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Yeah, the year of the military family was last year.

Sounds like a party, what's the problem?

I wrote the script for a 3-Star's retirement ceremony once and got his OPRs going all the way back to the 70s. It was pretty cool to see the progression of a GO going all the way back to his UPT training report. I expected to see stacks and stacks of #1s but it became obvious pretty quickly that at different points in time other things were important. There were strats but not all were like the ones we're told are important today. The officer was clearly always the superstar but you had to read the whole OPR to tell that. You could almost see the point where the real strat game started though. It appeared to me to be around the downsizing era of the 90s (from these records anyway). I wonder if that's it - we got too small and too busy for leadership to write and read the meat of an OPR so we turned to the topline/bottom line system that tells you in a 10 second glance whether someone's a dirtbag or superstar... zb

I, for one, welcome my new overlord.

Tell that to Dharun Ravi...

Short PA clip from service.

Was this officer rated? In that case probably none. The fact that you need a combination of voodoo and the Rosetta Stone to tell if a person's OPR is actually good or just sounds good tells you something is rotten in the way we do performance reports and feedback...

You haven't flown in OEF recently. Your info is outdated.

What a stupid ######ing system.

I had a few close calls with USAF RPAs in the AOR....but far more close calls with Navy F-18s in a stack/transiting/ect.

Here's what I meant by "you're doing it wrong" since you're so fucking thick-headed that you take leave to do work-related activities: have the scheduler block you out for "testing" or "ground duties" or whatever floats your boat to indicate that you are doing job-related ground activities. Don't take leave to do work like a jackass.

Hey everybody lets have a big fucking argument about religion. I'm sure we'll finally sort it all out this time.