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I think it doesn't matter. There's not an Olds or a Schwarzkopf waiting in the wings to assume CJCS. Any candidate will have the same recent history as CQB, or they wouldn't be in the running.

DoD Skillbridge is your friend.

The demise of the O'Club on Friday is something I miss. We used to have standard Friday stuff happening in the squadron... and around 1700 we would head to The Big House, meet the wives, and have a great time. The camaraderie among the wives was pretty high back then, as a result. They did some pretty funny shit and managed to avoid getting arrested on base. There were two years in a row when Hiram Walker sponsored an ACC Crud Tournament at D-M and the winners (Moody AFB) got a $10,000 check. It was absolutely epic. The D-M Wing CC gave the opening remarks and I was expecting the usual bullshit-cover-your-ass. Not so much. He pretty much said "fight's on" and have a great time... and still made 2-stars. I recall that every ACC base but one sent a team TDY the first year. I simply cannot imagine that happening in today's climate. Our Beale team didn't win, but we did show up to the bar at 0930 on Saturday and didn't depart until 0230 Sunday. What a weekend.

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just PM him politely and ask him to take a selfie...

Blonde or brunette? Hot? Sorry, just trying to paint a visual here

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On the flip side I was an E who banged two E’s, one accused me being a rapist after lying on a statement saying we never banged, court martialed, acquitted of being a rapist and found guilty of dereliction of duty X 2 for banging two E’s. Demoted two stripes and an LOR. Since the USAF was sour grapes I didn’t get a punitive discharge, they sent me to a discharge hearing and got separated at 16 years. I ran into one of the E’s a few years ago at Altus as a contractor. She quickly realized her Post-USAF aspirations of working for my company as a sim instructor were slim to nill as I’m a PM on the program. I await the passed over C-17 jerkoff virgin in here that follows me around this forum saying what a good thing it was I got booted.

Fooled around with an E when drunk (stupid, I know), turns out she had a history of cheating so when her husband (stupid, I know) got suspicious she claimed rape/sexual assault. Every single thing in the case pointed towards my story, to include when OSI wired her and had her try to get a confession from me, DNA evidence, every single witness testimony, a ton of pictures from that night showing her being very "friendly" with me, etc etc etc. It was $15,000 and a lot of stress for my family and friends, but I got more than paid back financially when the AF kicked me out with a $70k severance (no continuation offered) and I got to start at the airlines 2 years earlier than my UPT ADSC would have allowed. I also met my wife when they sent me to SOS at 9 years 3 months, the literal last week of eligibility, as some sort of consolation for being court martialed🤣. So things work out strange sometimes. I still owe you a reply in the Ukraine thread, but our union negotiations have my limited rhetorical attention span occupied at the moment.

This. Everytime I had an O-6 or above asking why my generation didn't want to stay in longer, I had to explain that I simply didn't have the same memories they had from their CGO years. It takes a lot of emotional attachment to the military to want to deal with the life of an FGO and above, and frankly, we didn't have that, especially in the heavy world. Instead, we had the all-men-are-rapists campaign, the great cleansing of 2012, RIFs from my second year at USAFA until the sudden reversal in 2015, 0-0-1-3 and literal article 15s for shenanigans that were tame compared to the stories the O-6 writing the Art15 would tell in private, blah blah blah. Never mind the two-months-on two-months-off deployments to the Died that guys would do for years because the AF decided that trickfucking the 90 day flying hours restrictions was more important than any sort of balanced family life, or the camaraderie built from deploying as a squadron. Ironically, after I was court martialed (not guilty all charges) it *improved* my Air Force experience. I was immediately relieved of all the non-flying nonsense that they make you do to chase down the next promotion. I would have done anything to get "back on the path," but they were done with me, and boy when you start producing the quality of work that you would expect from someone who has been guaranteed to be passed over, they stop giving you work to do. If the AF wants to improve retention they need to accept that young people who want to kill people for their country have a lot of energy to burn in unsavory ways. Fail to provide that and they will not serve for another 10-20 years off the inertia of great memories and personal connections. Those people will in turn help recruiting.

Anybody else watch the congressional hearing and now wanting an invite to this closed door session that Grusch is going to spill all in? Show me the aliens bro.

Never met fighter pilots eh?

About damn time. It never made sense to me that only Democrats were allowed to let women drown in their car upside down in rivers while they stumbled home drunk. I feel sorry for you. You made politics personal when the people who you are defending couldn't possibly have less regard for you. They don't despise you, but that's only because they don't want to know that you exist in the first place. They just need you to keep feeding from the limitless tap of outrage so that you can fight their war for them. And yes, of course the right does this as well. You'll get over it one day. They'll make a promise that actually matters to you, and when it isn't kept the illusion will crumble. Until then, they will rely on you steadfastly ignoring any source that doesn't already agree with their position. As long as they are getting rich, and you are not.

