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Did we miss the USMC Birthday?

Since no one was hurt it's not too soon...saw this already circulating:

Depends on which ones. The average O-6 and above that has gone thru AF Shoe Clerk Fight Club training not so much. The first rule of AF SC Fight Club is not necessarily to do a good job but to have nothing go wrong, embarrassing or awkward on your watch. The second rule is to do a good job if it is not in conflict with rule 1, a mediocre or even piss poor job is acceptable if rule 1 is preventing rule 2 from being accomplished. From the JQP, a precisely worded moment of clarity: the base has too many managers trying to zip around the base to too many make-work meetings under the pretense that anything they’re doing is actually important. and that gem reminded me of a related article I read a few days ago: https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/its-time-to-upgrade-the-defense-department/ The focus of this article is the rise of tail at the expense of the tooth in the whole of the DoD, for the AF I would imagine it being par or greater than our sister services. The micro management of the Died being just a prominent manifestation of this problem. Just dreaming here and this has 0.69% chance of happening but if we want to fix the AF, we need a panel of O's & E's in the mid range of rank and experience to go thru and just ask O-5's to O-8's & E-7's to E-9's...

Clearly, you haven't spent much time in joint billets.

I think the most telling part of that article is the woman "realizing" that the behavior talked about in the SAPR brief matched his actions and then pressing charges. If you have to go to a class and be told that you were "assaulted" for you to notice it then you most definitely weren't actually assaulted.

Ruger makes awesome revolvers. Very cool gun.

https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/download/deptula_11-05-15

This seems like potentially a big deal: https://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2015/November 2015/November 12 2015/Major-RPA-Restructure-Coming.aspx "Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh will announce a major restructure of the remotely piloted aircraft career field's force structure and basing by "early next week," Air Combat Command chief Gen. Hawk Carlisle said Tuesday. Speaking with defense reporters in Washington, D.C., Carlisle said USAF recently wrapped up a month-long assessment by a team of 50 people visiting RPA sites and talking to those in the career field. They recommended the Air Force "open up some new locations" for RPA operations because of the austerity at some of the facilities where RPA mission control elements are based now, especially Creech AFB, Nev. Additionally, Carlisle said, "We could ... move them to different parts of the world, to get different time slots as well," presumably so RPA operators don't have to work as much off-cycle from the locations where they live. Airmen in RPAs want three things, Carlisle said: time to spend with family, to go to schools, to have "different jobs," and to take vacation, etc; a "strategic plan for the enterprise," meaning insight into where the MQ-9 Reaper mission is going and the different roles it could fill in the future; and to know that "we're listening to them. And we are." Carlisle said it's not well understood outside of the RPA community that the enterprise has been in "surge mode for 15 years" with no letup in expansion or demand, and it's still not clear how big the RPA enterprise is going to get."

Need an ankle holster recommendation for my new carry gun: Seriously though, hand-me-down from my father in-law, it was his father's before that. Ruger Security Six with only about a dozen rounds down the barrel, six of them mine.

Electronic warfare will always be a game of countermeasures, counter-countermeasures, counter-counter-measures, etc, ad nauseam. Anyone who thinks their shiny new F-35 automatically guarantees them 20 years of invisibility to the enemy is fooling themselves. The bad guy will buy/develop/steal better radar technology. IR detection technology will improve. Some new game-changing technology will come about where jets are detected from 100 miles away by the smell of the landing gear wheel bearing grease. And on and on. If I were the Israelis, I'd buy the F-15SE now, and start buying F-35's another 10 years from now, when the bugs have hopefully worked out. I gotta think the US would be all for this course of action too. Gotta keep those folks down at the F-15 production line in St Louis working!

Chiming back in after a couple years. I got selected at age 31. So if you are wondering, it is possible if you are determined to make it happen!