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Look at how much they love each other now, versus the debates. Harris is looking at him like he's the man of her dreams. Probably the same look she gave Willie Brown

That’s exactly my point. Media bias plain and clear. 4 years of everything Trump said being dissected, misrepresented, “fact checked”, dramatized, then proclaimed as evil from the mountain top of literally every single liberal media outlet in existence. And now every crazy ass statement from Biden and it’s “nothing to see here, moving along, oh isn’t he just wonderful!” The current state of our so-called news reporting is laughable at best, but probably more appropriately labeled shameful. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I took that to mean that Kamala would have to come up with a reason to quit, just like he would have under Obama. But as usual, the man is incapable of putting a clear thought together. After 4 years of Trump doing the same thing, we should be used to it.

Army: you have to blouse your flight suit pants inside your boots everywhere you go unless your in an actual aircraft doing pilot stuff... then you’ll be expected to un-blouse your pants. Because being a pilot in the army doesn’t make you special. Therefore, the army will go the extra mile to make you look like a NONer/POG. You’ll never stay at fancy hotels or go on cool DTYs and will get to eat crap MREs all the time. Never wear a one piece flight suit and never feel like your a real pilot ever because hey... the army’s primary tasks and purpose in life is the ground force... everything else is secondary, and I totally get it. Don’t expect to make it pass W2 or O3 for a very very long time. The army will expect you to be happy eating crap as a W2/O3 for years!!!! while your AF friends are making O4 on time in grade only. Also don’t get sucked into the lie about warrant officers being a “flying” only track. Warrants still get the pleasure of getting sucked into doing lots and lots BS paperwork and admin crap. Don’t be a commission guy unless you hate flying and would feel comfortable flying a desk after making captain. The higher the rank in the Commission side, the more of a “hazard” you are to the flight because of the useless knowledge of being PowerPoint ranger taking valuable brain space. If your ever granted the high honor of flying a chinook, well that might be as close as you’ll get to being a Cool guy in army aviation. The UH60 guys are a bunch of power limited toolbags that struggle to lift a cheerio and the Apache guys have a real good time canceling flights because the 64 loves to sit broken in a hangar. Lastly, as a guard part time guy... the words “weekend warrior” will become distant memory/fantasy. Part time bros have to fly all the time, almost once a week, to meet minimums. It will be like having two full time jobs that will result in the loss of free time that should be dedicated to YOU and your family. Long commutes to drill are absolutely non-realistic. You can’t fly on the weekends because that would mess up the full timer’s personal weekend plans and don’t rely or expect to get any hours during drill weekend. Drill time will be better spent doing SHARP classes, thumb drive awareness classes, inventories, and attending promotion ceremonies of folks you have never meet. You will have to meet minimums on your own time Monday-Friday. You will also have to dedicate lots of your personal time at home studying that you’ll never get compensated for. The army guard program for the part time guys is not built for you so that you can have a better quality of life. Its built to support the army full timers and the full time program. If your okay with all of the above, then welcome to the “B team”. If not, I would try to be a full time guy if you can at all cause, at least for the first few years after flight school. I can’t speak for the AF Pedro guys but I was able to hack lots of missions with those boys back at KAF. Working alongside PJs is pretty cool. Not to mention that Pedro can accept a higher level of mission risk probably because the 50 cal or mini guns that can’t compete with the army’s 240 on a combat operation. I always got a real kick at watching how pissed off and disappointed the army MedEvac guys would get when a call would come in. If the Pedro was up and ready, they always got priority on answering the 9 line call. Leaving the army guys in the parking pad as running spare / backup to the A Team. Hope that helps. Go AF... cheers! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

So where is the hypocrisy? Just Republicans? Or both? It's definitely both.

For a flying-only track It would be nice to see the AF actually open opportunities to flyers with >10 years TAFCS time. Kinda ironic to be told as a captain that you’re too old to meet a board for consideration, for ADSC reasons.

We can have Trump saying crazy shit for years...but now every word is gospel. K.

https://streamable.com/6n72u3 Romain's interview about the accident. He goes into detail.

Is this the part where we pretend, regardless of the intentional or unintentional nature of the squib kick, that this makes sense. Take the top male kickers and pit them against the top female kickers. There will be no surprises. The fact they had to put a female into the weakest position on the weakest team does more damage to the cause. Absurd. There are plenty of sports where gender is irrelevant. Why pick one where it's most relevant? Remember this gem? https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/australian-womens-national-team-lose-70-to-team-of-15yearold-boys-a3257266.html

He's coaching a narrative. This is about broad power manipulation. All of the last 3 Presidents began their first term with narratives that denigrated their legitimacy. Obama had birthers, Trump had Russia conspiracy theorist, and now Biden will have vote manipulation. This is the new washington power play to keep your ideaology offensive even when you aren't in power.

NASA has been doing a lot of interesting sonic boom research... all leading to this demonstrator. It looks like it might be flying in 2021. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/quesst.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lowboom/team The pilot doing the first flight says you cannot see out of cockpit: you land it watching a camera image on an MFD.

