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Ram, stop being a pussy. And go get me an Ensure... after you get off my lawn, you pussy.

Where are you and how do I go there? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Only if you are a giant pvssy. EDIT: I've been a BO member for 14 fvcking years and I can't say p*ssy? YGBSM. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Avg scores for selected SUPT applicants: AFOQT P: 94 N: 87 Apt: 63 V: 68 Q: 53 Hours: 89 PCSM: 87 GPA: 3.2 Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Naw, just come to gunships. Then you don't have to tell your kids you shoveled sh!t in Louisiana ate Doritos 12 hours a day during the great WW Syria . . . It's way more fun when you get to look out the window and watch the cannon fire killing ISIS scumbags. And some of us have 10x the missiles and bombs too!

Good stuff. See I feel like the guys that keep spouting that mantra ought to do a better job of shutting up and highlighting incidents like this. Probably the worst enemy of our continued evolution and reinvestment into the force is our own "we are invincible!" PR campaign. Even amongst our own commanders I can tell you a high population of the Army leadership simply doesn't even view air superiority as something we will ever go to war without much less a trend we should keep allocating research toward improving. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

higher concentration of FAIPs, obviously.

An RQ-4 has been dispatched to continue the search for survivors.

With as "critical" as this pilot shortage is you'd think the AF would be bending over backwards to avoid ANY perception of fcking pilots in bonus deals perception is reality and the AF is lacking in both departments.

I'm going to credit 145 hours in June working 16 days (away from home 9 nights). $155/hr. Actually flew like 70ish. Add 16% DC on top of that. You do the math... These bonus threads make me giggle.

If you're all about "the fight" then you should probably hang up the g-suit and roll to your nearest Reaper squadron. You're "in the fight" on almost every sortie. Heck you'd probably employ more weapons (against the enemy) doing that than you could ever imagine in a fighter. I still get to fly my 6 sorties/month in my Viper, as a part-timer. Although, it's quickly becoming not worth it. If they actually deployed us to go fight and not sit on our asses on TSP after TSP, I might agree with you. I wouldn't even mind the massive pay cut I take to go on orders. But the only fighting we seem to do anymore is fighting one self (USAF) inflicted road block after another just to get anything done.

Fly yourself to karate lessons? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who gets the ATIS?

Write a pretty darn good PRF based on their Navy records. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There 37 pilot selects...not sure how many applicants. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

So why aren't there more T-6 Class As?

Does this count? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/14/isis-drones-are-attacking-u-s-troops-and-disrupting-airstrikes-in-raqqa-officials-say/?utm_term=.5042b8070eee

Hilarious, isn't it? People who were going to stay anyway take the devil's money (at an insultingly cheap rate, still less than their counterparts in 1999) and then act surprised that the AF is screwing them on an extra 6-12 months of ADSC. That they were going to serve anyway, for free.

3 of 6 unsponsored guys were selected from what I saw.

Fuck.

Got a call this afternoon from my recuiter that the results were out and that I was selected! That's the only info he had, he said no dates until after I swear in.

AFRC 17-01 results are approved and released. They are on the AFRC A3R sharepoint and should be in the hands of recruiters and NAF/WG CCs. Congrats to those selected! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Geezus this is depressing to read. I'm on exchange where there is still porn in the walls, in briefs and trying to bang the enlisted chicks is highly encouraged. I showed my colleagues some of our USAF SARC stuff and they thought I was joking. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

