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Standard answer: Don't join reserves or guard. Be a straight A college student in a degree you're interested in, don't break any laws, chase skirts, have fun, get slot, profit.

The F-22 was junk for a while, hell, the F-16 was junk for a while. Give it time, it can't all be Ironman on day 1.

Yes, all future AFRC boards.

Two piece flight suits are legit, especially when wearing armor in a helicopter with no air-conditioning. Or for the sweaties when they're pre-flighting or loading cargo so they can take off their blouse instead of tying their flight suit around their waist and risk getting yelled at by SMSgt Dicks-a-lot.

Macy's presented a "4th of July Fireworks Spectacular" today, broadcast nationwide by NBC. The Air Force Band was the primary band for the actual fireworks performance. Kool-Aid was one of the primary sponsors of the event. This all led to this glorious image.

You mean heritage room? With SAPR and all can't have bars because they cause people to rape.

RE: AMS Mail Robot Action for all Rated Officers - Log in to Career Path Tool/MyVector "Attention rated officers, Coming this summer, the Career Path Tool will be launched as MyVector - a one-stop shop IT tool for mentoring and career development. " Isn't this what the bar is for?

It sounds like there are a lot of deployed staff positions that are just a waste of everyone's lives and could just be eliminated. But some of them are probably justifiable as necessary *if* a contingency kicked off even if they're a total life suck otherwise. For those, I propose BSF's trademarked "Deploy from Home" concept. For the first two weeks of your 180-day PowerPoint extravaganza, you deploy, drop your bags off, and learn what your job would be if you ever had to do it. Then, rather than having your life wasted with busy work, you fly home, use the magic of the Internet to stay plugged in, and go about your normal life on a 12-hour mandatory recall. We wouldn't even need to move your bags. Just drop you on any available flight. At the end of your tour, if nothing happens, your stuff gets shipped back to you. Yeah, it would kill your leave plans for 6 months, but the deployment was going to do that anyways. Would it work for every job? No. Could it work for a lot? Probably. Just a thought.

So to summarize...you're a cadet and you have not yet been to field training, yet you feel confident enough in your vast experience to comment on what it takes to succeed at field training, the purpose of field training, how to prepare appropriately for field training, the appropriate length of field training, who should apply to field training, the true purpose of the GMC program, and what constitutes a "high stress" environment. Did I miss anything?