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“And this section right here lists all the girls I took on dates but never slept with”

Ok...gay ‘athletic endeavor’. Better?

The "Frozen Middle" is real. https://othjournal.com/2018/12/17/forget-the-frozen-middle-this-mysterious-layer-of-bureaucracy-is-not-an-insurmountable-obstacle-to-innovation-even-if-it-did-exist/

Congress hasn't been in good faith for over a decade. Just look at the requests for Obama to have a new AUMF for the ISIS fight. Nobody on either side of the isle wanted to put their name on a "vote for war" that may end poorly like the one for GW II. It's easier for them to not do anything and blame the Executive rather than actually do their job and legislate.

1: clearly marked as chaff 2: fuck those guys if they think everyone has to go to staff. If you want to fly, stay in a flying squadron.

Tracking - sacrifice more now, so you can sacrifice even more later...all of it of questionable value. How's pilot and cyber retention going? Looks like Chang is back.

Banking may be a strong word. I just wish I hadn't been as blindsided by it. I had a whole series of commanders telling me how great I was, that I was integral to the mission, that I had improved the unit, that I was doing great work...then I got passed over. So either the boards were fucked up, or my commanders lacked the balls to actually tell me where I stood early enough to make a difference. I did do the feedback with AFPC. Basically worthless, because they told me all the things I already knew: 1. Didn't get a DP, so I was already at a disadvantage compared to the majority meeting the board. 2. Not enough (read - zero) career broadening. Never got out of a bomb wing, so again at a disadvantage compared to people who went to a staff/ALO/non-flying job. Not that I didn't try...I applied for three of those AFPC mail robot things, including the one to be a finance officer, but I couldn't get released by my functional to do any of them. 3. Limited supervision time. As a rated officer in a flying squadron, I had at most 6 people I rated on at any given point. MX, LRS, SFS, etc officers are supervising 200+ airmen at the same time in their career. 4. Everything was flying. The board doesn't want 4 deployments and 2000 combat hours. They want one deployment, enough sorties to get one Air Medal, then they want you to move on to the next job. 5. Not enough Tier 1 strats. A lot of #x/xx shop chief, #y/yy flight commanders, but not enough early #x/xx captains.

I spend enough time in airports dealing with the masses, so going out to a crowded movie theater on a Saturday night during an opening weekend is not usually in the flight plan. This is one movie worth going to regardless of the crowd size. An awesome movie, and a must see on the big screen.....

I realize they canned the OG, but I didn’t realize the two O6s at Columbus had a total of 0 Air Medals between them. That make sense for the two highest ranking pilots in charge of training military pilots. I guess that’s the Air Force in a nutshell. Combat experience is only one line on an OPR. Brian Regan has a bit about the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable.

12 Saudis Sent Home It’s about time. Hopefully this is just the start and we’re going to actually vet these people more thoroughly.

Agreed! Fantastic. I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie where I wasn’t looking at my watch waiting for it to end. I was legit surprised it was over because it just held my attentiont so well I looked at my watch and was surprised how long I had actually been sitting there.

Just walked out of it out here in LA. Best war movie since Saving Private Ryan. I shit you not.

Sounds like SOS! Flex anyone? Remember that gay “sport”? Your Wing King sounds like a tool. Tell him people like him are the reason we have a retention problem.

Let’s examine the clues: - posts about his own mentorship prowess - posts his own strats - works at a non-flying training wing & is clearly better than everyone else - dumb enough to think changing a screen name but keeping same life details & writing style will fool us all. I think you’ve cracked this case.

This Subaru F.U.C.K.S. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31783/this-subaru-f-u-c-k-s?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation

Waste of time? Reading and writing about our profession is a waste of time? I think that's extreme. As far as whether it's "Basing selection for promotion on that single item...", I gotta say it's not. With ACSC and crap performance in your primary duty, you probably won't make it. ACSC plus DUI = no promotion and maybe early separation. The truth is that good candidates for promotion probably have all of it. One difficult part of the conversation is that ACSC today isn't the same as ACSC 14 years ago, roughly when I did it. It was easy to knock out at that time, but they purposefully made it more cumbersome, which I disagree with. Anything that's fairly even among all candidates though isn't worthless. It teaches you more about your profession and you may question how much, but I doubt you can honestly say not at all, at least not if you try to complete it with that end in mine. Further, it filters those willing to do something that's a pain but is clearly helpful for career progression from those who won't. In my career there have been a lot of sacrifices. I'm not saying adding some as a discriminator is necessary, but I am saying if you're not willing to do something so relatively easy, then you're unlikely to be willing to do a lot of the later ones that are much more demanding.