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Majors board update. I got to talk to the Promotions people at AFPC and she confirmed my suspicions. The AF didn’t realize what a huge undertaking it would be at the SAF level when they got rid of PRFs. They have spent the last 2 months combing through thousands of ROPs for the people selected for promotion looking for negative quality indicators. It was taking so long to do this, that they had to send up the attached O-5 BSC board to the SecDef otherwise they would have run out of the previous year selectees to promote. She seemed to confirm that the rate was not a 100% selection rate, but that’s all I could get. Based off her comments I’m thinking we still have at least another month and a half before we get notified.

It made the media because it was in social media first, this wouldn’t of made the local news 20 years ago. There are bigger things to worry about. If you’re worried about quibbing like this, then I hope you’re correcting every Enlisted person who doesn’t salute and every Officer who goes out of their way to dodge one.

Sanctimonious bull. It’s a shame how quick some members of the military pass judgement on others when they know no more “facts” than what they glean from a video posted on social fvcking media.

Fuck off already.

Don’t they use this same process for Captains every year? Shouldn’t they know exactly how much work goes into it?

Did they not talk to anyone in SAF before they decided on 100% promotion opportunity? Never mind.....why am I not surprised?

Take me flying when it is done!

At the amount we buy fighters 6th gen will only be 15-20 jets but the program will be in the trillions.

Get a DD368 from your losing mpf. Initiate 1288. Do a form 24. Process takes about 2 months.

As much money as that looks like, it’s way less than training their replacements.

You chinook guys and your necro posts.

Don’t forget to subtract 10% for the military discount.

Just read this article that articulates my feelings pretty well - there are a lot of legitimate issues veterans and service members should be upset about. This re-enlistment isn't one of them.

Just took 20 seconds and looked up your post history, and determined that was a lie. You even changed your name

My dad was a pilot but my Mom thought we would butt heads if he taught me to fly so she arranged for a close family friend who was a senior Pilot at Delta to be my first instructor. The guy was a legend who did many incredible things in his life and wrote books about his adventures )sailed a six foot boat across the Atlantic by himself.) I really looked up to him until the day after I soloed. I was in his hangar on his private flying ranch when he pulled me aside and said "you needed to get that military flying thing out of my system and get a real job." He went as far as to show me his paystub which was incomprehensible money to a kid in 1986. I was kind of taken aback, when I looked around the guy had several planes, cars motorcycle and boats, he obviously had a lot of money but he did not value military service. Oddly I ran into his years later when my hometown made a big deal about getting some medals in Afghanistan, he was all smiles and handshakes, "you done good kid!" I never looked at him the same. As for Huggy, how about as a dedicated American who served his country he also taught his children about service, sacrifice, and something more than the almighty dollar. As a senior officer I routinely met with folks who decided to get out. I never required a meeting if someone dropped their papers, most of the meetings were requested by folks I had mentored and decided to get out or through chance interactions. My first statement was ALWAYS "thank you for your service, what can I do to help with your next chapter." As Huggy noted, giving any period of your life to military service buys my everlasting gratitude, you have done more than 99% of the population and I am honored to shake your hand if it was 2 years or 28. In my humble opinion, Huggy is a fucking hero and though we are not close friends, I dare say his family has done just fine, in spite of his 28 years of service.

Just stayed at https://www.militarycrashpad.com and had an awesome time! They provided a clean and HUGE house. They had a pool table, theater room, an in-home chef, and they even gave me free credits for Lyft. I came alone but I met some cool dudes and left with some new friends. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! One last tidbit, they only charge $60/night so you don't pay a penny out of pocket...not too shabby.