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Air Force: You are mission essential! You and your job are so critically important we need you to continue to come to work during a pandemic. Also the Air Force: make a face mask out of an ABU sock

Well man, to be fair, at this point in time, you are going to look like an idiot being the person not wearing one. Honestly, I could hardly care. Masks were widespread in Asia while stationed there and I got used to wearing one daily in Korea due to the air polution. The Bird Flu/SARS/H1N1 outbreaks, all out of Asia forced a cultural change to normalize the wear of sanitary mask on a day to day basis and there is empirical evidence that it has drastically slowed the spread of COVID in those countries. I would predict a similar cultural change will come out of this and to be honest I'm happy about that because I'm tired of sick ass people coming to work and breathing all over the mission planning computers and what not.

https://theweek.com/articles/906647/noble-lie-about-masks-coronavirus-should-never-have-been-told “We must put an end to the idea that the best way to get through this crisis is to say things we know are not true in the hope of getting people to behave a certain way. This means not saying masks are useless when what you really mean is, "Masks are in short supply, please consider before you start hoarding them whether you really need them at present and if so how many."

So, what's the over-under on when all Summer PCS moves are canceled? Slight disagreement with Bashi...shit's already retarded

If noone has told you, if able, make sure you get 50 points during this year while you wait to go to training. I understand that this may not be possible with the current situation. You get 15 points for just being a member of the ANG and you get an additional point for ever pay card you turn in. The 50 points are based on your enlistment year, not fiscal year or calendar year. If you don't get 50 points, that year won't count as a "good" year toward your 20 years for retirement.

Mask fabrication techniques and filtration effectiveness aside, this is just the latest in a laundry list of half-assed mitigation measures put in place by leadership to simply look like they're doing something. Want to hear another one? UPT bases are currently doing two-team alternating day ops with half the IPs/studs flying one day while the other half has the day off. The idea is to mitigate the spread by reducing total pool of people you interact with. Which sounds like a decent idea until you consider the fact that they're all working in the same building, sitting at the same desks, flying the same airplanes, and storing their gear in 6-9 inches from someone else's in a cramped peg room. My buddy's quote referencing this policy: "it's almost like we're doing something.. to look like we're doing something.. while not actually doing anything at all."

I'm just frustrated at how this mask guidance came out. On a Sunday afternoon, instructing people who largely aren't supposed to be leaving the house to come to work Monday with a mask... From somewhere? And the Air Force wasted no time dictating appearance rules for the masks... But provided zero resources to anyone to fulfill the guidance. Maybe it is better than nothing, but it seems like a lot of higher level leadership decisions. Can't do anything smart, can't solve the problem... But they can do something visible so they don't get fired for "not doing enough".

Put a trash bag over your head with a rubber band around your neck, that’ll keep that shit out.

So if you do AFTP’s/RD/RSD’s you can do 2 a day and they count 2 points towards your 50. Orders (AT, MEST, MPA, etc) only count as one.

Reading comprehension is hard. This is all it takes for someone to not comprehend what they are reading and start spreading stupid shit telling people masks make COVID-19 worse. If you have a medical mask then sure, it's worse...but for those who don't it's better than nothing. It's spread through droplets in the air, so while it may not catch all the particles, if it catches any you are likely better off protecting yourself or others with a cloth. Also it keeps mouth breathers from constantly touching their mouth and spreading germs everywhere. Wear one of the 50 shemaghs you've been issued, a handkerchief, a homemade mask or that old N95 sitting in your garage for years. Aircrew as a community immediately pillory anyone for not consulting an expert and making uneducated statements with regards to aviation...yet we constantly see people particularly in this thread turn their nose up at the nation's leading experts because they think they know better. It's like a dude trying to convince his fellow airline passengers not to listen to the aircraft commander and ignore the oxygen mask that just fell from the ceiling because his bro once told him sometimes it just happens. Why question it...it's literally not hurting anyone to put a mask on and hopefully it will end this whole thing 69 seconds earlier.

shit is getting retarded

Bet the Navy is sad that Top Gun II was delayed right about now.

Pretty close the story that was relayed to me by one of my buddies in the class. From my understanding one of the sticking points was that they "broke into" the flight room on the weekend (through 2 cipher locks), to get to the EPQ. From what I remember, all but the 1 Guard guy (who ended up quitting) made it back into training. One of them was my roommate in the B-Course. Another one was in the B-Course after mine. He was showed up to Sheppard right after commissioning and was on admin hold so long that he was a Captain when he showed up to the B-Course. I think many of then were Captains before they left Sheppard. It was a mess and a ridiculous overreaction.

Well...that's going to go well. Here's a fun one with sailor commentary (aka yelling) at certain portions. My fav @ 1:58 - "What the fuck?"

