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oh no you don't...we KNEW pretty early on that covid was statistically a non event for young, healthy people. and turns out Fauci and his buddies at Pfizer KNEW it didn't prevent the spread...we were told straight up lies and coerced into taking a shot that provides zero protection and is very harmful...latest numbers i heard were 1 in 800 have side effects. that is a very high number and this shot should NEVER have been MANDATED. so don't give me this 20/20 bullshit....the warnings were being issued very early on but FUCKING CENSORED

The Covid zealots are trying to pretend they weren’t total fucking psycho’s forcing harmful poison on us all. Revisionist history will not work.

Well that's neat.

Says the guy on long term mloa... But seriously, do what Brabus said. You may actually find that being a DSG is just way mo betta. I just finished 6 months of full time MLOA and it was like dragging my balls through a mile of broken glass...FT just isn't for me. Being within 6 years of an AGR retirement makes that a tougher call. If you want orders, you'll get them, especially if you're willing to travel. We have one guy on indefinite orders at USAFE and we just got an e-mail asking if anyone wants indefinite orders at Hickam. We get requests all the time asking for bodies to fill orders.

Many times, over the middle of the Pacific in the wee hours of the morning have I considered the number of latex dongs I’ve helped deliver around the world, spreading pleasure to women everywhere. Then I remember that 90% of them are probably just headed to BQZip’s mom’s house & I throw up in my mouth a little & wash it down with some freight dawg coffee while I try to think about something else.

And here you confirmed it. I guess I should have seen this from earlier posts.

True, freight gets to fly around literal boxes of dildos. Not this onesie twosie weak sauce...

What I see in that article is hardly "journalism". "Wobbly", "bulbous" and "gliding at the edge of space" are terms better suited to a freshman Creative Writing course. Ms Cohen doesn't have her facts even close... appears to know nothing about the U-2... hasn't provided much in the way of sources other than Sen Budd "noting the service's plan". Could it happen? I guess so. I'm no insider to the workings of the staff world. Far from it. It's no secret that SeCAF is in favor of retiring it. But with the continued successes we've had lately (don't ask), a 2026 retirement is something I'll gladly throw down a large stack of 2 dollar bills and bet against. edit: writing this reminded me of something. In late 2010, Ben Iannotta of C4ISR Journal wrote an opinion piece about the U-2 that I took exception too. I was an active duty Lt Col flying the U-2, and wrote a rebuttal... and it got published. I recall people I knew calling me and warning me about stirring the pot, since the U-2 was not in-vogue with some of AF and DoD leadership, especially VCJCS (Gen Cartwright... the guy later pardoned by Obama). Two months later, I was non-vol'd to the MC-12. Coincidence?

At the risk of sounding like a DW cheerleader the Exodus series is outstanding as well. It’s not meant to be evangelistic and is lead by Jordan Peterson and includes Jewish, secular, and Christian scholars/thinkers exploring the second book of the Bible/Torah historically with an eye towards its implications and impact on Western thinking over the ages. The series digs deep and thoughtfully looks at the text from several perspectives. The series won’t convince you of the Gospel (and doesn't try to) but it will def make you think about the book’s significance in shaping all of us who grew up in the West as well as an appreciation for the benefits to society of believing in the existence of God/a god/higher being. Highly recommended for everybody, religious or atheist.

😬 Seriously OP, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Knock out a solid ADSC, try to fly as much as you can, scoff the qweep. If you're still so inclined, reconsider your interest in making such a transition later down the road. If (likely) the options are not there, go get a higher paying civilian flying job with that mil experience and buy an RV-(n), and put this chapter of life behind ya. At least that was my plan if I couldn't reach escape velocity from the assignment before my RSC expired. There's ways you can mine this situation and pivot a net gain, even if it's not your dream job.You've been given good gouge on the non-standard options on the heavy track upthread already. Consider mulling those alternatives as you move forward. Good luck.

On the Bud Light note, now that Bud seems to be slightly walking back on the woke stuff, they're getting boycotted from the other side as well (and most of the original boycotters haven't stopped). Let this be a lesson to businesses out there; stay out of politics. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bud-lights-dylan-mulvaney-controversy-deepens-chicago-gay-bars-roar-beer-makers-abandonment-cause#&_intcmp=fnhpbt9

War is horrific...simply horrific. I remember my first few missions and the metric of success was always the number. We count everything, crap many of us growing up who dreamed of flying wanted to be an Ace because we thought that was the top of the glorified pyramid. In time and as I flew more missions and my "number" became stupidly high...(on one misisons I killed 32 men in 8 minutes)...I had to stop counting. Yes they were evil people who deserved to die but it was still someone's brother, father, son, cousin...and I didn't want to surrender my humanity in the process. I PRAY my son never has to see the horror of war. While I cheer the Ukrainians it is not lost on me that the ones dying are not that ones that caused this horror. Yes the Russian troops are committing atrocities but this is not a simple good vs bad situation and a lot of young men and women (and innocents), are dying because of a diabolical human in Moscow. I hope Ukraine kicks the snot out of the Russians and they flee back to Russia and I hope it all ends right there. At the end of the day we all do our duty, and I did it very well, but we don't have the celebrate the carnage