ViperMan, you're obviously involved, because you're taking it personally. In either case, here's why you're wrong. This isn't people who signed one bonus, and expect another. They signed early, just to get the paperwork done. But other than the amount of money one gets by having their bonus start on time (as opposed to the usual lateness the Air Force demonstrates each year), early signers were doing the AF a favor. It doesn't matter what the contract says. Logic says that the people who HELPED there Air Force by signing early should be taken care of if the bonus goes up. But even more to the point, it's almost laughable that "leaders" who are now publicly begging for solutions to the problem they let fester can't see why this is such a perceived betrayal. It's like there is some sort of competition at the staff level to see how many tone deaf proclamations and policies they can put out. You say you're on your way out. Good. If the Air Force has any chance at all of pulling out of this dive, it's going to need leaders who can actually empathize with the people they claim to want to retain. I'm sure you felt your dissertation was nothing but solid logic and tough love from the top rope. To me it sounded like someone who is way too excited to tell us how stupid and greedy we are. Which, ironically, probably has way more effect on retention than the bonus you're defending. Sent from my Vitamix 450x Professional using Tapatalk

ViperMan, I'd suspect you're trying to spin the story from the Porch. Is it as big a mess as JQP makes it? No, probably not. But could it have been more transparent? Probably. I think the Facebook group is whining...but I also think people are tired of being kept in the dark all the time.

You're just so pissed that people don't want to be in the Air Force as much as you do, aren't you? Sent from my Vitamix 450x Professional using Tapatalk

That'll buff right out.

It's the least fulfilling job I've ever had in that respect. But at some point, you have to hang up the letterman jacket, put on your Jehovah's witness uniform, and work to live instead of living to work.

I like to be intellectually lazy and frame every problem in terms of race as well as decide that racism is the only possible root cause.

That was pretty funny. My favorite: " I get paid to make the hard decisions, and I owe it to our gender non conforming Airpersons to make sure everyone feels special." Haha, Airpersons.

https://article107news.com/real-reason-navy-not-air-force-got-first-air-air-kill-since-desert-storm/

ENTJ, and I also have a Vitamix. It makes good smoothies, but mine is an older model. I can't post to BODN with it.

I took the MBTI when I was in ROTC, and turns out I'm STFU.

My results included extreme charm, elite hand eye coordination, never before seen levels of charisma, slightly below average sensitivity (which is gay), and gifted love making skills. Did I pass?

These studies have already been done. In summary, fighter pilots score low on agreeableness. https://publicaccess.dtic.mil/psm/api/service/search/search?site=default_collection&q=pilot+mab# https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15892544

Excellent. Someone at LM leaned the ABC's... Keep closing multi-year sales and keep dropping that price, particularly for the A model. Still want other partners (sts) and just my two cents, but coaxing Germany & Poland into the club are the Glen Gary leads. That could be another 150+ aircraft and would give the Ruskies something to worry about.

Is she a predator? After your wife yells at your son for him hooking up with his teacher and it being nationally televised do you as a father do the following with your son? A. High five your son. B. Ask him how was his first time. C. Ask for his teachers number. D. Say, I'm the proudest father on the AFB base now. E. All of the above

What's more amazing is someone found a way to get something for free on a Ryanair flight.

This sort of thing happens in the U-2 quite often. Lots of folks want to join the "13 nautical mile high club".

Yup. In the AC-130H we had two 20MMs up front and they were loud, especially when you shot them both at once. One of the best things about the 20MM was all the gun gases swirling around in the plane. The crew entrance door on the H model was modified to hold a low-light TV sensor, an illuminator (only visible on NVGs), and a laser for rangefinding and designating targets. As a result it was open to the slipstream of the aircraft. The weapons troops always kept the 20MM barrels oiled up to fight off corrosion. When you fired the 20MMs the oil on the barrels would burn off and combine with the gun gases, then it would come ripping into the aircraft. Because of the airflow from the open crew entry door, the mixture would flow right up the stairs into the cockpit, bounce off the roof and curl down in between your face and the HUD...it was fucking awesome and one of the few things I miss about being in the AF.

Yawn...Just another night at work. For the record the only time I used tracer rounds was for training or a firepower demo and only in the 40MM. We used to use 105MM Willy Pete rounds for training which were developed as a marking and fire starting round.. I had one rupture shortly out of the tube on a day training line, now THAT was a tracer. If you want some real gunship action check out the video below, rocking the 25MM on the AC-130U starts at 00:45. The video title is misleading, actually a combination of several types of gunships shooting. If you check out 04:15 you will see the MK-44 30MM Chain Gun that is on the AC-130W and AC-130J. The new AC-130J actually has a 30MM, a 105MM, AGM-176 Griffin Missiles, GBU-39 SDB, AGM-114 Hellfire, and at some point in the future a variant of the HEL.

