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I'm just a lowly Flt/CC, but in my little kingdom, your worthless Masters degree has 0 bearing on my Flight rankings. Unless you are shirking other responsibilities to do that Masters, at which point you can find yourself in the bottom third. If you are doing it and still the best FP in the flight, good on you. At my level though, with ~15 Lts and Jr Capts in the flight, I haven't ever seen a need to use a Bac+ or Masters as a "tie breaker."

Was anyone else a little bit upset when TA got reinstated? All this talk about potentially masking higher education was getting me excited.

This surprises you? I could tell by the trailer that it was going to be bullshit...

Rainman sighting...in Alabama

Nothing wrong with this, unless they have their pubs already and can start studying. Perhaps it is my little microcosm of AMC, but I still see the people who do the j-o-b getting the top copilot strats. At the same time I'll tell you to do your AAD at "the right time"...when you've got a good grasp on your jet and office job, I'll also tell you to get your SOS done immediately when you're eligible because it's so damn easy...if it took any kind of brainpower or time away from the j-o-b, then it might be a different story. Plus, if you wind up in some weird job where you can't do SOS in residence...I know a few people who didn't go because of luck/timing...it's just good to be done. Same reason why I knocked out ACSC as soon as I could and before I pinned on Maj...because I doubt I'll ever go in residence. It feels good to be done. Right time, right place, right uniform. Oh god, did I just quote G-Lo?

Olympus has Fallen is a giant steaming pile of shit. If you can make it past the first hour without hurling your popcorn at the screen in rage, you're a better man than I.

No. Not good on them. Unless they are the top wingman, copilot, or whatever because of their knowledge, skill, and flying ability...and they still have free penguins for the AAD. But if they're trading off primary job performance for an AAD, they're absolutely wrong. Stop perpetuating this crap. You don't need an AAD to make Capt. You need to be good in your primary job. AAD is for Maj only because the man demands it.

I went and fixed my post. I was referring to this: This is the scheming I'm referring to. Now, responding to your point: There are indeed silly people that sit on promotion boards and will somehow believe that someone that started PME on day 1 of eligibility are somehow the most magnificent leaders since Jesus. Pathetic? Yes. Reality? Yes. Go along? Up to you. As for the masters, I hope common sense rolls in on advanced degree full retard and the AF says that a masters is not required, nor is it desireable for you to get until you are at least a Capt (preferable not needed until LTC board). I see dudes in training with the masters book open vice the dash 1 or 3-3. Someone's going to get hurt if we continue to play that way. Until then, AF has said LOUD and CLEAR, your masters is more important then flying planes. Flying planes doesn't get you promoted, but that masters will. Fucked up, absolutely. Out

Assuming this was the first fail, they couldn't have sent the Colonel to the remedial PT course with the rest of the chubby/slow airmen? I think watching the Full Bird take his lumps like anyone else would set a better example than resignation. The waist measurement is retarded as is anyone who supports it. If Chief Cody gets it canxed, he will have single handedly justified the existence of his billet.

I read in this awesome spy handbook written by some dude named Sterling Archer that as long as you don't tell a honeypot anything useful your only risk is getting a torn rotator cuff from high-fiving everybody. Clearly this guy didn't do it right.