Absolutely possible, but low chance of success. How: Rush units and convince them to hire you and secure the required T-38 TX, IFF, and B-Course training spots. Why it’s hard: well why does a unit want to risk a heavy guy making it through all that when they can hire dudes that don’t need any of those courses and are already fighter experienced? Also, that’s 1.5-2 yrs in a pipeline as an “old” guy that the unit doesn’t get shit out of you. Then when you’re done with training, you’re a “pretty old” guy basically starting at the beginning and less useful than the 25-28 yr old LT/Capt. Rush less desirable units (location, politics, etc) and you’ll have a better shot, but that really probably means you went from .05 PK to .1 PK. Thats the reality - not saying don’t go for it, but chance of success is very slim.

Worked for me. With what the airlines are paying today, I would suggest an Extra.

If you don't do the volunteer work I do, you're a lazy pussy is a pretty hot take. Sometimes you seem like a rational, intelligent person with some contrarian views, then you post some unhinged emotional nonsense like this and make me wonder if you're just another nut with too much time in front of a keyboard.

Get out, get a line number, piece together full time orders to make up 6 years…or you may end up deciding not to go for the FT retirement. Maybe it sounds crazy now, but it won’t sound so crazy once you’ve tasted life outside the mil (not to mention 6 years at the airline will massively outpace a mil retirement earnings-wise).

Meh, that message was probably the extent of the pilots "dealing" with a pax. At the gate...send a message and it's someone else's problem. Off the gate...send a message and it's someone else's problem. Airborne...send a message and it's someone else's problem. My flights are short enough that I'm going to my destination anyway. The one time as a Captain, I've had a pax removed (drunk guy), I didn't hear about it until after the fact...perfect! Either way, I'll be in the cockpit, searching for the end of the internet lol.

Just one of the many reasons flying freight is better than flying pax…

That's putting it lightly.

I think the OP should ask his soon to be T-1 IPs for their advice…

If you think they had a choice, you don't know much about Russia or Putin.

Babylon Bee crushes it again: https://babylonbee.com/news/navy-somehow-even-gayer

OP, in all honesty getting to a fighter from your current position is a pipe dream in today’s AF. I’ve watched -38 trained dudes that dropped bombers try their entire career to get into a fighter and still, despite how good of a bro/pilot they were, not be able to get a guard unit to hire them. You’re talking moving from T-1 trained to fighters. To be honest, your best option would be to DOR and see if a navy/marine reserve unit would hire you (although there might be a rule against that). I’m not trying to be harsh, I’m telling you the facts as I know them. However, you never know what the future will bring. When we start trading shots with China big blue may take anyone with a pulse to fighters. The previous advice of trying to go OA-1K is solid. Based on current timeline you might want to push for T-6 FAIP while that comes online (you’ll have to ask around about that). The key takeaway for you though is that if you don’t come to terms with the fact you’re most likely never going to be a fighter pilot and start focusing on the here and now, you’re screwed. The other guys have mentioned it, but no chach that walked into a heavy squadron telling everyone he shoulda been a fighter pilot ever got the opportunity to cross flow.

Dude, based on your SA, you shouldn’t be flying anything. Several of us posted your options, and you apparently didn’t bother to read any of them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

UPT student to his class: “I heard the term “echo chamber” the other day, does anyone know what that means?”

This is the best advice you’re going to get. I’ll also offer - do your best to love the one you’re with / bloom where you are planted. Once you start learning your mission set it becomes easier to become integrated with the community and enjoy the mission without looking back. Please don’t be the new guy who shows up day one telling everyone he doesn’t want to be there. It’s really hard to recover from that, and many communities even in the mobility world are quite proud. I am not saying you will do that but I’ve seen it rather often with young bucks. I was a 38 to mobility guy. At first I was pretty disappointed but I did my best to accept it and move on before I got to my first unit. If you do not like your mission, still knock it out of the park and there are many options to try something else.

Possible? Anything is possible but its incredibly rare and so unlikely its not worth planning a career out of it. In my 14 years AD they only had one crossflow window, that was only available to a very small audience of eligible pilots (based on their time on station, duration of PCS, years of service etc...) and they only selected an incredibly small number of people. The fighter community generally doesn't have an interest in taking crossflows and has found it has worked better for them to suffer undermanned than to deal with perceived cultural friction. There is probably some merit to some of this, a lot of the rest is probably ball wash, regardless, the AF has by and large decided it is not a good idea. Being a heavy pilot isn't all that bad. Its a pretty hefty pay raise when you account for all of the per diem dollars of being on the road constantly. You will lead earlier in your career because you will actually have enlisted aircrew hanging around the squadron. You will have a slightly easier time transitioning airlines as your experience is more relevant, dont need to worry about centerline thrust restrictions and that bullshit. You get to go to some cool places fighter dudes never see, like St John's. My best advice is to discount the possibility of crossflow for now because in the near term you have an incredibly important decision to make regarding the platforms that are available to you--and fighters aren't one of them. Whether crossflow happens again or not, your success in life is largely going to depend on your ability to fly the platform you earn out of UPT. So you should look at the mission sets that are available to you and decide what you find interesting, what you can see yourself doing long term. Read the airframe and mission thread and ask your IPs. Air Refueling, Airlift, C2ISR, SOF, etc.... they all have pros and cons.

