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Probably unpopular opinion here, but here goes. In a typical UPT class there are the top sticks who are easily identifiable, the anchors or the class who again are easily identifiable by everyone (and they know who they are), and then there is the center of Mass (around 75-80%). These middle of the bell curve guys could end up flying fighters or end up in an AWACS or Tanker or whatever else. Having been a flight commander at UPT, it's tough watching those middle guys go up on assignment night knowing their dreams are about to be crushed and they have no idea. I wish we would be more transparent about the MASS and make it public. Post the list maybe once a week and definitely let the studs know before assignment night. If they know they are 15/20 (ENJJPT) then they know it may go either way. But #18 knows it's gonna take a miracle. Less heartbreak in public in front of 300+ people and strangers. Always thought it was ironic back in 09-11 when we dropped guys Preds and told them to act professionally while crushing them in public with no foreknowledge. Some may disagree, but coming from a class with a ton of Preds, it hurt to watch guys get blindsided like that. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chances of an incident if you do it at the end of the week. Edit: attempt at posting pic of the Bobs fail Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

It wouldn't be so painful if it wasn't in all caps. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=irregardless&amp=true&defid=1408380 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Which of the four who doesn't know jack $hit about the F-16 wrote the article on the Thunderbird mishap?

You could also do it the way my SQ/CC handled our assignments back in the B Course: "Here's the assignments. You guys are grown men, figure out a fair way to pick who goes where. If I hear any arguing, you're all going to Korea." Good to be a Guard guy. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

So why not spin off space AND cyber into a thing? Staying at this public knowledge level, it would be akin to carnivores and herbivores in the air-breathing forces. Both rely on each other. Naturally, we can count on Big Gray and Big Green to give up their toys and people just like they did when the Air Service became the Air Corps which became the Army Air Forces which became Big Blue. Nothing in the history books about that. Or, if this happens, does the inevitable bloat and expanding staff mean it will eventually get its own seat on JCS? Obviously, a bigger committee makes for better, faster decisions. Or what about downgrading STRATCOM to a "nuclear corps?" (Pun intended...). Aside from a few other junk drawer missions that son of SAC has - EW - why is it a full-on combatant commander? The numbers assigned are small, the mission very specialized. Hey, if we're gonna reorganize, let's go the full monty. Must go lie down now...

When all the existing services can pass an audit, then maybe we can talk about adding another one....

Same functional. Best in the USAF. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

I've always thought drop night would be more fun if they just put the list of planes for that class up on a board and call the studs up in rank order. #1 gets first pick, etc... Yes, someone will be last and their plane will be the only one left, and that's OK.

There is a mandatory 6 month wait between surgery and your IFC I/MFS. It used to be 12 months, but that changed several years ago. However, that is probably why you are getting two different answers. I have no idea how MEPS works into the equation.

With how many non-combat deployments (TSP, etc) there have been in the last 15 years, I'm actually surprised there aren't more senior guys with no combat experience. Maybe other types of air frames are different, but for fighters you are at the mercy of your squadron's tasking. With the possible exception of one or two random attached guys who may be given the option, you're either going or not going and it makes no difference if you want to go or not. I personally have known multiple fighter guys who as majors and lt cols had 1000+ hrs and zero combat time just due to timing and bad luck. I also have known capts with more combat time than non-combat time and they were well over the 1000 hr mark. Timing is everything and there is no justice.

Most SRs have the list 7-10 days before the public release. It takes time to make (or up) the non-select notifications.

I think he fell victim to the libtard, brain rot of a liberal institution of higher learning.

Irregardless (Siri auto-completed, btw), if the word gets used enough, it will gain normalcy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normalcy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Tony Carr sold out as of late, clearly. His website is proof, but we've covered this ad nauseam. It's all about money and hits, so he doesn't care if it falls on deaf ears. I've been privy to know the inside facts of two of his stories and he just lobs mud on a wall trying to see what sticks. IRREGARDLESS, can we get back to sport bitching about how weak the nonners have been lately, continuing to close finance/Comm/fss early for training on thursday's instead of talking about Tony Carr? Unless Tony has an article about the keyboard warriors in those units... I'd enjoy another Nobel Prize worthy piece of investigative journalism from the man himself then. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yes, without question. No need for a suit and tie.

This is brilliant and so very true.

Very rare in the MAF. Most O-6 and above are senior officer qualified. Means they did a two week sim course, are airland only, and are required to fly with an IP. Hell, a significant number of squadron commanders I've had, while being "IPs" on paper, rarely fly without a seeing eye. I've had one, maybe two, that I'd no-shit want to fly with when the chips are down.

Randolph nav school class 09-02 did it this way. Our flt/cc even told us the final class rankings (and all the numbers behind it) and the drop list earlier in the day before the actual drop night so people knew exactly where they stood, why, and what was likely based on knowing the other studs in the class. Everyone was also still afforded the right to change his/her mind until the moment of deciding on stage. It worked great because folks adjusted their desires appropriate to their class rank somewhat vs getting blindsided, and it was a very good drop anyways. Win-win. I never understood the secrecy and having leadership picking for the stud in the vast majority of cases. The planes are what they are, the studs rank as they do, let freedom take its course on drop night.

Your rate is untouchable right now and I wouldn't recommend you change a thing. Anyone with a 3.5% or lower is in a great position. A lot of time my job is to recommend to people not to do a refi because I know it's not good for them in the long run. Sorry I don't have more to offer, but this is the ethical answer. Never hurts to ask though. Marty Quick edit: Only thing I would add is that a refi could be beneficial in a situation like yours if you have a lot of equity and could use it to pay off bad debt (credit cards, bad student loans, medical collections, high car payments, etc). Mortgage interest is a tax deduction where other debts are not and interest rates are obviously significantly lower. Additionally mortgage debt is looked upon more favorably with credit agencies. I'm not recommending you to refi for this reason, just using this as an opportunity to providing some education on why someone might refi in order to save in other areas. I've even had people refi to pay for a child's college and wedding. VA cash-out refi's can go up to 100% of the home's value and the funding fee is waived if you have a 10% or greater disability.

That guy went to Harvard? Seriously? With some of the arguments I've seen from him, that's pretty surprising.

That's how my drop was. Except we also had the other bases on a conference call. Order of bases rotated each drop. #1 from Vance would get up and pick e.g. I'll take line 5, F-15C to Tyndall," then someone at each location would cross that line off the transparency with a marker (list was displayed on an over-cranium projector. Then #1 from CBM would go, etc. Until the last guy at the last base got what was left Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's how the AF did it back when Corpus was still open. Very fair imo.

Watching the implosion of CNN sure is amusing. Talk about an utter lack of self-awareness on their part.

Same reason AFPC dropped one fighter per class, couldn't figure out B-course slots and 5 years later we have a fighter pilot shortage : gross incompetence

Simmer down now fellas. Seems like once a month everyone gets all keyboard warrior and starts measuring manhood. There are positives in most communities, no one has the market cornered for coolest job in the Air Force and UPT studs don't know what they want. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Maybe he really wanted to be a part of the, um, "community of men" in the C-model in the days before the repeal of DADT?

I remember being at my first drop at ENJJPT 10 years ago as a bright eyed casual awaiting pilot training and watching a grown man cry in stage because he really wanted to fly C models and got a Viper. Fast forward 6 months later and half the class was getting predators. It's all about perspective.

Here in Texas, a medal license plate to include the air medal, will get you free parking at the terminal so you don't have to park in the employee lot and wait to ride the bus with the cast of thousands.