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I'm still a fighter pilot and will be 'til the day I die.

Nobody gives a fuck what you see the need for. Shut your pie hole or piss off.

if you didn't have to have a PhD to stay in the Air Force, there wouldn't BE any impending pilot shortage. They are doing it to themselves. We are doing it to ourselves. Has anyone seen my reflective belt? Edit: STS. Also, 31 Dec 2012 DOR...freedom!

Roadmap to Chief E-9: Left turn on Reflective Belt Lane, second right on Untucked PT Shirt Road, continue straight on to Queep Street.

Wow. The three fighter pilot non-selects for Major in my ops group are going to roll their eyes so hard their optic nerves might snap when they see THAT at the BX.

Sorry for the long post but as the creator/owner of this data I thought it was my place to explain what the purpose of these slides and what’s the desired effect. BLUF: The intent of these slides is so I can show the TX, SD, CA, OK congressional delegation, the great work we are doing and beg and plead for more money. These are programmatic slides the staff uses to present to pencil pushing number crunchers who only care about the bottom line. Congress often asks, how much do you cost me and what are your results? Right or wrong, these slides are examples of how we on the staff translate combat airpower into dollars. Absolutely they are skewed to make the Bone look good. Almost every MDS PEM on the staff has slides like these, they range from $/DPI based on certain weapons (bomber guys use these) to Investment $ / combat sortie usage (A-10 guys use these). Viper and Strikes don’t need slides because everyone up on the hill loves them already. So when you start to operationalize these slides by asking about sortie duration, loiter time and what type of weapon is needed to create the desired effect, you can easily shoot holes in them. Remember that’s not the intent of the slide. The only true telling indicator in this data is the AFTOC CPFH. Most people quote CPFH #s from AFI 65-503, those numbers are much less because they do not include some Depot Level Repair or contractor logistic support (LO platforms live and die off of this). Basically the old school CPFH #’s you’ve heard all of your life are basically reimbursement costs, i.e what we’d charge Paramount for using CAF platforms in a new movie. AFTOC data is the true indicator. With regards to your original argument; will the LRS-B be cheap, and what will go to the bone yard 1st the Bone or the Buff? Continue to speculate, but I’ll tell you this, if sequestration happens, it won’t matter because your debate will be the equivalent of just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

I wonder what Porkchop, TAMInated, or the others sent on a one-way trip to UAVs think about this.

This makes me "dissapointed."

It's not so much that they have lost their creativity, it's the fact that the economy has put that industry on lockdown. Big name producers like Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc... can't afford to take the risks they used to way back when. Add in the fact that every year, more and more movies are being pirated and leaked before they are even released, and that causes even more turmoil for the movie makers. Unfortunately, now a days, movie makers continue to lower their moral, intellectual, and overall script writing standards to these "generation-x'ers" whose only focus in life is ", money, weed" and facebook statuses. (reference almost any "comedy" in the past 5-10 years and you'll see my point.) These aren't movies, these are instant sellers to retards who watch jersey shore and listen to lil wayne all day when they aren't blaming the 1% for their problems. It's unfortunate that the movie industry has gone down this path. Gone are the days of quality screenwriting, good moral standards in which to base characters off, good acting, interesting storyline, and a coherent plot. Now it's all over producing, stupid MTV music to cheap action sequences, the quintessential love scene, the party scene, the over the top product placement, and the mushy shit to make the girls in the audience cry. Oh yeah, don't forget the titties (not that that's a bad thing). Orson Welles is turning over in his grave right now. /rant off

"If you think the bare minimum is enough, then ok. But some people chose to wear more and we encourage that, ok? You do want to express yourself, don't you?"

Agreed, when it works. It was broken for the first half of the week, at my base anyway. It's ridiculous that random systems are broken for days at a time (like the local network, email, AF Portal, LeaveWeb, ADLS, you name it). That would never happen in civilian life. I've never seen a major website go down for more than a few minutes, much less days.