Korea now has 4G service?

It doesn't hurt to prepare for a checkride. You are demonstrating to the evaluator that the eval is important to you. The N/N and spot evals are designed to ensure that you are safe and complying with command guidance all the time. If you don't prepare for an annual eval you may pass, but I want to see you strive to do great. I don't know a single copilot/AC that knows it all, hitting the books a little harder (sts) isn't a bad thing, is it? I think it is also good form to start the eval by having the examinee recite the Airmen's creed followed by all verses of the AF song. Excellence in all we do, right? JK

Yeah, definitely let the Stan Eval shop know who is boss. And don't ever forget Rule #1 when it comes to check rides: when in doubt, always argue with your evaluator - especially when you know you are right.

Never go full retard. FAIPs should not be giving form 8s, they don't have the picture.

Wasn't that the quote on the sign that the aircrew would walk under at Ubon RTAFB during the Vietnam War? As an example of how things have changed since; When flying C-17's from Rhine-Main AB to downrange locations (2002-04), the last sign we would see when leaving the ops building (which was near the flight line) reminded us to don our cover and to salute. I haven't been downrange or to the Deid since 2004, but it seemed to me at that time we were trying to prosecute a war(s) with a peacetime mentality - not those on the ops side, but practically everyone else. From what I read, things haven't change much.

Great thread. Thought you guys might like this article about the Navy's side of the dysfunctional DOD family. This is the first time in my 9 years that I've seen someone above the O-4 level write about how FUBAR Naval Aviation has become. Written by no less than a former Secretary of the Navy. http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2011-09/naval-aviation-culture-dead

Look, like BigBear said, I'm not going to buy into saving an extra 69# of gas per mission when we are flying empty I would guess at least 25% of the time. I've seen countless times flying from the states to some place in SWA with 18 pallets and 69,000 pounds of stuff, then going back with absolutely nothing when i know there is something within an hour or two that need to get back to the states. And don't get me started with the types of crap that we haul to these locations... last trip I was on we flew at least 12 light carts to this undisclosed location when I can almost guarantee they have more than enough of them there already, but since the ones there aren't for the unit that is deploying then we have to haul them out. From what i've seen from the MIF software so far is the same that we've been doing before in the C-17. Fly 2-4k below max altitude and M .74... slower if you have a tailwind and faster if you have a headwind.... got it... we had a checklist that told us the exact same thing in the past. We already have enough to do from alert to takeoff that this is just another hinderance. Instead of this program, we should have hired fedex to teach us to run like their shipping model. I guarantee we would save more fuel that way than this program. Just my .02.

If we want to save fuel, we need to stop flying empty or mostly empty so damned often. I'm sure the software will help safe fuel, but when I burn 60K to fly 2 pallets of ######ing bubblewrap, my motivation to penny pinch goes up in smoke.

If you're not ready for a checkride EVERY time you step, you probably shouldn't step in the first place. I don't get these guys who have to feverishly prepare for a checkride... isn't it your JOB to be as goos as you can be at all times?