Meh, I'd say it's a bit different than the personnelist who wants to sport his beard to fit in at the coffee shop. There really seems to be a strong infatuation with beards recently. I don't particularly hate them, but I get why the military/companies are against them. On another note, you guys see this dudes first duty assignment. Irakloin AB in Crete, probably not a bad place to chill for a first assignment.

Ppl believe what they want to believe. These days that tends to fall in line with their political affiliation. However, if you’re a college educated individual and you think the medical community has a firm grasp on exactly what long lasting side effects may or may not occur from a vaccine developed in 18 months, then I’d say you’re either extremely naive, don’t have a background in any kind of science, or haven’t seen a commercial for a drug that’s been out for 10 years that they’re still finding causes certain side effects. If your counter is, “well most side effects occur in the first X months.” Scoff. Its a risk analysis based on time and the number of ppl in the sample size, and currently from my perspective the time aspect is a significant factor. That aside, if the military wants me to get vaxxed, then make it mandatory and back that up with medical care for any long laying side effects. Prior to that don’t treat individuals as a pariah for waiting until the EUA is rescinded (like individuals on this board that are involved in ROTC..). The amount of ppl I saw get absolutely screwed by leadership for holding out while it was under EUA or that submitted exemptions is abhorrent. In 10 years if there are side effects for ppl that took the vax under EUA do you trust the DoD or the VA to take care of you, or do you expect them to show you the EUA fine print. This pandemic has revealed the true colors of a shockingly large number of individuals in positions of authority in the DoD. Turns out if you punish ppl for not violating any regs they lose all respect for you and wouldn’t follow you into warm water.

In 50 sorties you flew with 120-140 IPs? How many AT, 88, 89 sorties did you have?

just started reading "The Real Anthony Fauci"... that dude and his cronies need to be in JAIL

Everyone's the same color under IR

With the constant stream of bitching from this site with the force ran by straight white male fighter pilots, maybe it’s time to put the gay Jewish black chick tanker pilot in there. This is obviously satire. No way a Tanker pilot should be CSAF.

Again, great points that I agree with from both academic and personal experience. I'd offer though that the PACAF/CC is at least familiar with the airspace/basing/overflight issues in the region that will certainly affect the logistics air bridge. ACE is a logistics fight, so that may be the decider. So IMO, there's the calculus; regional Ops (pro) / regional Logistics (mid) vs. global Logistics (pro) / potential "1st Female Service Chief" (pro). Personally, the I sim'd/flew every Monday during the last non-bomber/fighter CSAF tenure so I wouldn't have to wear blues. Lt GKinnear is hoping history doesn't repeat itself.

mmkk111- To answer your questions: 1) It's during the brief and debrief (more so during the debrief). The IPs have no set ground training guide, so they just ask away. Hence, you need to be ready for any questions they throw at you. It's kind of standard practice for the IPs to ask a few questions to determine what subject you know the least on and then attack. 2) Like I said, the 12 hours is not one long study session, you have butt loads (STS) of stuff to do. Normally you have two flying events every day (flight, sims, etc) and sometimes three. There are also duty shifts to pull like RSU tours, SDO, door guard, the list goes on. So you actually don't have a whole bunch of free time. If you aren't scheduled during one of the three periods, you generally sit in the flight room and study. However, it's not like the Navy likes to think it is. You actually get very little study time during the day. However, if your class is not on formal release, you are allowed to leave until the next period. 3) Regarding your buddy, I think he's full of it. IMHO, AF training is much harder than Navy training. Went I went to Corpus, I found it ten times easier than Vance. I never missed the structured regimine that's for sure. PD

I don't think most of us who you would call "vax enthusiasts" were going "rah rah mandates are amazing, get your 69th booster or we're all gonna die." Can only speak personally but it was more of the sentiment that when you join the military you sign some of your autonomy away. They can literally order you to go die for your country. Last I checked that's bad for your health. So it's pretty silly to act surprised and upset when they make you get a shot. Not to mention, the "my body is a temple" argument doesn't hold much water when no one says shit about: -the even sketchier anthrax shot -the statistically unlikely to work yearly flu shots -the malaria pills that cause lasting risk of birth defects -the go and no go pills proven to cause dependency that are prescribed like candy to bump up mission durations stopgap the regular obliteration of your circadian rhythm -the culture of concealing actual problems from doctors to preserve flying status So forgive me if it came across a bit like a political crusade. But the fun part is now we all have the benefit of hindsight 20/20. We now know covid isn't particularly dangerous for unvaxxed healthy young people and we also know the vaxxed aren't dying in droves from some hypothetical late-onset side effect. Turns out neither were that dangerous.