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I'd tell the dude to fuck off.

Someone misses flying fighters and thinks he's funny. He's not.

Come on...we all know memos like that only come out on Friday of a 3-day weekend

That ADO needs to be less clever, and more effective.

Disclaimer: I haven't seen this email except for on this page. I agree with all the other comments so far...that email is WAY off the path. You have to tell your leadership when you know your wife is going to give birth...if you know she's pregnant, and you know when she's due, and you don't tell anyone until you're due for your deployment, then you are a shit bag. Now someone else is going to have to pack a sack, kiss the wife and kids, and go in your place with little notice. This person that is eating this shit sandwich knows this could have been avoided if you didn't keep information of massive magnitude to yourself, will be pissed off, and has every right to be. Over and over again...I keep coming across the line, "I honestly didn't think I needed to tell people that, turns out I did." That email doesn't surprise me at all. The content/wording of it does, immensely, and I can hardly even wait to check my home station email and see who wrote that! As for the leave...seriously? You need to take leave out of the local area AFTER you out process? I don't know what "recent incidents" there were, but they must have been pretty stupid to have allowed someone to read this email over and think it was cool to hit send. As for the DO comment...did you know that ACC has an experiment going where we pick Majors to be DO's now? I know of 3 "selected" individuals to fill that billet. Not the brightest idea I've ever heard, but I'm sure there are O-4's in the Air Force that are up for the task. Sigh. Thanks for posting that, I've never looked forward to checking my email while I'm deployed more than right now! Bendy

Nevermind the DO -- where the ef is the SQ/CC?

FIFY, dude.

I love the internet. See above for a good reason not to lead via email. Chuck

i guess that CSAF leadership by memo aint coming out today. Color me shocked.

It's SECAF approval

Why do you want to leave the army for the AF?

Add 30.

These guys are both incredibly lucky. At the fields I have flown into and out of with lots of jump ops both sides generally mesh just fine when the DZ is well defined and with good de-confliction to the normal fixed wing patterns (north traffic only etc..). However I have flown into many many fields where the DZ's are not as well defined, barely de-conflicted, and both sides believe they own the airspace (notable is Eloy, AZ). NOTAMS, temporary or permanent do not solve nor do they even abate the conflict issues. I always check NOTAMS before I fly and but just knowing that jumpers are up hasn't always helped. Jumpers aren't always where they should be and airplanes aren't either for that matter. I have had jump planes release jumpers in and directly over the traffic pattern. I have had jumpers cut across my runway while I was on final at 50'. I have had them land in front of me while rolling out the runway. I even had a kid run across the runway, chute in hand while I was just above the flare. I went around, and as I flew over him my (very light btw) prop wash caught part of his cute knocking him over on the active. This led to 3 more other airplanes to go-around or break off while he got his shit together.The DZ was centrally located on the field (Marana, AZ for those of you familiar) and in general there should have no reason for them to stray across the active runway but they did anyway, having jumped early. Rather than land off DZ and wait for a ride they pushed to make it. Totally disregarding the powered flight traffic pattern. I figured 3 instances at a field where jumpers are up all the time isn't bad and most of the time no issue but still. Same time I have watched aircraft cruise right over the DZ after multiple calls from the drop plane. Even heard more than a few pilots express the view that jumpers should just avoid them where ever they fly. Fact is, the airfield is the domain of landing and departing AIRCRAFT. The DZ is the domain for JUMPERS and they need to be well separated and defined. No matter what you NOTAM or publish in an AFD someone will miss/ignore it. If you want to be safe, separate and mark clearly. I've always thought that pattern restrictions printed on the sectional where the best way to go.

And for the trouble of flying them longer than their service life we all play test pilot/cso. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And that is why I don't skydive.

Hey FNG, stand up and tell us about yourself...

So competing in Cross Fit competitions is one of my civil rights. I've never thought of this complex concept from such a point of view before. I'm going to go to Pizza Hut, ask them for a Whopper, and sue them for a million bucks for infringing on my civil rights to eat what I want to eat at Pizza Hut. Am I doing this right? This world is getting more baffling by the day. No wonder you start out knowing it all and end up wondering WTF is going on... Bendy

Well according to this email notification I got yesterday, the FAA is busy doing other things..

I think you are trying to say that you have an ADSC that will be completed before most other pilots in your same year group. Everyone receives the same 10 year ADSC for UPT...yours wouldn't the shorter or longer.