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This reminds me of last time we deployed. We took a 777 contracted rotator out to the desert. All of us were waiting for hours of course in the pax terminal. There was this sadistic Lt Col who was the deployment office chief. She shrieked at us every 15 minutes about her arbitrary Nazi rules of when we could use the bathroom and get water, over the course of 3-4 hours. I’m not exaggerating when I say this lady’s yelling voice would make that Frau chick on Austin Powers cringe. Finally, it was time to board. She said she’d board us by rank. Lt Cols first, then Majors. Us Captains figured we were next so we got ready. Then a twist. Airmen next. Then NCOs. Then SNCOs. Ok, whatever lady, just let us on the damn plane so we can go to our desert paradise already. Nope. Lts next. Now it’s just the Captains. When it’s just us and her, she gives us her SJW speech. She says we are the group that typically comes first in the AF, so she boarded the plane to take care of the ranks that are typically not taken care of. She said we should be happy to board last and take the worst seats. After being locked in a warehouse for 4 hours needlessly, none of us were really in a mood for a lecture, but whatever. We finally board the buses to the plane. When we walk on the plane, the flight attendants point us towards first class. The contract airline has a policy of filling the plane back to front. So us entitied Captains all rode first class the whole way to the desert. Best case of instant justice I’ve seen. Though I’ve always regretted not taking a picture of all us Captains in first class and sending it to her with a thank you card.

Get on the Link. Great work, though.

I like the fact that the people running the club put the movable placard in a spot that is already occupied in an ultimate blue falcon. Also, kudos to the youn airman for pulling off the fadeaway buzzer beater of “uhhh...we were drunk and didn’t want to drive last night!”

God what a stupid system we toil in

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/b-52-bomber-assists-in-search-of-missing-canoe-off-guam/

For my 1 BPZ board to O-5, the O-6 for my MAJCOM directorate found out I was "providing well-formatted inputs" into my PRF. My div chief got chewed out. So, lesson learned. For my IPZ board, I merely provided my signed 1 BPZ PRF to my Sq/CC. He probably added a few things and passed up to the group. I didn't see it until it came back signed from the Wg/CC (not personally...hand delivered from the Exec) significantly watered down from my 1 BPZ. Lo and behold, I was passed over. 1 APZ: moved on to a joint job. Took my 1 BPZ PRF, updated with some accomplishments from the past two OPRs, made a few adjustments and spoon fed to my Army supervisor. It made it up the chain nearly unmolested. No DP, but got picked up anyway (also wrote a letter to the board, but that is another story). Going forward, If I'm ever in the position to have input into a subordinate's PRF, I, 1) do not intend to make them do their own, and 2), will not do it myself without giving them a heads up on what I'm putting down. My lesson learned: write your own stuff. Make rank. Fix it when you get there. But, maybe I'm a bad person.

A few years ago, I was TDY to Holloman. The wg/cc spot at the commissary had a maternity parking sign covering the wg/cc sign. Personally observed the wg/cc park in the back and walk. Much respect.

It was refreshing, I have high hopes but thankfully I've been let down so often that I am well prepared for failure =D. Old SQ/CC simply didn't understand his squadron here, and the UPT bases are way out of alignment. It was regularly announced that the other bases had no restrictions and that somehow we should be thankful for their benevolent leadership because we actually had some common sense restrictions. The UPT SQ/s are jacked up either to scared to piss off mommy/daddy OG/Wing/AETC or are too worried about follow on assignments. I say show a pair and get fired. god knows I've been trying... unfortunately doesn't work at my level.

I'm just disappointed the "Any 2Lt" spot went away at most bases

I’m not sure why we don’t just erase all the reserved spots and just let the O-6s park curbside by the front door.

Bingo, this type of issue is why people are leaving. Every promotion board, now assignments? I worked a drug-deal assignment swap from the summer cycle match and neither of us have received a notification. The assignment I’m taking had training scheduled for 10 Jul. Talked to the registrar on Thursday and his name is still attached.

The fact that the Wg/CC actually hunted the Airmen down shows me where his priorities are. While I'm glad he didn't punish him, it's still bs, park somewhere else, you have two legs that work just fine.

When bananas are outlawed, only outlaws will have bananas.

No worries. Just never seen this type of attitude before from someone. Sure, I could have taught a PRF class, but in March we were told no PRFs for these folks. And I provided everyone with a good example template. I know some of our old heads here thinks a person shouldn't write their own PRF. I don't mind writing it for someone and I'm not Mike's supervisor. Just a Wing Snacko..lol

And this is why the cycle never breaks. I have received "writing mentorship" exactly once in 12 years as to why what I put on a draft OPR was changed. Outside of that, changes were made with no explanation as to why. How can a supervisor know if they're missing anything? How about one of the mandatory counseling/performance feedback sessions everyone marks as doing that never really gets done? Or reviewing a draft with the ratee before sending it up the chain to make sure nothing got missed? I will grudgingly write my own reports, but when you step back and think about it, it's absolutely ridiculous, and we just do it because that's how it's always been.

What's the big deal???

