Leaderboard

A pointless measure. All this does is validate what we already know. PRF's are an inaccurate means of identifying real leadership potential. This measure simply promotes the self-licking ice cream cone that is our USAF promotion system. You can literally do F*@#& all for 12 years, take an exec/aide gig working for a general and end up on top of the pack. Side note: Word on the street said mock boards that were conducted using an officer's record without a PRF yielded drastically different results than mock boards conducted using 2 line/9 line PRFs respectively. Hmmm...

Posted to the MAF Assignments & Mentoring FB page. 2-line PRFs are official for all boards covering after 16 Sep 19.

If you enjoy watching other people talk about their planes from your €400 a night hotel room on a bed of per diem, the 709th at Dover is hurting for good dudes to fly the C-5. It’s all glass, modern (by Air Force standards) avionics, flys like a dream (I’m not making that up. It was nicer to hand fly than my current ride, the T-6.), and you have a flight engineer. Any pilot who hates on engineers must have had bad engineers, because all the ones I flew with had been working the C-5 for decades and were a huge source of knowledge anytime the plane shit the bed, which it does. It’s nice being able to just fly the airplane while someone else competent and qualified dealt with why the gear didn’t come down. Bottom line, it’s not tactical at all and is about as close to airline flying as the Air Force gets, but if that appeals to you, you enjoy a large flying crew, and you want to fly a celebrity everywhere and host mini air shows at every ramp you park on, do it!

I'm still in shock. I just got a call for an interview at the 177th ANG F-16 squadron in NJ. Good luck to everyone else who applied.

She isn’t worth it.

Can I submit it in crayon?

Glad they both got out ok. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I think it’ll be community specific and based off manning. If you want to fly and there is a shortage in your community/ at your base, just be honest about your flying/career goals. Generally the price for promotion is to give up flying. Vice versa, flying a lot will hurt your long term promotion viability. In the Fighter world currently, a non-HPO O-5 can fly as much as a Capt if they want to and stay proficient in squadron needs because we are undermanned. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Don’t undersell yourself- you’d be most valuable not flying on a 365 to AUAB.

It 100% is AFE equipment, it's just some AFE shops don't care. From what I've heard (at least for the 56/P) painting the helmet prevents them from inspecting it for cracks , soft spots, and delaminations since the paint and clear coat could mask it. Also they don't want to be liable if they damage your $ 200 paint job replacing the visor cover.

Current 11F...good luck. You’ll need to wait til you can go guard/reserve. There’s gotta be a chick involved to do something like this so you should just volunteer for UPT and have her try to get the same base. Enjoy Laughlin. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

C-17s, did the airdrop mission as well. Bear in mind my experience was AD at a superbase; the guard/AFRC is different and probably much better. Pros: see a lot of cool places, NVG LLs, assault landings, air refueling, airdrop was (mostly) fun, made good TDY money/tax frees Cons: local sorties sucked balls, the ever existing threat of a Q3 (especially in airdrop), lots of trips to the same (crappy/sandy) locations, long duty days were exhausting (although I’ve heard a rumor that they don’t fly as many augmented crew duty days since I’ve left, which would be nice) There’s a lot more I could get into on each of these subjects, but don’t have the time to type it all up right now.

**not a -17 pilot** your experience will vary based on whether or not your base/squadron flies airland or airdrop

I’m a career 135 guy who will (eventually) transition to the 46. FWIW, love “the tanker”, the mission, and all the places it’s taken me...but I’d give my left nut to fly tac LL in the Herc. That being said, it’s nice to have tons of ANG and decent basing options, go to nice locations, and cruise at M0.83

This spells it out pretty well how to keep a logbook https://www.aviationbull.com/2015/oct/19/military-pilot-logbook-conversion

Funny story that wasn't funny at the time. We were flying the mighty whistlin shithouse (AC-130H) out of Guam practicing for the Iran hostage rescue. Our live fire range was basically a big rock sticking up out of the water somewhere near Guam. We were shooting our regular 20mm HEI rounds down at 2500ft. Bomb dump says they have a "shitload" of tracers they need to get rid of and ask if we can shoot it. We said sure, link it up, a mixture of tracer and HEI. So we are over this rock at 2500ft and the pilot lets loose with the first burst of the tweak, immediately followed by "CEASE FIRE, CEASE FIRE!!!!. Tracers were ricocheting back toward the airplane, some of them went past us.