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Started going to AFG in 2002. Was last there in 2018. I visited most, if not all, C-130 capable airfields in the country. In addition to the most important/worst part, the human cost, we watched the bases go from old Soviet buildings, to tents, to B-huts, to shipping containers, to hard billets, and then abandoned. Buckets to port-a-pots, to cadillacs, to proper shitters, then abandoned. The continuous pouring of square miles of concrete at every airfield. Giant bases created in the open desert and then bulldozed. The contractors everywhere. We looked down on the continuous train of supply trucks stretching halfway across the country from Pakistan. Watched the 24/7 arrival of equipment, MRAPs, M-ATVs, earthmovers, construction equipment, trucks for years on end. All used up and now rotting in giant graveyards. Trillions of dollars disposed of in that wasteland. No point, just don't know what to think of it all.

They are still reviewing apps bro. I have a few buddies there and that’s what he told me yesterday.

Ok, I’ll stir this pot. I’d honestly want to hear his answer if he were fully read into the scope and scale of the challenge and given time to develop a solution for US broad-spectrum dominance. I’ll bet it wouldn’t look anything like the net-centric lumbering command and control beast we use right now. Smart people do things better than we do. If you’ve seen how an AOC works, you know I’m right. Just sayin

The 122d Fighter Squadron is planning to hold an Inexperienced hiring board on Sunday, 17 May 2020. Please contact Maj Stanley Cheng at 122fspilothiring@gmail.com if you're interested in visiting the World Famous Bayou Militia over March or April drill (14-15 March, 4-5 April). Cheers, Lt Col Sam Joplin Commander, 122d Fighter Squadron

My personal preference of CSAF would be a career ops O5 straight to CSAF. That would shake things up.

Holding out hope that any CSAF will materially improve life for airmen is just asking for disappointment. The best we can hope is he just doesn't further f it up.

If our enemies already know their own TTPs, why do they need to be heavily classified? 🤔 it's a joke

It’s an academy tradition during football games to honor those who have passed.

As long as we take a “total destruction” mindset like WW2, it could work. Aside from OGA/HVI targeting missions, it needs to be all out death and destruction for decisive action, to the end that it’s so bad for our enemies they choose not to step out of line against the western world again. Anything less and we end up in the same cycle of constant deployed ops.

Maybe we just deploy, Kill the resistance, then come home and not try to perpetually nation build. Then when they fvck up again, we deploy, kill the resistance, then come home again. Just my opinion, but I’m sick of that whole freaking area. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

The only thing keeping you from getting called for the interview might be felonies and drugs, but there are still plenty of ways to f up the interview, and not giving it the proper respect is the first way.

But “you’re” grammar problem won’t!

Positive one shared on reddit. Boston controller helping out a min fuel Viper. 2:23:00 if the link bugs out.

Man, you should've heard some of the arguments of my Navy bros on this very thing. The dudes shouting "First actual CSAR since Vietnam" couldn't really explain why/how it was so dangerous when some dude in an ice cream truck parked on the side of the road was live streaming the pickup on Youtube.

Figure I'll chip in since I went mid-June. I am off the street/civlian - Travis travelpay/CTO was great and got me through O'Hare to Dayton no problem. I had to change flights home twice and it was no problem. If you're not prior-service - you likely WILL NOT be in the on-base billeting hotel. There is a hotel just outside the gate called the Sunset Inn that you'll be at with other Reserve/Guard baby types. I found this out at 2am after trying to check in at on-base billeting (Wright Patterson Inn). My hotel room was great - I didn't eat breakfast there (I had to fast multiple days) but everything else was great. I'm 22 so meeting some ROTC people near my age was awesome - also the ANG/Reserve applicants I met were great too - I even met somebody who was also hired to fly KC-10s in the squadron across the building from me. My group was about 75%/25% ROTC and Reserve/ANG sponsored UPT people. Our liaison was incredibly nice - we had like 30 VHS movies to choose from (Bond, Indiana Jones, We Were Soldiers, even some Disney classics I think haha) and freedom to get food off or on base when time allowed between appointments. The biggest thing to remember is attitude. You will be rushed from little office to little office to check things off on your appointment cover sheet. But, it's all in the interest of time and I found that everybody (even the grumpier seeming ones) were focused on helping you get a checkmark and leave on time. I got extra coaching on things like the PFT and depth perception if I asked and had a good attitude. In the weeks prior I joked to my friends and family that I'd be fine unless "I had some heart thing I didn't know about" and SURE ENOUGH they found something on my EKG. I had to wear a Haltor monitor (like a vest of sensors for 24hrs) and do an echocardiogram AND treadmill stress test. I ended up being there until Thursday afternoon. I had a good attitude and kept my stress levels down and didn't stay up googling waiver reqs and statistics and focused on learning what I could from my flight doc and specialists. I ended up getting waived for PVC's/arrythmia. I'm so grateful for them taking care of me - especially when 25 others were breezing through their tests and heading home. Found out later that my waiver was a actually a tough one to pass - so remember attitudes and impressions as well as being able to talk about your medical history comfortably will get you over some hurdles.