Fine then... post Mike’s PRF. I’m seriously going to need to plagiarize it. Joking aside, I’m sorry I misunderstood your post. If a guy doesn’t want to do it then no one should make him do it. If it’s half-assed he has no one to blame but himself. As a supervisor you need to make that clear to Mike. This isn’t a new game where the ratee writes his own OPR/PRF/RIF paperwork.

Pixel 2XL owner since launch. Love every aspect of the phone and I do not need a screen protector either. Love the automatic spam function from Google. Automatically blocks known spam callers or turns the entire screen red if it suspects a call as spam. My phone is synced to my Google home mini, 75 inch Sony tv running Android, and I plan on purchasing a Pixelbook 2 if launched this year. Nothing like walking into your house and telling your Google home mini to play a movie or song automatically on my tv. Don't even get me started on Google Duplex. Phone can call and set up appointments for you and the recipient of the call can't tell whether it's a human or your Google Assistant calling.

Not sure what your asking exactly, but the stand down was primarily to respond to questions on one of the more recent UPE incidences. The brand new CC was made aware of the concern and did the smart thing by standing us down to talk in detail about every thing that had occurred and is going on with the investigation. While there is still a good deal of concern about the system the primary issue was communication about these events both locally and throughout T-6 nation is fairly horrible, and so rumor mill was rampant. While I have my concerns I am glad I am not at a UPT base flying with guys and gals who literally would be unable to land and recover the aircraft safely in the event I was degraded due to UPE. We currently have local restrictions for operations both wx and dual crew requirements. It blows my mind the UPT bases to my knowledge do not have any such thing, their IPs are in a far less enviable position to make any kind of "stance" versus a bunch of soon to be retired / separated IP's that are transitioning to Airlines. However for specifics talk to your safety guy, they can give you the privileged scoop.

Following up to Marty's post about using 1st year pay for pilot new hires. I can't stress enough how important it is to choose a lender, whether it is me with at NBKC Bank or someone on Marty's team, that understands how pilots are paid. I weekly get calls from customers who are frantically trying to get approved with other lenders who don't understand how to calculate their income....Typical issues with other lenders include: Yes, Pilots are full time even if they don't work 40 hours a week (that's one of my "favorites" and you would be surprised how many times this is an issue with underwriters who don't have a clue about how commercial pilots are paid)... Try explaining to a "newbie" underwriter how to calculate commercial pilot income when coming off full time active duty ANG or Reserve orders. That is probably the most common issue I see from pilots coming to me from other lenders. Yes, there are ways to justify using 1st year pay vice training pay and 2nd year pay when approaching the end of your 1st year hire date, but you need an underwriter and team that has the experience to smoothly calculate your income and eventual closing on your loan!

Exactly. How many ops units are having to run more grade books than the school house? I know mine does. The AF is transferring BASIC aircrew training to the ops units, and still lying to itself that the products are going to be the same. Eventually, this will get people killed. We are already seeing an increased normalization of high fatigue, all-inexperienced aircrews, and guidance to "maximize training" (often during operational sorties)...and the new aircrew with even fewer hours are just starting to arrive, and its going to get even worse. I used to have a fair number of flights where I could do proficiency and skill development with people. Now, I spend the vast majority of time on operational sorties or just trying to do enough to log the currency requirements (sometimes at the same time). We are going to get more inexperienced crews and more so-called "experienced" crews that have fewer and rustier skills (even if their beans look good).

At least our functional was honest... looking for 365 volunteers said "list your top 5 follow on choices and we'll try to get you one of them"... would work as long as options 1-5 are Dyess.

Not really viable for KC-135/C-17. That FTU is at one of most remote stateside bases and pilots tend to 7 day op or leave at first opportunity if assigned there.

Both syllabus changes were accomplished for the sole reason of reducing timeline. The claim is using the timeline crunch to make "improvements" to training is just leadership continuing to lie to themselves so that when they retire and transition to airlines they can still sleep at night. If these changes were legitimate we would have had at a minimum several control groups and a study case or two of classes before we whole sale threw out the old syllabus in its entirety for this new abomination. For what its worth the PIT change is far less dangerous, so at least our instructors will continue to stink at roughly the same level. The UPT syllabus is an abomination however, and I think we will see people die as a direct result in the next 5-10 years. The problem is by then they wont be able to identify the root cause, and our instructor force will drop in quality as those guys show up to an already reduced PIT training syllabus.

I would say mandatory enrollment is because there are service members that are more concerned about their career and specific assignments then enduring quality care for their dependents.

So if I believe our tax code is broke then I can intentionally not adhere to it (i.e. not pay my taxes) and progressives will support me in doing so? Haha--fat chance... Progressives want illegal immigration for future votes because they know that historical data clearly shows that immigrants (once they are given amnesty/apply for citizenship) and their children are much more likely to vote for politicians that support an increase of social programs. Plenty of research which discusses this in detail--let me know if you need the links. Businesses obviously support illegal immigration because of the cheap labor...something the traditional GOP always supported until the issue was made to the lower/middle class Americans.

Don't know about SOS, I received credits for ACSC. Pleasr don't let anyone dissuade you from pursuing a Masters, it's your own choice. Just because the Air Force policy is masking AAD today; It can absolutely change when someone else takes over. Enjoy the BlackBoard ;)