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That sucks you got banned from Delta @Biff_T!

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-u-2-dragon-lady-as-you-have-never-seen-it-before some great shots and a cool story

Slife is one of two in AFOSC that provide slamdunk proof the supposed USAF interest in climate and culture is nothing but lip service. He is a well known narcissistic megalomaniac. Many believe he is on the spectrum and it manifests in the way he treats people including his wife. At a commander's event at his house his wife said something he didn't like so he took her down the hall and verbally ripped her in a tone and volume that the officers under his command could clearly hear. I should be shocked that nothing came of that...but alas I am not given the dysfunction in AFSOC. His command philosophy was summed up to me by another three star...when it comes to Jim there are "DOJ's" (Disciples of Jim), and Clydesdale. If he picks you as a DOJ you will be cared for and protected. If you are a Clydesdale you are expected to work and pull the wagon until you fall over dead. On a CSB he argued we should not put Lt Col's on the Eagle list unless they were BPZ...yes his metric for command was being below the zone. He did it again for the O-6 CSB and argued against making Farrell the OG at Cannon because he was an on time guy and would never be a GO. For the record Farrell was just nominated for his third star. There are so many other incidents and stories but it doesn't matter. Evil prevailed and sadly a lot of damage will be done.

To me he was like Emperor Palpatine. It's not that he wasn't smart, capable, committed, etc. It's just the small problem that he was evil 😂

He’s definitely not well liked/thought of by the majority of AFSOC.

if they ever get the internet they're gonna be pissed

Don’t worry about not having the flying credentials of your peers….the USAF doesn’t care much about your actual flying resume. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Preview of confirmation hearing:

HAHA! I didn’t notice anyone else was in the room, but that is a case of pinkeye that I’d be super proud of.

@O Face Thanks kindly sir, you are a gentleman. Hat's tipped and monocle wink. On another note. Take a look at Clooney's face in this scene. She just crop dusted him and he loved it. 😆 @HossHarris , @brabus. I'm still pissed about this. It was total BS, it covered more of my face than those granny panties i typically wore. My attorneys are fighting Mr. Bastian about this one. It's still not over. Until then, I'll bum rides with NK, they let me wear/do pretty much anything i want.

Personally I wouldn’t kill yourself running the rat race. Be a good bro, work your ass off to become a solid IP, and let the chips fall where they may (and enjoy the thing I assume you did this all for - flying airplanes). Then get out ASAP and go to the guard.

One eyed pilot safely lands hate box glider in the mud I can only guess that @HuggyU2 was the right seat IP on this one. …meanwhile, all the c-130 guys respond: ‘ok, he did it with one eye…so call it a Q1 with 2 downgrades: t-storm avoidance and centerline control’

No risk Boomer6, I totally understand your thoughts and evaluation. And I agree that TCU was not ready, even before the incident, for Colorado. Still, young people are often easily influenced by events occurring around them. Anyway, my second wife thinks TCU was/is over rated from last year. She's my "Sporty Girl", as her daughter's husband was drafted in 1998 and played 2 years. I just listen and watch.

Fuck Liberty Safes on principle, but also no matter how I have my guns stored, the gov will get them in a “fuck your house up” style raid. Now the ones that aren’t in the house…good luck fuckers!

Just for you brother - I’d let you take the bottoms, and I’d wrap those sweet DD, Covid-proof, cannonball containers around my head all day. I’d like to have 2 weeks in attempt to flatten her curves.

New Vice Chief: Slife Nominated for USAF’s No. 2 Job (airandspaceforces.com) Saw this in the morning news blast

Honestly who cares. Individuals can do whatever they want WRT masks, vax, etc. If anything, the masks serve as a high probable ID criteria for all the idiots out there who haven’t learned a damn thing in the last 3.69 years.

for some context, A&W's 1/3 lb burger failed because Americans thought it was smaller than the 1/4 lb burger

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled”

What happened to the Salma tit talk?

I wrote their "newspaper" editors. No reply.

Not Friday, but a worthwhile read. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3515972/biden-awards-medal-of-honor-to-pilot-who-rescued-soldiers-during-vietnam-war/ "On the night of June 18, 1968, near the hamlet of Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam, then-Army 1st Lt. Taylor was flying an AH1-G Cobra attack helicopter when he received a radio call for help.."

Please tell me this is you Chang...yeah, the guy who said stop hiring white men because you all think alike.

In fairness, I bet I'd get the same response if I asked my squadron full of Viper drivers what VNE is. The general aviation flyers would probably get it lol. But ya, that bloke looks like a Sheila!

