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Head to your nearest airport and talk to a C-5 crew. Chances are better than average that Fred is there waiting on parts.

It's on youtube. Posting a link to youtube doesn't spread it around more. It's not like I made a copy and showed my wife (like an unnamed aviator)

There is analysis...it starts at 0:42. So, not legal.

It's just crazy that something like that could happen with an aircraft with not one, but two, Flight Engineers on board. Unfathomable.

Feel the heat? If you read my post in "Making Better Leaders," I shared the following point: There is one recipe that has shown itself to work more often than not when it comes to getting promotion. 1. Know the game: Masters ASAP, PME when eligible ASAP, volunteer for each and every big additional duty from CFC to AF Ball. These are the elements of DPs and higher points on the promotion boards. You, my man, are playing this exact game. Some dick on a promotion board will see your scheme and think that somehow in this Gods green grass and blue sky earth that you are a better leader than everyone else and award you some secret extra points. Your peers, on the other hand, will see you as a scheming douche, as noted by some of my collegues postings above. Out

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.

My favorite book review: "I read this book last week and yesterday I got my first job as a fighter pilot. Can anyone recommend a good book on learning how to speak like a native north Korean? I start on Monday so it has to be a short book."

So much potential. Hopefully, this project meets the expectations of this team's previous accomplishments. So much potential for fail. I still think that Red Tails was a cleverly disguised hate crime.

This is important. We don't ever want to go back to air supremacy being in question.

The dominance in airpower we enjoy today is directly related to the sacrifices they made. I bet they would be proud. Can't wait to see this on TV.