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Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Why the move? Flying AH-1Zs sounds freaking awesome. Unless it's a lifestyle change, it seems like it'd be hard to beat what you're doing now. ANG A-10s may be your best bet, but yeah...minimal squadrons are left and RUMINT has them fading fast.

The only action that would be in our national interest would be to strike the factories/stockpiles of chem weapons to keep them out of the hands of Hezbollah and/or AQ. That's it- and even that's a stretch.

Switch games. Starcraft players are treated like rockstars over there.

This is me about halfway through any AFPC checklist

OK. Quick lesson and this is over because no one wants to see this crap on this board. -SOS is not some elite program you attended, get over it -It is not that difficult to get "selected" to go there -Just about everyone on BODN (except SNAPS obviously) has been there and done that -If you want to be a great leader that you seem to want to portray, you should find a way to motivate people that don't have SOS in their future to make it. A real leader will find a way to inspire someone to achieve things. Real leaders don't sit and judge people, especially against one's self -- certainly not using SOS as criteria........SOS? YGBFSM! -You are inspired from some dude named Liquid on this board. Maybe he/she is for real, maybe not....but if that's where you are drawing your inspiration from then I don't even know what to say When I said you are what's wrong with the AF, here's what I am thinking: It seems you think that leadership is about "mentoring" people to be like you -- someone who really thinks that SOS is the end all be all (as an example). Since you went you are the shit and no one can measure up to you. Get over it, I don't care what your commanders say, almost everyone goes to SOS. You aren't special and you need to drink a cup of STFU and listen. OUT. To other posters: You are right, enuf on SOS. Next beer's on me.

But when I was at SOS, we jacked the Apollo 13 award. I mean we were so badass that when we walked up to each challenge, it was like we were in slow motion and shit, and we had a dude that would play this kickass theme music. You shoulda seen it, man. The whole audience was in mouth-breathing awe of of our captainy awesomeness. We'd throw out one-liners, use hand signals, and even made up secret handshakes. We were the top guns of SOS. Our mock PRF boards were so excellent that they snuck in a whole set of actual board records--we killed it. And the wargame, we fist-pumped all night long after defeating the enemy in record time. They didn't stand a chance. We celebrated by getting some fabulous tats. Man, those were the best days of my life and we really showed the AF that we were the most awesome leaders, ever! Thanks SOS!

We need to give up the metaphor of a "form", as though in the modern digital era character counts and "two-pages" mean anything. We use acronyms and incomprehensible language for two reasons: 1) Once upon a time someone had to write performance reports on a typewriter. 2) When you force bad communication, it becomes really easy to hide bullshit. Those are both really bad reasons to recreate OPRs in some wonky document viewer program rather than using the flexibility electronic records should provide. Not sure what a bullet means? Click the expand button to see a plain english description. Not sure about an acronym? Mouse over. Had a kick ass year? Write 20 bullets. No so much? Put down a good 5. One line not enough? Add an explanatory paragraph. PRF time? Click your best 10, then let your boss revise the list, on up to your senior rater. You're a board member and you want to see an officer's strats? Click "Show Strats". Want to see if a senior rater is speeding? View all of their submitted strats for this year group. Tired of printing out records for promotion boards? Here's an iPad. All of that becomes easy if we just get away from the idea that OPRs are a sheet of paper and instead think of them as information. For my next rant, TAFs, METARs, and NOTAMs written as though we were still paying to send them via teletype...