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Was going to say the same about Cyber. Sure, there's the cookie cutter path. But 1 of 4 CC's I've had has done that. The rest were's RAS's, led an engagement team in Afghanistan and the other was just wierd. Also, we've got a lot of 2 time CC's for some reason. I find it interesting the people railing against the exec/school path are those that lack perspective.. the same thing the exec/school path is supposed to teach. Had a Marine O6 that I worked for and we talked briefly about selection. He was infantry, but said he could have easily been selected for Supply. He said, "You can't just have all your shit-hot Officers in Infantry. We need good ones in all the jobs or the whole thing breaks. I got lucky, that's all."

And by the time we get it, the rest of the AF will have long since abandoned it for the next thing.

In AFGSC, not just limited to A3H (if...and I'm assuming here... the H is for helicopters). We had a SPO rep stand up and tell us recently that essentially they were surprised that Link 16 was viewed as an important capability.

Image of said retrofit:

No, married to one so I've seen the work, but being a glorified secretary was never my goal when joining the AF. I've attended a few worthless USAF schools but not ACSC in res as I presume you are inferring. All my knowledge of the happenings are from friends and colleagues who have. I'm not sure why my attitude seems the exception but I could think of nothing worse than spending a year of my life at Maxwell. The only good thing I've heard is its a year long vacation from the CAF and it's easy. But I don't hate the CAF so I'm fine sticking around. I fly my lines, do my work and go home to my kids while the careerists slug it out with extra work and politics for the same paycheck. While they take on an extra meaningless project to impress the boss, I have a jack and coke in the bar. Someday their hard work might pay off with a sweet Pentagon staff tour or being a generals aide. Good for them if that's what they want. Climbing the big blue ladder by being an exec and doing school was never a dream of mine. Getting paid to fly jets and have a family was. And I'm succeeding. Cheers

There's potentially a shit-ton of money to be saved long-term by having a common logistics tail across multiple MDSs. This of course means the idea is a non-starter for the AF.