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It's been a year, we miss you brothers and sister. T3

Tunes, I'd take that bet. After all, we all wrote RRFs the last time this happened.

Haven't been since 'ought three. We wore onions on our belts, which was the fashion at the time.

Irony that the USAF ORM's the heck out of any flight that's taken, yet seems to have no problem having tour buses driving the roads city to city with fatigued as hell drivers, as if this is the 2003 run to Baghdad from Kuwait. Imagine the black eye the image-conscious AF would have if this information was coming out following a multi-vehicle highway accident where a family in a minivan was killed by an AF bus being driven by AF personnel ordered to disregard even the most basic of DOT commercial vehicle safety regulations relating to fatigue/driver duty hours.

The British Army is now running border patrol? And, by the looks of that picture, that's the WHOLE of the British Army, too.

Col (ret) James Kasler has passed away. Three-time Air Force Cross awardee who started out as a B-29 enlisted gunner, F-86 fighter pilot in Korea (and ace), F-105 pilot in Vietnam, and POW in North Vietnam also was awarded 2 Silver Stars, 9 DFCs, 2 BSMs, 2 PHs, and 11 Air Medals. Wow!

It would have been smarter for AFPC to execute this in a graduated manner. Announce a 3-step voluntary process with distinct application windows: Expanded PC, ADSC Waiver, and then VSP. Expanded Palace Chase (1 to 1) only for the first month. Pause for a week and process applications. Release a new matrix (preferably one with numbers vice colors). Open the ADSC Waiver window for a month; you get out of your commitment, but no separation pay. Pause and process. Release new matrix. Now open the VSP window for a month. Pause and process. Release new matrix. Announce the RIF eligible year group/AFSC and offer one last chance to VSP for those who get their RRF and realize that they are #69/69 in the group because they deployed 7 times instead of finishing that last Master's class. Now use the RIF to meet your final manning targets. This way, the most motivated people to get out will go first. As long as you announce the plan early (and then stick to it), people will have more time to plan and I think it would be a more equitable process. Transparency would help too...

Forget this TIB BS. Here's a story about a Nurse out on a night op with the Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice in October to save others. Maybe this TIB chick should realize other chicks are out there who never hoped or sought to be written about how tough they had it. https://www.armytimes.com/article/20140429/NEWS/304290068/The-last-moments-Jennifer-Moreno-an-Army-nurse-killed-Afghanistan

Had to laugh at the Med School Virgin Auction. Here's the line that sums it up: "There will be a legal contract between us," she said. "[The winner] may not be happy [with the sex], but he knows what he's paying for." If a guy just wanted to spend too much money and have disappointing sex, he could just get married instead.

Apparently the current crop of AAFES workers is nearing retirement age, so time to go stock up on fresh talent and get them trained up early. I read "rotational presence" to mean "permanently TDY units", just like they've been doing with the bombers in Guam for many years. We can all hope!

https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/us/severe-weather/ Thought this article was written very... creatively. Author must have been a creative writing major that couldn't find meaningful employment.

Approximately 2% of all USAF officers fly the Eagle.

biggest UPT mistake? Not dumping my girlfriend (ex wife now) before going...Now all the graduation pictures are ruined for me. She wasn't even hot, god damn it.