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FAIPing, while not nearly as bad a dick punch as drones, causes very similar resentment and near-universal 10 yr ADSC punch outs. Join the AF to fly jets and see the world! Or alternatively.. Spend the first 5 years of your career flying around the flagpole in one of the 4 sh!ttiest towns in the country, probably single too! Experience the best squadron, group, and wing leaders their respective MWS communities didn't want to keep for themselves! Get strung along in a 4 year rat race with your friends who were all also better than average in UPT only to get a drop list measurably worse than average! Then finally show up to your MWS as a senior captain to get immediately relegated to queep centric jobs because your tactical knowledge/experience is far behind pipeline dudes in your age group. But one time a FAIP became a general so it's probably an honor and an amazing opportunity

Hey everyone in AFSOC, Delta desires to hire 200/mo “for the foreseeable future” (AA and UAL probably have the same goal). GTFO if you can.

This can't be understated. FAIPing is a disservice all the way around. Most make the best of it, but FAIPs simply should not exist.

My opinion only— AFSOC has an unusual internal power dynamic due to unique COMREL creating distinct officer cultures with different career incentives. AFSOC has two masters: Big Blue and SOCOM. The more senior you get, the more difficult to serve both and you eventually pick your tribe. SOCOM is harder to compete for senior leadership and requires combat credibility in an officers pedigree. Big AF is easier and doesn’t require multiple forward tours. Currently the Big AF inclined officers are leading AFSOC & the current MAJCOM/CC has to overcompensate for his lack of combat credibility; thus he finds Big-AF type endeavors to champion and shuns anything (and anyone) who is of the warrior tribe within AFSOC.

Here ya go.

On a healthcare note, took Tricare a month to approve me to see a PT…after going to the ER and being unable to do much physical activity (including flying) this whole time. Govt healthcare is so great, why doesn’t everyone want it?! Also, SS is theft…there needs to be a completely new “social safety net” developed.

More and more, what decides who moves up in the AF is about who is willing to stick around, kiss the ring, put up with the abuse, and accept life/family thrash. So it's really a self-selecting pool. Majcoms that subject their people to high amounts of life thrash and abuse will naturally elevate the people willing to put up with it. And those people once in power will, in turn, inflict it on others.

This is what happens when you have non operators running the A1 echelons.

The USAF pulled a boomer move and said “Well, that sucks, I got mine. Needs of the service” and completely left out the fact these kids had a dream they’d be working hard towards for years. Then they wonder why people vote with their feet and leave.

If only it were that simple. These things are very often tied to congress and getting promotion approval through committee. This year, our congress is virtually incapacitated by it's own doing. Hell, some of our Senators are actually physically incapacitated yet are still somehow making decisions that direct our nation. They can't even figure out how to keep functioning as an organization. Good luck getting anything so proletariat as a military officer promotion list authorization out of them. It's not like our military can go on strike or stop showing up to work. All the while, the AF gets stuck holding the bag, and god save you if you blame the person who isn't doing their job for not doing their job.

"I said two engines, not one you incompetent son of a bitch!!! And now you have to do air to ground stuff. I'm leaving you for an Eagle driver" - Wife (more than likley a trans wife lol) of husband who dropped Vipers. Lol. Something like that I imagine.

Didn't always used to be this way. For most of my career in AFSOC I've had good to excellent leadership up through the Wing level at the locations I was stationed. Like a lot of things, it's a sine wave. I will say the last 3-4 years I feel like things have been on a downward track. Several great O-6s and generals have gotten out instead of continuing to deal with the thrash like Pooter alluded to. The previous AFSOC/CC's habit of placing STS guys in flying leadership billets at the Grp and Wing hasn't helped. DEI focus in one specific case really hasn't helped. Everyone in the HQ is cowed by the current CC and he's been off the chain in his first 6 months in command/no one is willing to tell him when he has no clothes on, reference the "returning to standards MFR" involving open ranks inspections, sq PT 3-4 times a week, and vastly increased urinalysis. Rough times ahead.

