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A little grammatical correction yields the truth: “Mission first, people! Always!”

Super excited for my team to win this! They work so hard and deserve all the credit!

Mission first, people always...

Holy shit. LOA club checking in: do you guys have an exclamation point after 'you are hereby admonished'? Always thought that was rather comical.

Now shots have been fired!

That’s what ADOs are for.

Says the Nav who supports even more stricter gun control laws--welcome to that big government that you love so much!

BFM quit your Root Cause analysis, the glare of truth data is far to bright for our eyes to handle and I rather just annoyingly point at something else that annoys me but has not bearing on any thing. Plus if my SQ/CC isn't constantly going from one useless meeting to another what exactly will he be doing? Communicating the issues to his squadron? Taking care of his people? Acting like a filter and buffer to all the bull$hit direct line of sight tasking from the Group level on up? Crazy talk.

"Buffs - What can't they do?" Let's see: Push on time Not die in every Red Flag vul Turn around in less than 5 miles Have SA on air threats Have SA.

When bananas are outlawed, only outlaws will have bananas.

What's the big deal???

The intent is that they’ll make up for the lost training at the FTUs. Can’t speak for the fighter side but on the MAF guys, the FTUs are running at max capacity and min manning. They will definitely not get their lost UPT training at the FTUs. Then they’ll show up to the units and be our problem. They will continue to be burdened with nonner duties because commanders can’t seem to follow CSAF guidance. They’ll waste time on being equipment custodian, security manager, Christmas party planner, unit piss test POC or whatever. They’ll have no one to set them straight and teach them how to be pilots because all of our experience is running for the airlines, if they aren’t shackled up at the wing exec or DS office. We are so f*c&ed.

Hard to keep track... numerous times. PBD-720 was the big attempt: it started retiring U-2 airframes in 2007 with the last jet gone in 2011. That got rolled to 2008... then 2009... then 2011... etc..

Devil, That is hysterical! The irony of the San Diego Air & Space Museum using Russian SU-25's, streaming the colors of the Russian flag, to wish everyone a happy American Independence Day. Winning!! (It is a great museum, if you haven't been).

Well, there are still ADOs. They're just mid level captains nowadays. Plus the SQ execs are Lts, so no need to study the jet or tactics.

Comey/McCabe/Strzyck (sp?), et al tarnished the reputation of the FBI so it's no wonder folks, including me, are skeptical about their actions. DOJ ditto even under a Trump Administration who are, indeed, the ones who made this deal. One has to wonder why this guy, after having access to 40+ Democrat congresscritters' IT systems/accounts, possessed USG laptops in his home, etc, etc, etc, was granted such a sweetheart deal. Flynn gets lying to the FBI and this guy gets a loan application fraud deal? Hmmm....

What does that say at the top there?

My LOC and LOR both had them. Hard to keep a straight face reading it

No more ADOs in the CAF. I’m at a certain PACAF fighter base where every FGO in the OG is either a DO or CC, and we are sub-80% manned.

Our leadership, both Congressional and AF. For example, In our latest T-6 PIT safety day, we were told by the OG/CC that leadership understands that there is a realistic chance that by continuing to fly the T-6 with the current rate of UPEs, there will be eventually be class A mishaps and fatalities. However, the AF is also bleeding pilots and has decided to grow their way out of the pilot manning crisis, meaning increasing pilot production. So they have conducted their strategic risk assessment and have chosen to accept the risk of flying bad jets so we can churn out pilots. They are willing to accept some smoking holes in the ground, rather than stand down the whole fleet for a few months and lose a few hundred pilots.

Oiy. And this is why, @Danger41, I suggest eliminating all but lawfully required (handicap) designated parking. If the WG/CC isn't being "shown respect" there are bigger issues, throwing rose petals before his feet isn't the solution. If the number of times per day that a SQ/CC has to go out to their car in order to chase down queep is driving the proximity of their parking spot, the proximity of the parking spot is not the root cause of the DFP.

Interesting; on the 130 side talking to my bros they are each flying 3 times a week. The sim is running weekend sims.

Buffs, without ailerons they spoil everything.

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.

I agree. We need immigration reform, and bad. We should be striving to make it faster, easier, and cheaper for people who want to come here legally. Make the barriers to legal entry low enough, and the only people who will try to come here illegally will be the criminals...which makes it easier to police the borders.