Plenty of pussies though *ba dum tss*

When I read "flew F-16s, then deployed in helicopters" (assuming that part is true)...what I hear is "washed out of F-16 B-course and got reassigned to helos".

They did for the O-4 boards. It's unmasked, but we were assured over and over that it wouldn't affect the results. Most of the pilots I know don't have anything beyond a bachelor's, so I'm not sure how much it will affect the results of the board. However, I don't like seeing these Lts and young Captains scrambling to start a Master's degree when they should be focusing on being great copilots and officers.

Did they re-unmask AAD on O-4 and O-5 boards? Guess it’s been about long enough for the pendulum to swing back the other way

The Air Force doesn’t really have a pilot shortage, it has a rated staff shortage…as well as a rated 0-6s qualified for Gp and Wing/CC shortage. Once one connects those dots then everything else, to include your statistics, makes sense.

I did have a wing/cc once who said everyone who gets an incentive ride will shadow the entire 12 hr day prior for mission planning, etc. And on execution day would be there the entire 12 hr day. For all the time they couldn’t be with the pilots due to lack of vault access, they would shadow the SARMs, AFE, go out on the flight line with MX, etc. 2x 12 hr “average days” was a massive eye opener for everyone who went through.

Another example of the frozen middle, in my opinion. The GO’s are pushing ACE, empowering junior Airmen, etc and then young bucks want to run with it, but they get stymied with the aforementioned crap. I hate it and personally have never bought into the narrative that support functions are so inept and only aviators are worth a crap. It’s nature vs. nurture where as young pilots you’re constantly bludgeoned to make decisions, be the HMFIC, meritocracy via performance with assignments, etc. Support O’s are told to follow regulations and not fuck up, all while in a very resource constrained environment. It’s going to produce different outcomes. Ive always been a fan of the Marines TBS. I don’t think the AF needs to go that extreme, but even something cheesy showing how a days frag is filled in a combat environment and how all the various pieces tie together. Get the young Finance O out on the flight line for a day helping the hydro guys in an MC-130 in 100° heat for 12 hours and that’ll help contextualize why pay issues are important. Have the rated guy go around with a CE crew fixing random shit and how they prioritize while under strength in personnel to fix what will help launch those sorties etc. And don’t make it ASBC 2.0

Can this internal review help shrink the Air Force’s pilot shortage? “Do all the pilot positions we have on staff actually require a pilot, or does it require someone with operational expertise?” Brown said. Slife the non-combat knife now doing extreme damage to the Air Force Writ large instead of just AFSOC. I know most pilots don't want to go to a staff job, sitting at a desk especially in the five sided wind tunnel can be pure drudgery. HOWEVER, if we don't put pilots, especially seasoned experts who know what it is like in those key staff positions, then the REMFs will make decisions about the equipment you get and how you operate. It is always good to look at resource allocation--especially the expensive ones--but airmanship and the ability to speak like an operational airmen does not come easily. It takes years to develop. The Air Force has evaluated where they needed pilots/operators in the past, and it has been to its severe detriment. Here are some examples: 1. ALOs--We first removed fighter pilots/WSOs from the ASOS communities, then pretended we could advise Army leadership on the best use of Airpower. The result has been an Air Liaison community with no tactical airborne experience, no real weaponeering ability, and an Army that dismisses their advice even more than before. 2. Staffs-- Air Force first used retired pilot/WSO contractors to fill positions, but is now even using engineers, program managers, and others who, while probably competent on many levels, have no business speaking about Airpower capabilities, selling Airpower capabilities, and funding the same. Many decisions are now made by Airmen who have only learned about Airpower through schooling and relative proximity. 3. Inexpensive yet relevant platforms--when we killed all of the Tactical Air Support Squadrons with their OV-10s/O-2, we killed a great pilot absorption capability, a great way to season aviators for pennies. The aircraft's tactical relevance diminished by the day, but their operational/strategic value was immense. Yes, we cut the pilot requirement down, but hurt even more the pilot creation capability. and the overall Airmanship of the Air Force. There is a reason why pilots run the Air Force, why WSOs/CSOs exercise a great operational influence over the direction of the Air Force. Not because of the universal management badge of wings, but because IT IS WHAT THE AIR FORCE DOES. Many have been the companies that have lost their ways as they turned the reigns over to CFOs and Program Managers...Just ask Boeing. Again, I know most of you clowns don't want to do a staff job, it is a necessary evil. If we don't put people who know what it is like to fling themselves into the air in a metal frame full of fuel and munitions and take said crate into combat, then the contracting officer who was CGO of the year for leading the savings bond drive is going to determine your future.