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No, we actually didn’t. One of our guys killed a dude on his own. “We” didn’t have “our guys” do jack shit. Please, for the love of God, don’t ever be a commander of anything. I cannot stand narcissistic leadership that convinces itself that it must solve all problems with asinine micromanagement and mass punishment. Your mentality of “having to do something” causes one to make irrational and emotional decisions that do much more harm than good. Real leaders are much more thoughtful and intelligent than this. This type of leadership has much more to do with the pilot retention crisis than any other single factor. Incidents like these happen when you have 100k people in your organization. You don’t punish the 99.999% when 0.001% screw up. Unless you’re a dumbass. Then go right ahead, this Lt Gen will probably just secured his fourth star for this brave stand.

Passive aggressive and blown out of proportion. Nice touch.

Start by reading the JTR.

Punish the guilty? Charge him with murder; prosecute to max extent allowed by law. Lock him up and throw away the key. Done.

The best reaction is often the most unacceptable... don't do or change a damned thing.

Oh, well if your after F-15s only the rules are slightly different. Make sure you bring something special for the crew chiefs and tell your current boyfriend not to get too jealous.

the navy should worry about not running their ships aground and into other shipping traffic instead of getting beta-cucked by a cock in the sky

You are missing something. You’re missing a great opportunity to hold at convenient points, crossing midnight 99 times per leg and making yourself entitled to 99x Guam per diem... as long as we’re making up rules.

Aero App sucks...and NGA wonders why ForeFlight is far and away their number one app on the NGA app store. DOD just needs to pay ForeFlight to make a Mil version of their app and put in all the features we want.

Disclosure up front... I'm a huge Jepp fan. I've played with all of the apps and I have to say the functionality of the Jepp platform is so much more powerful than either. Jepp doesn't stitch .pdf charts. Theirs are seamlessly digitally created on the screen out of the raw data. That's why their charts customize what they show as you zoom in/out and update themselves based on NOTAMs and give you pop-up notes that comes from AP/GP/etc. Their new airfield diagrams actually show areas that are NOTAMed closed...f-ing cool when you're at a busy unfamiliar place. And, Jepp can tie together their other apps/products together so they talk to each other...TOLD performance data, mission info, insert your own charts/info, build your own routes, etc. Damn cool stuff that let's us use the EFB for more than an e-reader! BTW, I heard that Jepp and ForeFlight are coming out with a merged app that blends the best of their platforms and Jepp's global data. That ends the debate. But the chances the big boys will ever let that capability get into the cockpit...

Funny... they just took Jepp Pro off our iPads. We were never told we could use It. I had a No-Notice from AFRC and they had told us other units had purchased the Stratus receivers. We asked and they had no details but they said they loved how they were using it. My question is if anyone has had a unit purchase... how many did you buy? Was it for a mission kits or for each A/C and or Crewmember? It'd be nice to step into the next level of technology and out of the dark ages.

The NGA is kind of “special.”

Throwing your people and their families under the bus as a symbolic genuflection/trying to save face with the Japanese doesn’t solve the square root of fuck-all. Do some math. We’ve got 100k people and their families over there. Statistically, we are outperforming our national demographic in terms of crime and accidental death. Whe that’s not the public reply that should be given to our hosts, this is NOT leadership, it’s reactive CYA chickenshit.

Spoken like a true AF leader, trying to rationalize poor leadership exercsed in pursuit of how things look.

Its a great time here. Lemme tell ya

Imagine the CEO of Southwest Air Lines telling all 55,000 employees nation-wide that they, or their family members, can’t drink or buy alcohol. Just for perspective. Absolutely asinine. We’ve devolved from leadership to management...and now we can only muster “really shitty management.” FML. Where’s the exit? This incident involved .001% of the military people and dependents on Japan. So let’s punish everyone.

This should help pilot retention....good call.

Yeah, but 89 of those days were spent arguing about the difference between an aileron roll and a barrel roll.

Just to stir the discussion: Sukhoi Su-80 with a proposed (not sure if actually fielded Su-80PT (patrol/transport) ) variant for the Russian/Kazakhstan Border Guards and a few others, looks like it would be ideal with some mods for COIN / LIC: References for the PT variants (caveat emptor) but some data on how the FSU have thought this capability (or one closely related to it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-80 https://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/civil/su-80/ https://testpilot.ru/russia/sukhoi/s/80/pt/s80pt_e.htm https://cosmopark.ru/s80.html

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Unconfirmed word is that it was the skipper: CDR “Tess” Stickles.

They must be overmanned to afford to kick out a pilot/wso for that stunt. The military can’t correctly sentence a deserter during wartime or properly report felony convictions which leads to the murders of innocents, but we sure as fvck can fry a couple of aviators for playing a joke.

It's all fun and games until we make you drink it.