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Excellence through attrition is a valid gameplan. You CAN be the best of what's left!

I can't get to the portal because General Spencer is talking to me in a video.

That is unpossible...I was told on another thread that there was a glut of rated officers with 15-19 years of service that we don't need to stay in. Either someone doesn't know what they are talking about, or AFPC didn't look a the rated force. My source is an anonymous self-proclaimed 'senior leader' poster on the interwebs who insists he knows A1 better than us pilot weenies, so it MUST be true! On a more serious note, maybe AFPC is beginning to see the light with their rated manning and the pilot hiring boom that keeps getting put off a year every year....nah, who am I kidding, that isn't a serious note either! Don't get your hopes up on this 15-year retirement deal. If the AF was serious about using this as force reduction tool, they wouldn't have so many restrictions. The Air Force knows this would trigger the mass exodus that they know they can't afford...especially on the rated side, and especially as they just sweetened the 'retention pay' deal for so many. It would be too soon... So, "no 15-year retirement for you pilot weenies, suck it up and be thankful you're even here" as an old quiet friend of BODN might say... Edit to add another cheap shot...

Didn't one of their planes crash with Wesley Snipes and Tommy Lee Jones on board?

Yes. Comm says its a high priority trouble ticket that's affecting multiple bases. Sounds like the Chinese are winning to me...

Fvck.... Cannot read the message because no .mil access while on leave -- but, from what I'm reading, I'm: 1. not eligible for the bonus due to TAFMSD 2. not eligible for early out due to 11MXXX 3. not eligible for early out because I'm prior enlisted This circus keeps getting better. GC - please PM me so you and I together can find something where I can get out NOW....I have all my ducks in a row to go make some $$$ in the airlines. I'm your huckleberry....

What are you, new?

Don't kid yourself. No matter what you fly, everyone is supporting someone else's mission.

Maybe thats because some guys just worked hard, flew their ass off, supported their people, led and were promoted to O-6. The reward for all that sacrifice is to be treated like an indentured servant. I got it, most Col's have older parents, most Col's have kids in high school, needs of the Air Force....trust me, I get it. But why do we spend a lifetime developing a senior leader only to ride them like a wet dog? Sadly, it doesn't matter to most of them right now because they are staying in the USAF in record numbers...numbers so high they have force shaping and a SERB on the horizon...hell USAF even got the law changed so you can meet multiple SERBs. USAF is getting away with it right now because the economy is in the dumper...but it will get better and the only ones who will stay are the dirt bags who can't get a job on the outside. What is truly amazing is how the current system became so brutal under Schwartz. In 2009 the Command Candidate Board met with horrible results. At that point you had to raise your paw if you wanted to be considered for senior command, then you got a nomination to back it up. When the board met they did not have enough folks in certain categories. They went back and did some research and found that a LOT of people including 54% of their high-speed below the zone folks declined consideration for command. The results were so bad the service was having a tough time sending all their NDU grads to the legal required (50%+1), joint jobs. Facing this dilemma USAF made an interesting choice, rather than address the problems that were causing so many people to tap out (Ops Tempo), they changed the policy to the "All In Policy". Now every Colonel is considered for Command and if you decline you have 90 days to get out of the service...thank you very much! The problem persists today with some key career fields (Mx), critically short of qualified Col's. Some graduated commanders have been forced into a second command tour (several seven day opted), others are being asked to extend. Oh well, we will just make more.

That's how you know SERE is an Air Force course: you had to do it both in-residence and correspondence.