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What the fuck is the matter with you?

It seems to me like you're missing the point, so I'll spell it out a little clearer. Scheming a way to do ACSC as a Capt is about as perfect an example of shoe-clerk, CGOC, party planning, pepper grinding, jack assery as I've ever seen. This culture of "racing to check all the necessary boxes" is a cancer to our Officer corps. It needs to be stamped out. Yet you spend time thinking up a way to game the system and actually take it to another level. You should not have to be thinking about a Masters degree right now, but unfortunately the AF we live in requires it, so go ahead and knock it out. You do not need to be thinking about ACSC right now, so don't. The last thing any of us needs is some a-hole like you to further lower the bar with another idiotic idea to one-up your peers, so that all of your peers feel the need to do the same, so that the new unofficial standard is ACSC halfway complete prior to the Major's board. And don't even think about replying with a lame ass excuse about getting it all done early so you can have more time for your kids that you don't even have yet and that you weren't even thinking about how awesome you'll be when you have ACSC done before all your buddies. Nobody's buying it. Your plan sucks.

MBA or creative writing degree? Holy wall of text Batman!

Believe it. They actually got airborne, but not for long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5xTmmPbsY Should serve as a lesson to other C-5 crews: never take off in a C-5... so much for that privileged use caveat...

Huggy, not sure if you are trying to promote the practice or stain it with that photo of Steve Ritchie...?

In response to the tragic loss of our fellow River Rat and Active Duty USAF F-16 pilot, Major Lucas "Gaza" Gruenther, the River Rats in conjunction with our charitable arm, the Air Warrior Courage Foundation (AWCF) has established a college 529 to accept tax deductible contributions for his daughter's college education. It is very important to follow the directions below, particularly the "In Memory..." verbiage. All contributions are tax deductible. There are two ways to give. 1. Send a check to the AWCF, P.O. Box 877, Silver Spring, MD 20918. In a note or on the check say "In Memory of Major Lucas "Gaza" Gruenther." 2. Using a credit card. Go to our home page at www.airwarriorcourage.org . On the Home page is a DONATE button. Click it and it will take you to a page with a GIVE DIRECT button. Click it and fill in the blanks. In the COMMENTS block put in "In Memory of Major Lucas "Gaza" Gruenther". Please help us get the word out so that we can all support the Gruenther family, part of our River Rat family now and forever, and please give. Cheers, Cap-10

The initial reaction from the 11F guys in the squadron is a big face palm...again, the first batch is at PIT now, so we'll see in 2-3 months when they are done. We have had some issues with the one assignment bomber guys that barely made AC before showing up to teach T-38's. We washed one out of MQT about 1.69 years ago, and the two most recent guys busted a couple of MQT rides (there are only 5 rides total). One of them was CC directed to start MQT over. We are expecting more of the same from the C-17 bubbas...nothing against them, but thinking and flying at 400 knots and leading 2-ship low levels hasn't exactly been their skill set for the last 3 years, so we are expecting some difficult transitions like we've seen from the young bomber guys. I'm not saying they can't learn the skill set, but we defiantly expect them to struggle out the gate. The problem I see is that, with the manning levels like they are, the squadron can't afford to restrict instructors and make them a single ship transition guy only, or try to schedule to make sure the c-17 driver doesn't have to lead a 4 ship or 2 ship low level ever....my flight currently has 5 full time IP's (4 AD and 1 AGR) and 14 students....we need IP'S that can teach across the entire spectrum of flights or they become a limfac. We try to pair the noob IP's with some senior pilots who try to keep an eye on them. As best we can, we also make sure they get to sandbag (direct support) some 4 ship and 2 ship low levels before they have to lead them on their MQT/BIP checkouts. If the proposal to cut the number of 11F's going to T-38's is allowed, pretty soon the only guys that have actually been to IFF will be the fighter guys who are Reservists. Time will tell... Cheers, Cap-10