Ha. Ok. Whatever you say, buddy.

Yes. The mission wouldn't happen without the reservists. They just stood up a reserve operations group (726th) at Creech in order to support this. TR's just do the standard reserve schedule, but pretty much have carte blanche to go on orders for a few days-months at a time whenever they want to. This is a great option for people who have their own side business or just want a part time job where they can set their own schedule.

SERE should be required due to launch and recovery in country. RPA to UPT? Not so much.

I think everything is pretty accurate except these two. Typically one 126.9 day deployment per assignment cycle unless you volunteer for another. I've never seen leave be that much of a problem, either, even when manning was lower than it is now. Our squadron worked with everyone who made reasonable requests, which sometimes leads to flying those 2 R days a month, so one of your bros gets some time off work.

RIQ/RFC is at Randolph, but I digress, semantics. I don't know your personal situation, if you're coming from another AFSC or if you're brand new, so: Brand new accession: You will PCS to Randolph, and be expected to find an apartment or house off base. You will receive BAH for the San Antonio area, so yes family is welcome. Cross-training: You will be TDY to Randolph, so it is better to leave your family at your home station. You will be living in on-base lodging. At Holloman, you are TDY en route, so your family is kind of in limbo. You can either leave them in San Antonio (or your previous home station), or take them with you, but they will have to live in a hotel-size room with you on base unless you have a cat or dog and can secure a pet-friendly TLF. This is not much better, but it has a full kitchen and a separate living room from the bedroom. It's a pretty terrible situation for possibly four to five months if you get MQ-9's. I've seen some people forgo lodging on base and find a fully-furnished apartment off base, but I'm not too knowledgeable about that stuff in Alamogordo. There were plenty of people that sent their families ahead to their gaining base, but you run the risk of washing out of training at Holloman, and then being stuck with a home at a location you are no longer going to and having to go through the pains of convincing the military to repack your things after you've unloaded already. I strongly advise against sending family ahead. Though failing out seems like a remote chance, it's happened and can cause even more heartache and headache on top of having to get reclassed again.

Most important thing to understand: recruiters lie to make their quotas.

Thanks for your contribution to the thread. Bitter and useless

I'm here right now. Academic Scheule is busy at first but quickly falls off. Like Wraith said, get the gouge from the class ahead of you and your good to go. You are free to go as you please. Only real restriction was you have to be able to get back by car within 12 hours. I think some guys are stretching that one a little but so far no one seems to care. When you start "flying" it's pretty random. I've had weeks where I've had 5 events that week and I've had others where I've only been scheduled for one and it CANX'd. They are getting ready to start using v.3 of their syllabus so I don't have any real info on what is about to change. I know it's going to be geared as a basic course due to the 18X's instead ot the current TX course that it is right now. Internet in lodging has gotten better but it seems to very buidling to building. PM me if you have anything more specific.

I was there last year in August. It was really laid back overall. I think I had an event like every other day on average(first month every 3-4 days, and towards the end every day usually). Flights/sims were usually 4 hours(1hr brief, 2 hr flight, 1hr debrief). Make sure your SRO talkes to the class ahead of you for gouge, and you should be good to go for academics. A few hours(2-3) of studying every day was more than enough to do well. Plenty of extra time for gym/tan/lunch/nap action. We were free to come and go as we wanted as long as we showed up at brief time and/or for academics. The 2 SQ buildings your normally at and the gym are right next to lodging within walking distance. Our class played volleyball/basketball for like 2 hours every day, and alot of us chilled at the pool every day while casually studying. The internet in lodging sucks, and Walmart/Chile's/Applebees are the best places Alamogordo has to offer. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.