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"Hey baby, I could really go for a BJ right now." "Sure thing sweetie. But if I give you a BJ, you have to wash the dishes for the next 10 years." "No thanks." "You're always ranting about wanting a BJ but then you complain when I try to give you a BJ!"

Why the ADSC to 20 years? Big Blue has such a hard on for keeping guys to retirement. How about you open this up and make it a normal 3 year ADSC like most training/career type moves? What if guys want to try this out but don't want to be grasped by the balls for another 6-9 years? If you make it a 3 year ADSC, you may get some takers to stick their toe in the water to see how it feels. If they like it, they may stay to 20 on their own. If they don't, hey at least you got an experienced dude to fly the line for an extra 3 years. I imagine you'll have as many takers for this as you do the return to AD. It was a good idea on paper, but of course the AF has to come in and fuck it up.

Everyone rants about wanting a fly only track then complains when AMC gives them a fly only track.

Meanwhile I’m just sitting here waiting for my DD-214 to post... Au revoir boys!

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“Sir, I’m sorry your bombs/gas/cargo/recce took so long, but we are understaffed.” What a lame excuse. We’re still in the military and still subject to an unlimited liability clause.

The ADSC to 20 is a non-starter. Nobody has enough faith in the system to take this “deal” along with a 6-9 year commitment. F That Noise.

Banned... again. I can ban him faster than he can start them. It’s a war of attrition. Takes 15 mins to open an account here and 3 seconds for me to ban him. I just wished he would be more original and offer some new humor for you folks on here.

Tricare standard. Go where you want. When you want. No permission. No referrals. Just like champus for those of us that grew up with it. You pay 20%. $3k max out of pocket for the year for the family. A similar plan at delta is $700/month with $13k family max. Thats almost half a trip per month I dont Have to work for healthcare. Yes. 20 years is worth it.

You should give that speech to FSS too

As an outsider looking in, her resume doesn’t indicate she’ll take AMC in a more tactical/less queepy direction. Good luck gents.

Staff is prison and it would take a culture change at every level to fix.

I still don't see how a flying only track is a good idea. Imagine 'that guy' in the squadron that is always the pigeon and would rather work on his BS masters than study in the vault. He always has excuses as to why he didn't make RAP or why he was unavailable for mission planning yesterday. You really want him to be your commander in a few years? I totally get that guys just want to fly and I'm in that boat as well, but the guy who just wants to fly is also probably the guy that has the personality to take care of their bros and wants to be leading the formation when the shit hits the fan. That is the guy that should be set up to be the squadron commander. Rather than set up a fly-only track, which will remove guys like this from being commanders, we need to fix the glitch. Remove the BS AAD, SOS, ACSC, and things like that from consideration. Go back to the way the military has promoted since the Revolutionary War. Promote the guys who seem the be the most capable and chances are, they will be the most capable in their new job as well. Don't promote based on who has a shot at being the next chief of staff, promote based on who is the most likely to do the job best on the next level. Then, when that is finished, fix the staff gigs to turn them from a terrible deal into a good deal. Make them 18-24 month assignments in Hawaii where you work 9-3. People will say this is impossible, but I bet that so much of the staff has become a self-licking ice cream cone that if you removed some of the same BS where guys spend half their time filling out electronic staff summary sheets, you might find some time to let guys go hang out at the beach with their family when their kids get out of school every afternoon. Suddenly a year or two away from the jet might be a nice break instead of a prison term.

Yet another half-measure “solution “. This generation of leaders needs to realize that their instincts on what might get people to stay are all wrong. At least then they have a starting point on what not to do. If you’ve got stars on your lapel and you think you have a good idea about how to tackle the issue, just assume it’s between 90 and 180 out from the real answer. Then go ask a Major who’s actively flying the line at a Squadron. And resist the urge to either inject your own modifications to his ideas. Also resist the urge to inject staff weenie ideas into the solution.

This is how my old ass envisions this President Trump/Putin - Russia/USSR - ploy/crap going down:<) Credit for this post (repost) goes to Azimuth, he posted something similar back in March of 2014.

This all sounds great and you could bet your ass if we were allowed to run the show in the AOR like you portray, we'd be all over it, but in the grand scheme of things, we've been Kingpin/CAOC's puppet for the last almost two decades because some dude sitting in a building with 3 foot thick concrete walls and no windows thinks he knows how to run shit better than we do. The last time I did WTF I wanted was when I heard a pair of Vipers 10 min from bingo over the Med during OUP waiting for a French controller in a NATO AWACS to approve our transit to their area. By the time the controller got back to us with an approval, we had already .85'd it over there, got them on the boom and they were off to their targets shortly there after. Of course then there's the issue with what freq is everyone on? This is not the info that we need to be searching for in the jet. That info isn't going to be handed to us by the planners who are dealing with 40 sorties a day so it all goes back up to the top. Why do we need to be on the "right freq"? We're not allowed to run the show and do whatever we want when the AOR is run like an ARTCC. So we sit there and orbit and wait for our ARCT like we are expected to because ultimately, as mundane as that seems, that's the responsibility we've been given. Hey, we get paid the same either way. Maybe in a real conflict, things would be different, but this crackpipe fantasy that tanker dudes are going to cowboy it around the AOR because they thought they heard some shit go down on some JTAC freq and decided to "insert" themselves is bullshit. Getting fuel to the fight has been much more bureaucratic than you think it is.

I submit that if you don't have any game against threat systems, it's even more important for you to know the effective range so you can stay the hell out of the WEZ when the lowdown is passed..

But they do refuel everybody that allows U-28’s and MQ-9’s to have any hope of survival once on objective... The USAF’s ability to do its job is more dependent on the tanker force than any other asset.

Shack. If you're on a team but don't know or care how the rest of the team functions and what their strengths and weaknesses are, how you can help them, and how you can not hinder them, then you shouldn't be a part of the team. A dialed in tanker dude with the SA to listen in on the right frequency can anticipate how a fight, engagement, or event is going, and then coordinate and place his asset where it's needed before he's asked to do so, thereby empowering the receivers to focus on more important things. Quite frankly, the rest of the force doesn't care how well you're able to keep your airplane alive. We care about your ability to anticipate the need for your effect, and insert yourself appropriately so that the rest of the team can function better. I know that because I'm a herk dude. No one cares how well I defend my airplane against an SA-blah. They care that I know how and when to effectively integrate what I bring to the fight without placing undue burden on the rest of the team. Know how to carry your own weight and deliver your effect to the highest standard expected by your user. It is never someone else's job to figure out how you should be doing yours.

Weird. I thought that normally tracked you to Eagles...

I’m not exactly sure what you said there or what it means, but I’m all in.

You should just call or send an email and ask. Worst they can do is say no, better to hear it from them than out speculation though.

It’s incredible how much fuckery has gone into this uniform fiasco the last 10 years. It’s seriously not that hard.

It will be a sad day if we aren’t allowed to wear flight suits; and I get all the “more comfortable” talk. But I’m an Air Force aviator, I didn’t join the Army. I want my green pajamas!

#bringbackourblackboots

You don't have any chance and I hope for your own sake you didn't even apply and embarrass yourself.