I was there around the same time. The last “good drop” before the UAVs/U-28s and NSAs became 90% of the drop, had all fighters with 2 FAIPs and a BUFF. I remember some guy getting pissed he got dropped F-16s and his wife losing her $hit on him and calling him a failure for not dropping Eagles… good times. Then the very next drop was the most miserable gut punch to everyone there. Why they even had an assignment night, I’ll never know. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

This country is over 31 thousand billions in debt. It’s not money anymore. It’s just zeros and decimal point somewhere in a number.

It’s the same few toxic leaders who were wing and group commanders 15 years ago. They just happen to have stars now.

Speaking of one 😂

It's a hilarious Air Force non-solution to a problem they created.. you could just release the list and still have the Maj selects close out on the Capt SCOD date. The Capt SCOD is before the fiscal year ends so no one will have pinned on yet anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️ literally the end result is the same without keeping everyone in limbo. I don't know what I expected to happen, big AF has a knack for choosing the dumbest possible COAs

In the latest installment of how one acidic general officer can ruin a command...I present Unit PT and....Open Ranks Inspections...coming soon to an AFSOC near you!

Thanks for your back end service.

Uh-oh. Hopefully this illness doesn't go viral. I've heard it results in brain hemorrhages roughly 9mm in size.

Pure political theater on all sides. We will not default. There will be a last minute deal and both sides will claim victory. Despite what they want you to believe, neither side is serious about reducing deficit spending & that won’t change anytime soon. Until we seriously address social security and Medicare, we aren’t making a dent. We could cut all other discretionary spending and we’d still be deep in the hole.

There's a whole industry of civil-rights groups and individuals who, after winning the war against racism, have realized they aren't able to/interested in finding a new job. So now they must create work for themselves. It's pretty transparent, but there's a lot of inertia in that world, so they are still able to squeeze out a (big) paycheck with increasingly absurd accusations.

Ah yes! The glorious liberation of Pro Freedom Peoples Republic of Belgorod! It is wonderful that heavy weapons for this spontaneous uprising were locally obtained and available at local military surplus stores! Any Ukrainians who might happen to be in the area are there on vacation purely of their own free will. If you really think about it, it makes sense for them to seek independence from Moscow since Belgorod was historically never actually a part of Russia, but ended up there as a result of the post-Soviet breakup. This message happily brought to you by the Little Green Legion. 🇺🇦

Gonna get weird(er) in Mother Russia as dissent of any kind dies / flees from a tightening spiral Russia in 5 years if Putin is still alive will be North Korea on steroids while smoking meth, nukes and advanced capes for sale plus oil money and a cult of personality around a human incarnation of Palpatine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

April 19th, and April 26th the year before, and February something in 2020. As soon as it's signed, they'll post it, and I'm checking every day lol. Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

Biden said he has done his part. He doesn’t think he deserves any blame should the US default. So there’s that.

Playing sports is just good all around. Sure it'll help foster that "winning attitude," but it'll also help you w/ hand-eye coordination (some sports more than others), maybe you need to learn to work on a team better, whatever. But college sports is a different animal. I played intramural stuff and just pick up games for fun, but didn't play actual NCAA sports or something. It's very hard to do school, ROTC and play a Div I/II sport. If you can do it, more power to you, but very few are able to. Back when I started college, I may have been able to play baseball had I stuck w/ it, but it was going to be way too much to play baseball, get a degree, do ROTC and still have time to do the outdoor stuff I loved to do. While I like baseball, the time commitment just wasn't worth it to me...I went to college/did ROTC so I could get a commission and fly, that was my main goal, so I did what I thought was best to help that goal along. BL: If you're thinking playing a college sport is somehow going to drastically help you become a fighter pilot, it's not. Skills and mindsets that make a good player and a fighter pilot down the line (referring to the dudes in your book) were most likely developed before playing a college sport. When it comes to flying, you either have the drive or you don't, you either have the hands or you don't...whether you played football in college has little if nothing to do w/ UPT or flying in general (w/ the small exception if you had no drive and football gave it to you or something...but that's a little out there).

The first drop I witnessed at SPS in 2008 was 5 x UAV, 5 x U-28/PC-12, a FAIP, a BUFF, and a Strike Eagle. Wild times.