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If I ever have to be the IO that writes a 150 page report on why some BGen extended her TDYs by a day to attend retirement ceremonies costing the Gov a whopping $690 per occurrence, I’m doing whatever I can to eject from the AF. The amount of effort that went into that exhaustive investigation boggles my mind. There are so many real tactical problems out there to be solved, and so many $billions wasted on bad acquisitions, and some poor guy devotes all his waking hours to this.

It's surprising to me that after a 25+ year career she didn't understand the potential issues with charging her hotel to a cadet's GTC....a cadet making 10% of what she makes per month, and who is subordinate to her command. Previous comment nailed it: these kind of travel anomalies exist everywhere, it's when you've pissed off too many people that the IG complaint lever is pulled and it all comes tumbling down.

The part where it was found that she had rented a full size vehicle in lieu of a compact vehicle was some top notch investigative work.

Agreed. Context: “spending another 25-100 million $$ per year for the next decade trying a dozen different ways to produce our way out of the problem.” I’m all for innovation, QOL improvements, and attacking this thing from multiple angles. It’s spending wads of money to try to widen the mouth of the pipeline when a fraction of that could double the bonus and stop the bleeding instantly that makes me hurt for the guys and gals on the line doing more and more with less and less. How much longer can we sustain take rates well below the 65% that we require to maintain a healthy force, when we’re way beyond unhealthy? I bet if we retained more seasoned pilots we could increase production at a fraction of the cost of some of these other experiments. I’m not disparaging PTN or UPT 2.5 or whatever... I’m talking about stuff like contract UPT, new UPT bases, diversity outreach etc. Stuff that might be good, but is not the solution we need right this minute and is costing $$$10s of millions of dollars. We have not yet gone to Congress begging and pleading. They must think things are pretty darn good now that we’ve leveled off. The big lie is that we can’t compete on compensation. No, not that improvements should not be happening with or without a crisis, but QOL is where we will never compete.

Like everything else it won’t really matter or change anything because people who are already APZ have OPR(s) that no longer have a command push or strats as a result of being passed over. So, unless there is some way to fix that, the people currently APZ (new IPZ window) will not get promoted at any significantly higher rate. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

One or two JTR mistakes would not seem to me like a capital crime, but this report paints a picture of consistent bending or breaking of the JTR. Not a good example to set, if nothing else. I can't form a judgement as to the information about her command style, I'm really old (all together now: 'OK Boomer') but what is described was typical leadership styles during the latter years Cold War.

Nothing wrong with attempting innovation in the UPT enterprise. We can’t stop calling for QOL and compensation improvements tho.

I just FOIA requested it.

I'm not excusing it, but you'd find JTR violations in the travel plans of every O-6+ if you gave them this much scrutiny. Some resulting from ignorance of the rules, and plenty due to intentional manipulation for personal gain/convenience. The point is that they never even get looked at if you're not a dick. You only get 150 pages documenting every trip to the bathroom you made over the course of a year after you've been identified as a problem. Her leadership got her fired. From a psychology standpoint it would be interesting to be the Senior Official Inquiries investigator. You're dealing with people who are used to having the world move on their whim. Nobody tells them no. What they say goes and nobody questions it (at least aloud). Then an investigation is opened and they're checking swipe card access logs to verify if it was possible that you bumped into a guy in the hallway of the Pentagon like you said you did. Must be humbling.

This happened to me with a FTU student I diverted with. Officers receive GTC’s at USAFA, UPT, etc. Enlisted don’t received one until they’re at their first permanent duty station. I diverted with a student Boom, A1C, who had no GTC. He also had no personal credit card since he was 18 years old. I had to put his lodging and M&I on mine, then work with the OG RA/CTO to get reimbursed. It was a pain, but worked out.

Also relatively easy fix, mask everything but the most recent 3-4 years or so.

They have to be made on a GTC unless your GTC doesn't work. I've done that a couple of times when my GTC didn't work for various reasons. You are then allowed to use your personal card. I think the takeaway was by having the cadet use their GTC to pay for her room, the cadet is now on the hook for paying that expense off, not her. I agree with you though on the overall idea of the GTC.

She’s a she. Guessing she wasn’t a good pilot or leader. It was entirely her being a her in an age where it is important to claim we are diverse fighting force. And after it became ok to be gay in the military the military wants to promote the diversity lie even more. And she goes further towards the top because she was the right gender, right sexual preference, at the right time. And this goes to show that promoting things like this just because gender or sexual preference makes us a weaker fighting force because we have to focus on stupid things like this instead of being the best we can be at our military jobs. And the sad thing is this kind of mentality isn’t rare. It’s happening everywhere. This one just gets the spot light because she is who she is and a squeaky wheel getting grease at this time. Our enemies are laughing at us. This and NIPR computer network and random nonsense military requirements (and the fluoride in the water) make us so weak.

Goodness. Love how she immediately goes to the “I had to deal with homophobia... not fair... not my fault...” bullshit. You screwed up and got caught. You seem like a $hitty leader and the people who you were charged to lead ended up stabbing you in the back while you were stepping on their heads to get to the top. How in the hell do we promote dipshits like this? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I can credit Lt Col Kincade almost entirely for preparing me to succeed on my instrument check. Phenomenal pilot. Rest easy gents. 🥃

It was this time last year when Capt John "Trojan" Graziano died in a T-38 crash, and a year before that when Capt Paul "Stuck" Barbour lost his life the same way. Don't worry gents, Trojan and Stuck are two of the best men and pilots I've ever met and I know they are giving our Vance boys a royal welcome up there. They're in good hands. Nickel on the grass.

Navy standard. It’s not gay if you’re underway

Jaysus... sick douche bag. **break break** I'm grateful to say that I got through my sq/cc tour without a link being posted in this thread about me getting fired. Today was my last day as the CC. It was great and terrible all at the same time & glad it's over/wish it would keep going all at once. Time for a cocktail.

"Are you ready to perform in the next grade? Let's go back 8 years to your SOS performance and find out"