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Rainman, We get it, really, we do, you hate ever having to say your tail #. And yes the tail # on that particular Hog is clearly visable and unambiguous, (82-000656) and yes, any boom worth two squirts of piss should not ask for this tail number. However, the numbers are not always clearly read-able and not always painted in the same last year digit/tail format. How about cutting us some ######ing slack. JP8

FIFY.

Gents, I have not discounted your suggestions. There is a difference between unwilling to help and unable to help. DLA is the Godfather for all of the fuel in the DOD; every service is bound by their systems and their processes. Yet I have been told more than once that I am unwilling to help because I can't change what DLA says we have to do. Believe me - I wish I could. Congress has put our fuel budget under a microscope, but we can't really protest because we can't/don't track what we really use and what we really spend. Until we get to the place where we can accurately measure what we use and what we spend, we will continue to have our budget cut. When our budget gets cut, so do your flying hours. I really am trying to help all of you by dragging the AF - kicking and screaming - to a place where we can account for the fuel that we use and the money we spend to buy that fuel. My question at the start was simple: what's the best way for a fighter to record the gas he gets during an in-flight refuel. The overwhelming answer has been: "...what [i'm] asking for simply isn't possible without some major improvements to the jets (RFIDs, accurate fuel counters, etc)." If it seems that I have dismissed all of your suggestions, it's because almost every suggestion has been about how to NOT pass tail numbers, or how to NOT record fuel received. No one - except for the C-17 driver who posted the first reply - has offered a method to pass information to the WRDCO so he can verify the fuel bills. No one has told me yet why you can't, at the least, document the number of ARs on a mission, and turn that in during your debriefs. The WRDCO will need something he can use to verify those fuel bills when they come across his desk, and I was hoping the community here could offer a viable solution to that problem. All that I have the immediate power to change are processes internal to the Air Force (and by "change," I mean "write guidance into an AFI" - I have no power whatsoever to enforce anything). Some of you will follow them - like the C-17 driver. Some of you will blow them off because you think they are stupid/difficult/impossible. That's fine, but when you do that, you are hurting your own cause. As for the totalizers, RFIDs, AFCENT, et al. I can recommend those things up my chain, but that's all that I have the power to do. Maybe they will gain traction. Maybe they won't. I don't know. If you can't see what I'm trying to do and why, then just continue to consider me a stupid shoe who doesn't understand what the "real" Air Force is about. But when you get pissed because your flying hours become sim hours, and want to know what stupid bean counter made that brilliant decision...go look in the mirror.

Maybe you could make getting your gas like filing a voucher on DTS. You front the money on your CSA and hope for the best when you file your voucher with finance?

I know this website is an escape valve for all kinds of pissing and moaning, but do you really want to start posting people’s pictures and cranking up bitchy personal attacks? The basic theme of the last few posts seems to be “E’s shouldn’t be correcting O’s,” so how about the (apparent) O’s show some GD personal leadership? If you have a problem with this dude, call him. Hiding behind the anonymity of some BS website is a bitch move. RANT OFF

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Yeah, waiting around for your fourth re-engine really blows...

Douchebag shoe clerk. Brabus was spot on - just say "noted" if you don't know for sure whether they're right, and move on. If you're feeling particularly brave... Excellent point. Another manner of dealing with this would be to respond to the major's "mentoring" with a question in the form of what you just posed. Don't be rude, don't be confrontational, be genuinely inquisitive. A true shoe clerk will be able to bust out with the reg, page and paragraph (in which case you are unfortunately in the wrong). But if this person is just being an ass, you'd get a bunch of stammering and something to the effect of, "Well I know it's written somewhere." To which your response should be, "Well, this is my number and this is my email. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know what the reg is - I don't want to be knowingly going against an AF regulation." I bet you never hear from them again, and I bet they never pull that crap on anybody else.