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From what I learned at the 187th FW's meet-and-greet a few weeks ago, it just depends on if Sheppard has a class available sooner than anyone else. Not all Guard fighters go there, and you don't have to do a special application for it.

Hey guys, Wondering what you guys saw in regards to Med paperwork Post Tentative Approval. I'm trying to get the second endorsement of the 1288 signed but the guard wants a flight physical and dental prior to signing. Big this is i'm trying to keep my Req DOS. Thanks MH

Thanks brotatochip. Our most recent Navy guy did NOT make a good impression. The two before him weren't terrible, so still batting .667 for the long haul. We hired our first Strike Eagle pilot for the transition recently - we'll see how that goes!

They have a former Navy guy, hope he made a good impression. Joking aside, its a great unit, and in reality, a pretty good location.

No F-15 experience over here, unfortunately. But more than my share of flying with a WSO in F-18s. Bottom line - Single seat trumps all. There are WSOs/Navs who are worth their weight in gold, but I would trade them for having to fly with the others. Something about being up there alone, or even better, with three of your buddies who are all in sole control of their machines.

Well, I wouldn't say "new" password. Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network Forums

Search the thread, I've been pretty consistent with what I think. Vandy should be smarter than this, and it has a sheen of desperation. End the bonus entirely, increase fly pay to 2016 dollars at all levels, reduce initial ADSC to 6 years, let commanders at gp and sq work assignments by ending the RSAP and bringing back ACE at RPA wings and certain other bases. Not to mention the political stuff like letting State to State stuff and USMil do USMil stuff.

Shack, we have little control...it is sickening how high some of the most basic and mundane decisions are pushed just to CYA. For a service that has the tenet "Centralized Control, Decentralized Execution." the service takes great pride in throwing that out the window at every opportunity. My first real clash with the system occurred when I was a squadron commander. I was given the AFPC commanders hotline which was a direct number a G series commander could call to work real people issues. The officer side was fairly straight forward in that I knew the lanes I could work to impact a person's career and assignment options. The enlisted side was a complete abomination. Long story short, I was manned at 63% on the enlisted side and I had a guy who had been in the unit for two years and had some family issues (his dad was terminally ill),...suddenly they wanted to move him to the AOC and replace him with a line Instructor from the critically manned ops unit. I found out the ops unit was going to get a long-term DNIF guy coming back from overseas. I talked to the other two squadron commanders and we all agreed, let the ops guy keep the much needed instructor, let me keep my guy who was doing three critical jobs outside his own (and I could manage his schedule to take leave to be with his dad), and send the DNIF guy to the AOC...makes sense right...not to the "E-9s" at AFPC. I got a few days of push back and finally called the head E-9 functional to explain the situation and ask for some common sense. His reply..."Sirrrrrr, the Air Force Enlisted Assignment process is far to big for you to take a personal interest in someone." I lost it...Why the FUCK am I a Commander if I can't take an interest in my people! I elevated it all the way through the Wing/CC and I LOST. We are broken...LEAVE while you can.

Start by looking at who you're competing with for talent. Civilian employers, airlines, AFRC, ANG. How does your pay and QoL/work rules compare? - Hard pay (salary) - Soft pay (per diem, hotels, health care, opportunity to work more/less for more/less pay, 401k/pension, Space A/deadheading options, education, etc). AD is better at this in some areas (pension/TRICARE until that goes away...) and worse in others (military lodging is mostly awful, compare travel on AD on a non-flying TDY vs FedEx deviating in international first/biz class, the disaster that is DTS and the JTR, etc) - Total time away from home - When away from home for work, where is that location? A nice place, an average place, or a shithole? - Control over career progression and living location - Crew rest, FAR 117 requirements, crew duty days, etc - Leave/vacation - Additional duties- how much work are you expected to do outside of your primary duty? Do you do everyone else's jobs for them? Do you take your work home with you? Does your employer pretend that all of its employees are equal? Just a few things that came to mind, there are plenty more to add. It's going to be incredibly painful for the AF to acknowledge that it's severely lacking in QoL and work rules with respect to pilot retention. Throwing more money at the problem can indeed fix it, but it's going to take a hell of a lot more money than has been floated so far.

I've sat in on a brief with those guys when they literally said, "We briefed the A-10s across the street yesterday, but between then and now all of this has changed." If you are looking for a long term plan, you're going to be mighty disappointed.

Bone is probably better at air to air as well

If you're considering the Mudhen, you should really look into a Bone. Bigger payload, longer ranger, and same maneuverability: )

I'd rather have frosted tip gelled hair forced upon me by a bunch of Eagle (F-15C) gaybros than listen to a nav mouthbreathe and ask me to fly every 69 seconds. Single seat all the way, even if it means being a homo Eagle driver. To clarify: I fly the Viper. The math is easy: take the number of ejection seats in your jet, multiplied by the number of engines, and multiply that product by the number of vertical stabs. Anything more than 1 and you're a homo. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums