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There are plenty of pretend pilots that love to do that stuff too.

I have not seen any CC's that were looking to be somebody care if they drove the squadron into the ground, as long as they look good to their rater.

I had my CC explain to me the reason I went off base #2 for school is because the wing commander would not allow a sitting SQ/CC go off base behind a non-CC. Obviously being an IP/FE currently downrange meant nothing. Needless to say, said SFS/CC had no chance of getting picked up and didn't. We laughed over a scotch when I got home. At the time I was securing my guard gig and wouldn't have stayed in for any flavor of school. I say again, separate our promotions from the 0730-1630 support guys with the time/flexibility to be CGOC pres and organize a Habitat build every month. We are not the same.

Step 1a. Create "Executive Officer" AFSC. I'm pretty sure the personal assistant to Google's CEO is not some up and coming programmer who is "career broadening" on their way to the top. BTW, I've met a few support officers who actually really enjoyed doing exec-style work. They were good at it, and they all said if they could have stayed in doing that as a primary duty, they wouldn't have left the USAF after their 4/5 year ADSC.

1. Bring back the orderly room AFSC. And it needs to be an AFSC, not an additional duty for some other afsc. 2. Train the folks in that AFSC on the basics of ALL common unit additional duties and admin support. Ops addl duties like stan eval, weapons, etc would obviously stay with the guys doing it. Same with mx specific addl duties, along with other squadrons where it relates to the primary duty. 3. Staff EVERY unit with a 3-6 person orderly room. 4. Profit.

I could rattle off about ten without thinking too hard...

I've only seen one fighter patch be an exec. I'm sure it's happened more than that one guy, but it's safe to say such a thing is extremely rare. That is insane 1/2 of the execs you've seen have been patches, what a colossal waste of expertise/knowledge.

And while we're at it, let's stop requireing a W pre-fix to be a wing exec. Is this common in other communities? Over half the wing execs I've known have been patches. I'm sure that it's a great use of all the tactical knowledge they gain at weapon school to correct OPR/EPRs and comb through awards and decorations...

My brain just exploded.

Everything old is new again. We went thru this "list your additional duties so we can kill them" drill at least twice since the early 90s. I don't want to be a killjoy, and it's SECAF championing this, this time...BUT: 1) many addl duties are mandated by law (records custodian, voting officer, golden flow guy/gal, etc) 2) some we do because we operators need to do it because no one else understands our programs well enough, or because we want our young guys learning those things (pubs officer, selo, training flight, tactics squab, etc) 3) we did this before...shifted addl duties to the squadron civilians where we could...ISYN, I typed an appointment letter assigning 22 (22!) Addl duties to one civ. Good luck. I hope it takes this time...and Congress gives the AF relief from the mandatory non mission value added duties. LJ

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Safe space/trigger requirements. Kinda like you can't say cockpit anymore... What the is that about. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's still a lot of commanders out there with the anachronistic mindset that no matter how under-resourced, everything will get done. Ok, but you're paying the cost out of somewhere, even if you refuse to acknowledge or quantify that cost. Typically it's on the backs of Airmen (creative leave policies, long days, the list goes on). But hey, MY SQ/GP/WG got everything done, that's what really matters.

No, in fact I think they would think it was weird and short sighted if you weren't exploring all of your options. Keep in mind that units are not only interviewing you, but you are interviewing them as well to make sure it is a good fit both ways.

We are already seeing this at the squadron level. Our DO asked each shop to rank order our additional duties. They are going to rack and stack them and just make a cut off, below which additional duties will no longer be done and the commander will accept the risk. There is absolutely zero reason for a young LT/wingman/copilot to be worried about equipment manager, building custodian, records custodian, whatever bullshit additional duty in place of being the best aviator they can be. That's LRS/CE/FSS/etc's job. Mission first.

On Brexiting BO.net? I don't need you guys. I can make it on my own. In fact, fuck you all, you controlling bastards. On Brexit EU? I think that the underclass majority (non-immigrant, working class) finally got to have their say. After decades of being marginalised by a PC establishment that favours championing the rights of minority groups at the expense of everyone else, they had an opportunity to change the course the country was taking. I'm glad we're leaving. And I'm looking forward to what the future may hold.

Proof that fear, sarcasm, and ridicule are effective instructional techniques.

Yeah, it was a real rocket (engine thrust - about 18k, airframe fueled weight - about 17k with a pattern ride fuel load) and the first ride put you on your back so fast that you didn't really grasp it. The trick was to get it going straight up from standing start to vertical right over the middle of the runway (about 3000 ft from brake release to accelerating vertically), then be able to control it so you recovered without winding up on your back at low airspeed and lose it inverted. You could actually accelerate vertcally until you reached max limit airspeed, and even farther if you wanted to tear the wings off! However, the scariest part of that first ride was when the IP decided to go look at some rental property that he wanted to buy...suddenly there we were about 15 miles SE of D-M at about 100 ft in the -CT hopping over tree lines and wires while he tried to find the apartments. I was "concerned" to say the least, but he didn't seem to think it was a big deal. We went over some trees and pushed back down and wound up staring eye-to-eye with a guy in a big tractor on the rising terrain. We pulled up and he bailed out the side. I couldn't believe it. There was a slightly different attitude among some of those old guys in the 60s and early 70s! Luckily, I flew my next rides with Hector and it was a bit more sane, and we never heard about it from anybody (police, FAA, newspapers, etc.).