Definitely doesn't have anything to do with telling people they are born racist, gender doesn't exist, and their kids should get hormone treatment without parental knowledge or consent. A couple decades of that nonsense will raise the hackles. All while the untrained son of the vice president blackmails Chinese Nationals with threats of his father's retribution if he isn't paid a lot of money, while people like you insist that not only is there nothing wrong with that, but you surely wouldn't have cared if the last president did that. To those of us who can see your basic and generally boring political hypocrisy, it's just obnoxious. But to everyone else it's maddening, and now they are acting mad. Democrats took for granted for decades that Republicans would never act as unhinged and insane as they acted anytime they didn't get their way. Republicans have since started acting and unhinged and insane, and the liberals are not liking the taste of their medicine.

Given the performance and focus of the current CJCS and SecDef, it shouldn't get any worse (but it still will!)... Brown falls right in line with the "progressive" movement in the DoD, just as the CNO nomination and "Admiral" Levine... Bottom line: It doesn't matter what we think.

From what I've seen, the Air Force doesn't care what anyone at a UPT base has to say about training unless it saves them money. See UPT 2.5 and retiring the T-1 while still keeping OBOGS related T-6 tails flying after a hypoxia event.

Has anybody been fired or held accountable for this foolishness? https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39945/the-air-force-spent-134m-to-repair-39-hail-damaged-t-1-jet-trainers-its-about-to-retire For a jet worth under $1M. Unsat.

My feeling is that nowadays no waivers are entertained at any level bc they gotta pump those numbers up. However, it doesn’t hurt to ask with a good story!

Same time?

You will be denied by a civilian at AFPC within 3 days of asking unless you have unusual circumstances dictating a closer examination.

Better quality of life (paternity leave is one example). Better pay. Housing and dorms vastly improved from when I lived in the barracks. No sequestration of flight hours. Parts that are actually available. JFIRE and JCAS being incorporated across all branches vs individual branches having their own CAS methods. That’s an example from admin, ops, and tactics. I can keep going. I laugh when people say ‘what’s better than 10-20 years ago’. My dad enlisted in the late 70s, he said he got slapped around. I enlisted in the late 90s, didn’t get hit but we lived in moldy ass barracks and had no hot water. Kids these days think it sucks they have to field day the barracks. Life was always ‘better 10-20 years ago’. When people say that I ask them to actually, seriously, look at what was going on then versus now.

I think that the real issue is that kids today just don’t have any idea who Doug Masters was or what he did for his family and country. Obviously we need a refreshed Iron Eagle movie to appeal to these youngins. Make Samuel L Jackson the new Chappie.

Gonna try and help this back and forth and maybe I’m wrong, but I think what @joe1234 is trying to say is that you can talk about your awesome experiences all you want (and everyone on this forum agrees) but this new generation doesn’t care about what you thought were awesome experiences. An exaggerated example would be…you thought doing strafing runs and saving dudes fighting on the ground was the most rewarding thing ever (and again we would all agree), but this new generation seemingly does not give a shit about that and would rather be learning something new about programming or developing software or something like that. During my time working with ROTC I was shocked at how little people actually wanted to fly, I figured there would be 100 kids fighting for pilot slots but that just isn’t the case. I’m actually shocked at how many people I fly with at the airlines that have absolutely no interest in military flying or ever had any interest in anything military in general. So targeting the kids with your experiences might not work anyways I hope that was the point Joe was trying to make before it got lost in translation. I do think we have to be honest in understanding what kids are wanting out of service but also we can’t reshape our service too much.

If you follow GA and racing you may know Mike Patey who has helped develop a lot of new tech the past few years building experimental airplanes. He recently built the fastest single engine turbine when he put a PT-6 on a Lancair Legacy creating a new plane he calls the Turbulence. He was flying the Turbulence to Oshkosh and was about 200 miles west his PT-6 blew apart at 441 Knots in his at FL 220. Video below covers the deadstick and post flight walk around of his plane (frag damage to wing and tail).

If you go 11H Co Pilot: Congrats you have huge nuts!!! Now...Dont hit powerlines, or fly directly into a mountain. Use your GD radar altimeter dumbass! Admit if you dont see something. Speak up if a target is moving and its not suppossed to be. Just because you're settling with power, doesn't mean you stop flying the aircraft, same with loss of tail rotor effectiveness. Once again, watch out for powerlines, towers and mountains. Don't continue flying into an updraft taking us into wx, lower the collective. No, we will never have rockets again on USAF helicopters. I don't like it any better than you do lol. Sorry, nothing directed towards you amigo. Lol. Oh yeah, you will be the red headed stepchild in the USAF aviation community until people need you. Lol. Nomatter what type of helo you fly. Not sure about CVs though? I dont trust those dudes /s. They fly faster than 200 knots. They cant be true giant nutted mouth breathers at that speed, too much air to the face. Edit: Most chicks dont consider you cool. You're kinda around the garbage collector scale on both smell and respect amongst your fixed winged peers in the aviation world, but my God a pair of tittes looks spectacular at ten feet.. on the other hand, girls at the beach and lake appreciate your service!!! Especially the drunk ones.