SECNAV just help create an Undue Command Influence defense that a first-year online-law school student could close

This picture was taken at La Aurora airport in Guatemala City. Around 87 or 88. It was a great TDY till we had an NDI E-6 eject in the chocks after an incentive flight. The canopy almost took me out as it flew off and landing off to the side. The seat went up and about 100 feet forward. Landing on top of the guy still strapped in. He didn’t make it

Great, wear a fucking mask since there's a ton of people who are asymptomatic and don't even know. They're not dumbasses since we can't even get tests to most of the folks with some of the symptoms. They wouldn't test any of my Airmen/buddies who didn't have all the symptoms: One dude had all of them but the fever..."no test, not COVID-19." One dude's wife is positive, no test for the rest of the family, they only had fevers and slight cough..."no test, not COVID-19." Another guy had all the symptoms, not healthcare worker..."no test, not COVID-19." Buddy in another Sq, all symptoms and had to get carried into the ER, not healthcare worker, "no test, not COVID-19." He had to have his family carry him to the bathroom he was so exhausted. More data will become available and we'll adjust. Acting like something isn't a perfect solution so why try...are you a Col/GO? This whole thing is the greatest example of "it's not about you" and give a shit about your fellow human being.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/04/the-navys-crisis-of-special-trust-and-confidence/ I thought this was an excellent write up of the USS TR incident and how the Navy (mis)handled things.

This dude won’t make it through the day. Calling the commander of the TR “naieve and stupid” to his former crew...what an assclown. https://www.foxnews.com/us/acting-navy-secretary-ousted-uss-theodore-roosevelt-captain-stupid-naive-coronavirus and here’s the audio he broadcasted to the ship’s crew https://youtu.be/G7mwlwO0mdM

Guys, it's not hard. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, stay home if you can. If you have to go out, stay 6 feet away from people/social distance if possible, and wear a mask in order to reduce/slow transmission of the virus. The mask is for those around you, in case you have the virus and are contagious but not yet symptomatic. Keep your mask clean, change it out when it gets moist. Assume it's dirty when you take it off, so wash your hands. That goes for cloth masks, n95 respirators, surgical masks, bandannas, etc. If you are sick, stay home. These are the TTPs we have right now, hopefully we can get more research into it and industry to move on a future solution to enable better TTPs.

Also, as Guard/Reserve, any time you accrue under Title 10 orders can be applied towards reduced retirement age, I think in 90 day increments. So for a guard baby, that should at the very least be 2 years (AMS/UPT/BCourse) plus any deployments subtracted from Guard retirement age. Collect that money earlier! Its not automatic. You gotta go on vMPF, search for it, upload all your orders, and they gonkulate a new retirement date for you.

Effectiveness of moustaches? My bulletproof moustache continues to bat 1000.

The new reflective belt.

What’s interesting, and makes sense imo, is about a week ago I read on the CDC website a recommendation that while cloth masks will do little to help individuals, it would be good to tell people to wear them so they choose that over hoarding N95, etc. masks. The intent was clear that general mask wear was not a high Pk virus stopper, but rather the masses were going to do it anyways, so let’s at least get them to not waste the masks that healthcare workers desperately need. That’s paraphrasing, but that was the message of the recommendation. Fairly smart tactic on their part.

It’s hurting me by making me look like a fucking idiot.

Don’t cough or sneeze on people, stay home if you’re sick. It’s pretty simple, don’t need to walk around with a mask on for the next year...unless you just can’t handle those easy steps, then by all means slap that maxipad on your face and have fun at the grocery store!

This is when it pays to live off base.

It's not like it was a unilateral decision. It was a scheduled port call. And again, his immediate boss was on the ship. Does anyone think his boss said "don't stop in Vietnam" and he did it anyway? Edit to add: at the time they disembarked the ship in Vietnam, the country had fewer than ten cases total. It was before the travel ban from China. It was before Italy had their first case. It wasn't the height of the epidemic.

Can confirm that getting released from AFSOC is difficult. I’ve been at Hurlburt for awhile and only know one guy that was released. Several people from Cannon were able to pull it off, but definitely few and far between.

So that's the secret to Huggy's long U-2 career...

Organize your drop sheet based on what you feel you would enjoy doing the most after UPT. Trying to play the system or plan for beyond your first ops assignment is pointless and won’t end well. By the time you qualify for any of the weird, non standard assignments they may no longer be a thing, your life will have changed, you may no longer desire to apply for them. As much as I’m sure you and all your buddies in UPT feel you can stick it out for the long game, you will not be okay doing something you don’t enjoy for years, no matter how much you feel you could.

Some interesting patches for sale. https://pizzastrike.bigcartel.com/ Especially the ANG and AFR ones.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/490979-sailors-cheer-navy-captain-who-was-removed-after-pleading-for-help-with When's the last time a unit started spontaneously cheering for a fired commander?

Honestly, if you're finishing up a 10 year UPT commitment, and meet the mins, you're well qualified.