So our Sq is soliciting volunteers for COVID vaccine volunteers. I guess our base is getting a limited number and it's a trial run. What really makes me scratch my head is that nobody can answer if it will DNIF us, if we will get sick/symptoms, how long the trial is (besides the fact that it is two doses), and several other seemingly obvious questions/answers. Not sure if this because nobody knows or if it's just bad communication from the top down on this tasker. If it doesn't DNIF me, I don't get stupidly sick, and I can avoid ROM/prison lodging rooms on my TDYs I think I'd rather roll the dice with the vaccine.

I asked and was told we’d hear back after 2 weeks. Tomorrow is 2 weeks to the date so I’d say off chance we hear back tomorrow but I’m expecting early next week. Cheers and good luck!

hindsight i roll my eyes every time i read your posts, but then after re-reading them almost always agree with the basic theme you're trying to get across! ha! very much agree with giving out IP/EP too early....seems like EP is given to "check the box" for the shiny pennies...at least anecdotal experience

Interesting discussion. For all the legitimate gripes [and gratuitous sport-bitches alike] I have about AFRC, I can say they've haven't yet treated the nuances of my career motivations with the level of backhanded derision intimated on this thread of much of AD. In further fairness to AFRC, at least under my current NAF, they've made inroads towards keeping the conga line moving on the promotion front for those so interested in management, by converting line O-5 AGR positions into term billets. Separating them from those of us in non-term (AFRC speak for voluntary-permanent) positions (an O-4 control grade). This is being done in order to not get stuck with MSD "squatters" in O-5 AGRs who tended to time out younger guys with aspirations/grooming for command. That had been a legitimate problem for a decade plus. Shocker as it may be to the AD audience, not everybody has a penchant for making O-5 as the litmus test for feeling dignified/properly compensated in life. The ARC doesn't penalize you for it by forcing an up-or-out on the lower (O-4) control grade. I think that was a good balance and compromise all things considered. One man's opinion and all that. Of course, one is encouraged to keep all avenues open, which is why I completed ACSC DL. But my point is that in general, nobody around here is shaming me (so far) for taking pride in being a high time IP/EP, expending my time and energy in mentorship roles in ADCON/OPCON alike, while looking forward to a very much earned 20-24yr O-4 (or even O-5 in the right circumstances) AD retirement and Tricare in my late 40s. Based on this thread, it's clear to me that is viewed with derision if not outright contempt in AD. Maybe they should work on that cultural blind spot. I suppose if one wanted to be believed when uttering that tactical experts are indeed a quantity to be valued/retained, perhaps don't start off the salvo by insinuating that role should be compensated at the level of a slick wing O-3 with no bonus, just because the O-5 aspirants regard flight ops to be menial CGO scutwork on their way to middle management. Dynamic which I find ironic, given half of them weren't worth a shit at flying/employing in the first place. I could further retort that AD grants IP/EP credentials to these managers-in-training waaay too soon/liberally for their britches, leading AD flying organizations looking like a bunch of unsupervised children who end up bending metal, while petulantly smearing the bystanders' (ANG/AFRC Silverbacks and Iron-Majors et al) warnings as ramblings of irrelevant malcontents. I could further point at the dozen or so class-As as exhibit A thru L to further illustrate the fruits of that blind spot, but I think I've made my point, so I digress. I like some of the ideas floated previously, especially a non-punitive look at later-in-life opportunities to cross-flow/special flying programs. "Choose your own adventure" indeed. Cheers!

All good points. I think what I was getting at is you need to continue to build the skill set and on a fly only track you can target breadth over depth. Maybe put these guys into cross flow programs where they can bring one platforms insight to another, get them into the AETC wickets deciding how to build better pilots, WIC for sure, but you need WIC guys on staff as well so that's tricky. Test is another good place that expereince pays dividends at the tactical level. Perhaps rebrand the idea behind evaluators to be a position reserved for these folks and stop making a Captain with 1 year of IP expereince the highest flight qual in the AF. (Ive always felt Evaluator is a job better performed by Majors/Lt Cold with that big picture perspective) I guess the frustration for me is, when I hit my late 30s, my career should be rocket shipping to my max earnings potential. In the AF though, we do that at Capt to Major and then after Major if you are not on the command track you basically shallow out to retirement. It makes the appeal of staying in so much less.

One issue is on paper there is no difference between an O-5 line IP and an O-3 line IP. There is nothing to credentialize any value added by an IP with an additional 5-6 years of experience. Really there is a good case for a non flying track but the AF needs to look at several angles on it, not just making non promotable O-4s who still deploy and take staff jobs. 1.) How do you continue to develop and broaden a line IP who is no longer promotable? What will you do to make him more lethal, more valuable to the AF? 2.) How do you compensate people on a fly only track to be competitive with the airlines, while recognizing they are never going to advance beyond technical/tactical experts in the AF. 3.) How many pilots do you REALLY need on a fly only track? 1-3 of these types per a squadron is probably the max neccessary. So really there needs to be 3 career tracks at hitting FGO. A fly only track, a command track, but then also a staff track that continues to develop you as an officer and puts you in a position to protect the fly only track types from non flying gigs. How do you incentivize that though? The key problem in all of this is unless you are on the command track the AF has no means to continue developing you. So you flatten out and lose appeal.

He’s clueless enough to say that cutting recruitment might be a good idea, plus it presents opportunities for challenges in the future. He’s spouting buzzwords without concern for reality, merely for the sake of being quotable for future PME... ”If the future Air Force force structure can’t afford bread, let them eat cake!”