Bashi identifies as non-binary you bigot

Remember when progressives on here said that the covid shot was a readiness issue…oh that was funny. Good times.

Dude, the reason the few of you "moved on with" your lives instead of talking about that absolute fiasco after the fact, is because you were dead ing wrong after screaming at the top of your lungs of how righteous you were. Instead of admitting that your side was full of arrogant charlatans and trying to figure out how to ensure such a up doesn't occur in the near future, you high-tailed as fast as possible to save face. You deserve to be "dunked" on. A lot. It was a massive stain on modern society with long-lasting detrimental 1st and 2nd order effects. Also, are these dubious press outfits (who latch onto reports that further excoriate the people who demanded others get the vaccine) somehow worse than the ones who went off 24/7 for nearly 2 years about how the world was basically ending and everyone needed to trust the science? GTFOH

Bullshit. I’ve was in the Squadron when Rich launched this forum back around 2001. I’ve been moderator and Admin here. It’s always been the same: good threads, some threads, sport bitching and arguing. It’s never been any different. Remember the Rainman days or the CannonCrashPad/RickRynearson days? Same drama, different time. Therr have been literally dozens of people who have proclaimed the forum was dead. It’s still here, they’re gone.

Because most people got vaccinated, and it's not worth arguing with the holdouts. Along with the covid strains getting more mild, so there's a lot less urgency.

I sure hope so. I deserve the extra money that another star would provide. I will say this: for all of you complainers out there: seriously? You are complaining Uncle Sam took away your pittance $50K/yr to sign your life away for the next 12 years? Get over yourselves you premadonna punks! Get out of my Air Force and go make your money elsewhere. We don’t need you, and we don’t want you. But please, for the love of Pete, stop complaining about missing out on table scraps. It’s so unbecoming of an officer.

Here's some proof.

Air Force JROTC has a full ride PPL scholarship with no obligation incurred and yet in the three years I've been teaching it, I've only had 5 out of 250+ cadets apply. I would have killed for an opportunity like that when I was in high school...

Lol, I am moderated indefinitely by HeloDude, so this will be my last post. I posted on this thread specifically to show the ridiculousness of this forum. Anybody with common decency who isn't part of the far right should disagree with MTG's shock tactics and disgusting behavior within the US Congress. The fact that none of the regulars on this forum will concede this point is indicative of the Republican Party's rapid ethical degradation. The Republican Party has death spiraled into a party that no longer represents true conservatism. The twisted version of conservatism that MTG, Boebert, Gaetz, Trump, and several others represent has nothing to do with traditional values and institutions. Republicans are electing people who rape, cheat, and perform actions in Congress that continue to erode the dignity of the US Government. Hunter Biden is not an elected official. He does not represent the Democratic Party in any official capacity, yet he has been the target of Republicans for five years. Even after he took a plea deal, Republicans continue to obsess over him. Republicans then celebrate the public display of his nude photos, and MTG even sent them via e-mail to her constituents. None of you see anything wrong with that? If someone is suspected of crimes (not even charged), then it is now OK to show their nude photos to the entire public within the US Congress and via e-mail? That type of worldview is insane. Republicans hate Hunter Biden so much they are gleeful when humiliating him over and over again. This is what "highly educated and highly trained professional pilots and navigators" like to see in their politics? If this forum is representative of U.S. Air Force rated officers, then I weep for the future of any diverse officers who find themselves under the command of a far right lunatic.

Just doing a little reading. 20 July - Grassley released the FBI memo regarding the foreign bribery scheme. Three of the people mentioned are: the CHS (Confidential Human Source) Zlochevsky - Burisma CEO who claims to have text messages and proof of bribery. Ostapenko - Works in the Zelensky administration, connected the source and Zlochevsky. All three were associates working together. Sources are now claiming that Zelensky, through Ostapenko, has had possession of all information and materials related to the bribery scheme. Zelensky became president in 2019. Biden in 2020. In September 2020, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved Ukraine's new National Security Strategy, which provides for the development of the distinctive partnership with NATO with the aim of membership in NATO. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_37750.htm Jan 25, 2021 - The Biden administration immediately began spending billions on Ukraine - all before the invasion. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/biden-has-proven-track-record-ukraine-what-can-we-expect-his-administration Coincidence? What would you do if you were a foreign leader with proof of crimes committed by the current US presidential administration?

Conservative Group Urges Senators to Vote ‘No’ on Gen. CQ Brown for Joint Chiefs Chairman https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/25/conservative-group-urges-senators-to-vote-no-on-gen-cq-brown-for-joint-chiefs-chairman/ From my knowledge of him prior to the last year or so, he (Brown) seemed fairly benign and reasonable but I despise anything woke so I have doubts now What does this forum think? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk