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Sorry, the spammer was from Mumbai and has been deleted and banned. I also changed his password and blocked his email and IP address. Since this thread is 11+ years old, I should note that many years ago I not only found my buddy (he lives up in Fargo, ND) and was able to not only connect him with the guy that was with his father when he died, but also with his long-lost brother. That said, this thread is now officially closed (and locked.

Ops are probably not overpaid....go check out the support sections on your base and I think an argument could be made that some are overpaid, some shouldn’t even be employed. I was in an office last week that looked over staffed and most people are surfing the internet or playing on their phones. Don’t get me started on deployed ops. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

On a related topic, here's a link to a website that has mapped out all of the public employees who make more than $95K, with names and job titles: https://www.openthebooks.com/maps/?Map=90001&MapType=Pin As to military pay, it's clearly imbalanced between those who deserve what they're paid, or more, and those whose job doesn't command the pay and benefits they receive. The very few times I've spoken with someone who held the view that military members are paid "too much" or "a ton", I usually ask them, if it's such good pay, why didn't they join? I think once I got the medically unable reason, but the other couple times the person admits "well, when you put it that way..."

Probably, but don’t give anyone any bright ideas, because I don’t think we can trust them to cut the right 25%.

I remember 6+ years ago moving to the wing HQ for my attached job. Couldn’t believe how unemployed half the people were. Those doing work were mostly doing irrelevant tasks to justify their job and career. I bet we could cut ~25% of the force with little degradation of the actual mission. I say actual mission because most of the support functions just support themselves and call it the mission. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I realize this is a non-answer, but if his attorney hasn’t already answered this question, my advice would be to retain an attorney who would have already answered this question.

It's my go-to rejoinder when I hear someone complain about the great health insurance I get from Tricare. I usually give them the math on how many years of my career I've spent deployed.....

I’ve definitely seen it on deployments as well. Room full of fat base ops airmen distracted by morale drive movies that would only help us when directly and loudly engaged. Compare that with the Marines manning Kadena base ops that snapped to attention and almost seemed embarrassed that they didn’t have enough to do. There are two different Air Force cultures; we have too many of one and not enough of the other.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Rise of Skywalker. It was easily the best of the new trilogy. My main critique is that at times it seemed a bit rushed to wrap up the storyline, but overall highly recommended!

As I look at going on some orders prior to our deployment, it's quite amazing at the difference. As a 18 year O-5 and 6 year WB FO, it's ~37% cut, but that doesn't figure in the tax benefit of BAH/BAS. If I were on the big bonus it would be about a 24% cut. Must not be too overstaffed as our base just got hit with 25+ 6 month individual involuntary mobilizations (mostly MX, but a few LRS) to the desert. They're mostly SNCOs and a few MX officers, who will be going over to run shops at various bases in the AOR. Most are going to run shops that are currently being run by other Guard guys since the AD can't effectively manage their force. I've seen plenty of 6 month individual mobs in SFS and our Red horse guys, but in my short 18 years in the ANG I've never seen it with MX. I would agree though that some may be overpaid while other are severely underpaid. The real shitty part is they'll all be getting home as we are leaving on our deployment, so we're losing LOTS of our best MX NCOICs when we need them most in our squadron deployment. Based on the timing/dwell, we could very well lose them for our next deployment if they choose not to waive dwell. In the mean time, we'll likely have more 6 month individual mobs drops, and lose them as well, further perpetuating the downward spiral. It won't take much of that before we start losing our top talent who say fuck this, I have my 20 militarily and can go Title 5 or find similar paying gigs on the outside. The AD is doing its level best to kill what has made the ANG so great in retaining amazing talent.

All the innovations/best practices from PTN/UPT bases will be baked into the syllabus. It won’t be an ad hoc construct and things won’t be waived for timeline.

No one in mx ever wants to say it but besides crew chiefs all the specialist sections are probably over staffed which leaves, like you said, half the shop doing nothing and getting paid for it. I’m sure its a million times worse in other support functions. But common sense leadership doesn’t seem to exist anymore so we have these completely useless tracking systems that only see fudged work numbers and not the real picture and we make decisions based on bullshit numbers. I only have first hand experience of this type of management in the MX field but I would bet a lot of money this is how decisions are made across the AF as a whole. Over analysis with bullshit data. So in summary, ya a shit ton of the AF is overpaid and the remaining people are underpaid.

Yup...that's about the same range as Northern Australia to cover all of Indonesia or Spratly Islands. An LO platform that as a singleton that could deliver the A/G effects of 2 x F-35 without AR across a theater (I define that as 750 NM) is what were talking about IMHO. Develop a platform to compliment the F-35 to continue the strategy of raising the capes of capable allies to keep the strategic competitors deterred.