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Instead of making people guess if there is going to be continuation from year to year, the AF just needs to start being straight forward with bubbas and stop playing "I have a secret" with people's careers. All they are really doing is making dudes on the fence go the other way (STS). We already know promotion opportunities are going to be limited as the AF tries to trim overmanned year groups over the next few years, so just be up front with people. I'm no personnelist, but I can't imagine it being difficult to manage personnel when we have ADSCs...so it should be pretty predictable when people can separate. If you know you have too many pilots (or insert AFSC) in a given year group, give bubbas the opportunity to separate voluntarily if they've been passed over once to avoid a second one. Imagine the amount of separation pay the AF could save. (I may have to submit that to the IDEA program)

I wonder if the first half of this book will be about Buds like every other SEAL book ever written.

Yep, I am one of the 157 who got booted last year and am now a 0-5 select in the Guard. Getting a twice passed over waiver was a non event. I know of 4 others from the 157 in the same boat who are now all 0-5 selects - 3 pilots who went reserves, 1 space guy who was in my Guard unit, who now landed an AGR gig as a DO of a space squadron. I'm a 12R nav in an AOC unit as a traditional Guardsman. Nice thing is I'm currently TDY on 120 day AD orders with a 1 year PCS that will start in Oct. When I'm done with that next year I will have just over 2 years left of AD time to acheive to get a full AD retirement. I hope to get that wrapped up within 5 years of bumming it. Nice thing is I will be able to retire as an 0-5 vice 0-4 had I been continued in the AD. I think that I'm playing the game well. It is curious that there hasn't been much word on what happened with this years twice passed over dudes. Maybe its back to continuation as usual in the AD. Perhaps cutting 157 majors last year was all Big Blue needed to do to get the manning back on glide slope. By the way, my unit would hire a few 11F, 11B, 12F, 12B types in a heartbeat. We are hurting for kinetic guys.

Don't quit your day job.

Back to the Olympics theme from a couple weeks back of comparing today's athletes w/ those past...every men's olympic 100 meter dash medalist ever. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/05/sports/olympics/the-100-meter-dash-one-race-every-medalist-ever.html

Should have told The Aristocrats.

Other than the PJ...*cringe*

A great photo posted by Beale AFB's Facebook... Beale AFB Facebook

Huh, instead of quote I hit like. Which I didn't mean to. I meant to say, for someone who's life is so great you seem pretty bitter.

I have been absolutely screaming for years about the loss of orderly rooms. I too, like the other old codgers here, remember those days well. The admin dudes/dudettes were called, "702 troops". Then, they became, "IMs". Then, they became gone. Finance was a trip to the CBPO (consolodated base personnel office) building to sign out your gangsta roll for your trip. If you actually had a Diner's Club credit card, you just stapled your receipts to your voucher, upon return, turned them in to the desk, waited 15. The finance officer would review it and the A1C with the pistol in the cash cage would issue you some cabbage. Even the mere mentioning of bringing back "O" rooms makes a bit of drizzle run down my leg. You young guys are in for a real treat, if this is true. P.S. I hope the guy who invented DTS lives a thousand years with his shame.

Can you be considered for a FAIP slot if you have X-amount of years already in? My husband is "open-minded" to FAIPing, and I have been told that he won't FAIP because he'll hit 10yrs this July, and I have been told that he can be FAIPed.. Was curious if anyone on here knew the "story".

I don't understand why some people have this weird itch to be FAIPs. I still can't fathom why someone would desire to become a USAF pilot, yet want to put off getting qualified in an MWS and going to do the real J-O-B. There are a couple decent things about being a FAIP -- the problem is that none of them are any better than the benefit of just going to a real MWS and being a MR pilot. Family life? Yup, it's nice to be at a non-deploying 730-1630 job in the CONUS. Someone all ready said it earlier -- remember that there's a career beyond your first assignment, and you may very well want that cushy AETC job in 3-4 years when your kids are older. Your back-to-back ops assignments, or worse, your ops-to-remote-to-staff, or any other combination that leaves an AETC tour out of the picture may not be as good as it sounds now. A bunch of flight hours early in your career? Whoop de doo. FAIPs that come through IFF and FTU are exactly the same as any other student. They don't get treated any differently and, for the most part, they don't perform any differently either. I think they upgraded to flight lead just as fast as anyone else did in my ops unit (translation: nobody in a fighter unit gives a crap about the 1 hour you had in a T-6 1,000 times over with a student). I hear that in the heavies you'll get a faster upgrade to AC, though -- and you'll still be years behind the guys who were in your UPT class. I was in a non-rated job for the first 3-4 years I was in the AF. Although I learned a lot there and I feel it not only helped me in UPT but also my development as an officer, I would never recommend that someone that wants to become a pilot go do a tour as a non-rated guy first. I feel the same way about FAIPing. If it happens to you, then fine...make the best of it and you may be able to turn that flight/instructional experience into some benefits later in your MR career. But why would you voluntarily stiff-arm getting to the meat of the reason you wanted to become a military pilot??