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That depends entirely on whose opinion you give a shit about. He should have abolished Blues Monday in his speech right after taking the guidon. He should have ripped off that hideous drum-major uniform like Hulk Hogan shredding a yellow tank top to display the flightsuit beneath. THAT would have been leadership.

If you're in a deployed location why are they doing a ceremony? The new dude should show up and start working.

I can't put my finger on it but there is something about this guy that reminds me of BQZip's mom.

I think he is wearing Bad Idea Jeans.

"Dozer"

If you make Traditional TSP contributions while in a CZTE, your contribution is non-taxable. The earnings that contribution makes are taxable upon withdrawal. If you make Roth TSP contributions while in a CZTE, your contribution and all earnings from that contribution are non-taxable. Rather significant difference, IMO.

I caught about half of it, very elegant. The man clearly cares. That said, it was obvious that he cares about things that may derail our ability to meet our basic requirements as a service, i.e. budget, readiness, quality of airmen etc. I would put Blues-Monday, for example, at number 1 on his top 10 list of things he probably doesn't give 2 shits about, especially when most of us still get to wear f'ing pajamas to work Tues-Fri. Some complaining from a few airmen about having to dress up one day a week probably doesn't even register on his radar right now. Furthermore, he obviously takes great pride in the privilege to wear the Air Force uniform, flight suit or otherwise, something which a lot of us readily take for granted after a few years. Is he out to make our service better for you and me? Absolutely, but it sounds like he has a different set of criteria by which he will measure improvement. Maybe when/if he succeeds in un-assing our budget he'll take a look a some of the more trivial issues that grate on the force. (unless he addressed any of this stuff in the first half, which I missed. In that case disregard all).

ENJJPT 12-08 AD studs, from a very intoxicated memory: 1xT-38 1xB-52 3xMC-12 1xC-17 1xF-15E 1xA-10 1xF-22 (me!) 2xF-16

Dude, you'll be fine; don't worry about it. You're not going to be missing some piece to the puzzle that is only found at IFS. That's why it's called "Flight Screening" not "Initial Flight Instruction From Which Your Entire Military Aviation Career Will Be Predicated Upon." They'll teach you what you need at UPT. Enjoy the time off until then.