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Okay guys to technically the definition of middle is “the point of position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something”, therefore with 31 days in January the middle of the month is 15 and that means the 16-31 qualify as late January. Assuming that nothing is coming out today & with only 9 duty days left in the month that leaves us with an 11.11111111111111% chance that results will come out each an every day, and 100% chance that results will come out by 31 Jan. 🫡

the left are what they accuse you of. they are the true extremists and threats to democracy.

She was just interviewed on Fox. To her credit she clarified she’s a pilot select and honestly she sounds like she’s got her shit together. Could be far worse advocates for the Air Force that are in the public eye. I think she’ll do well down the road.

239 unread messages? Dude.

Spirit: “…so you’re saying there’s a chance!”

Based off of the “track selects and assignment nights” thread on this site, looks like there were some recently!

Bold to assume a 0% chance of them delaying past January for any reason at all

I will accept any and all unsubstantiated rumors that give me hope

bro you're overthinking it drops change on a whim. less is more.

I can’t believe they just ignored you like that. I vote you should have the privilege tomorrow of getting our hopes up with a new rumor. 😂

Slap a good tiger striped camo on that and you're set.

I have a set of sweetheart grips on my Springfield G.I. M1911A1 with Carole Landis on them. When I bought them, I was looking for a picture of a "girl next door" type from the 1940s, and thought she fit the bill! She was an angel who left this earth far too soon!

No shit. People turn into idiots around large fast spinny things.

Purchased a M1911A1 45 ACP clone by TISAS. Forged upper and lower, great deal for under $500. Also snagged an original 1911 holster manufactured between 1917 and 1919. Here is a comparison of it next to an actual GI issue purchased from the CMP.

I haven't been following it closely, but this administration is against mergers. As far as I've seen, strong economies induce liberals leadership, and modern liberalism distrusts business. So without huge concessions, I'd be surprised. It's not just airlines, the Adobe/Figma merger was blocked for no logical reason. So we'll just have to see

The psychology of emotional investment in this conflict is as bizarre to me as professional sports enthusiasm, but far more perverse.

You're correct. You can turn it down one time and still reapply. If you turn it down twice you can't. And if you turn it down and now need an age waiver to reapply, that makes it a little more difficult.

You can turn it down - last years PSDM gives an example of the verbiage to use and route to AFPC

I'm a visual learner so I would draw the entire airspace and then I would draw my sortie profile with radio calls, frequency changes, climbs, descents, pitch and power settings all on the map exactly where I needed to make them. This was my version of chair-flying. Example attached. After you debrief, draw a better more detailed picture for next time. Repeat.

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Just being selected. I used the EFMP trick to find out where I was going after a couple weeks and then about a month and a half later I got my official assignment notification.

I know last year the initial word was just selection or not, then a week or two later they found out what base and when.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-kc-135-stratotanker-crew-crossed-vietnam-dmz-and-went-into-a-dive-to-refuel-a-flamed-out-f-105-thunderchief/

Being an Instructor in AETC will do that to you. 🤷🏼‍♂️

A buddy of mine got selected last year. He is currently at UPT. His neighbor is the wing exec and she discussed it with him. I wouldn’t have texted my wing exec, and my sq cc if I didn’t believe him. I have no reason to believe that this guy would ever lie to me.

I studied stuff ahead of arriving to UPT. Our Det had a Tweet - 1 and I got a copy. The internet was really becoming a thing and AF pubs were posted on the line. Lastly, I called the local copy shop in Del Rio and asked them to make me a copy of everything they had on file for UPT and mail it. So I read a lot before showing up, plus I arrived to UPT a few weeks early. All this meant I could spend more time on chair flying, understanding the pattern, etc. and a little less on the GK/book stuff. Mind you having not gone thru UPT, some of the stuff didn't make sense, but I knew what to memorize. Someone else is flying, so listen in on the brief/debrief. Do stuff with other studs. It's not like a school dance where you're shy to ask someone on the dance floor.

Everyone already hit the nail on the head. Biggest thing for me, and what I usually preach to everyone, all nighters dont work, and when you're tired, stop studying. You dont retain information when you're tired, theres no point in going on. Especially the night before a test/checkride. If you dont know something by 10pm the night before, you arent going to learn it. Give your brain a rest, and you'll retain what you know that much better. I always made it a point to just relax for a few hours before bed, the night before a checkride. Theres so much information to absorb there, and you can only learn so much. Knowing where to find things is sometimes more important than the information itself. Do what works for you. We had guys who just read stuff once and it stuck, others made thousands of quizlet cards (this dude was the real bro of the flight), others who hand wrote flash cards. Everyone is different man. We'd quiz each other on road trips to Austin or wherever we were going.

Listen to other briefs/debriefs. Walk around the fake pattern and practice radio calls(walking/talking/chewing gum) and thinking through pitch/power helps more than you’d think. Speak to your sister flight and see what they’ve learned. Go to the auditorium and study without distractions. Have fvcking fun!

Vance 18-05, great idea on this one.

You think the winner of Miss America in this era is based on looks? There's a minimum physical threshold, sure, but after that it's just another organization run by out-of-touch elites desperate to show their "peers" how virtuous they are by "dismantling" their organizations as sacrifices to the non-binary gods of wokism.

UPT was a while back for me, but I think the basics of taming the fire hose still apply. For me, the most important thing was repetition. Studying written/classroom material, learning procedures, boldface, instrument approaches, contact flying, etc. need to be ingrained to the point that minimal effort is required to recall and use the information. I will say, if you've gotten to the point that you have a college degree and a USAF commission and you don't know how YOU study written material and info delivered in a classroom, I don't think UPT is the place you're suddenly going to figure that out. For me, reading the source material prior to class was key. Notes taken in class can then be correlated with what you've already seen at least once during your reading. If possible, I would then go back and re-copy my notes (cuz I write like shit when I'm trying to follow along in class). This would allow me to cross-check the gouge and source material with what I wrote down in class and make sure the info in my notes is accurate and also allows me to see it all again. Now at least my notes are something I created that I'm familiar with and can be used to study from later. Take advantage of any free time during duty hours to sit down with another student pilot and quiz each other on the rote memorization that is required of everyone. Repetition. IFR rules for clearance limits, min enroute altitudes, holding entries/airspeeds, etc. all will come more easily the more you go over them. Boldface has to become like breathing. However, there's a secondary part of learning boldface that often gets neglected. It's one thing to be able to write them and say them without error. It's another thing altogether to be able to actually complete them in the cockpit. Once you've got the BF memorized, start making your regular pattern of repetition include sitting in a cockpit trainer or even just a paper cockpit and actually reaching for the switches and performing the steps. You're not memorizing BF just to fill a square. That shit is going to save your aircraft and maybe your life. Wind the clock, slow down to get it right and know exactly what each step of the BF is going to require you to do in the cockpit. Prepare for EVERY mission by chair flying it from stepping to the jet until you're back in the squadron. The more you think through every aspect of the mission at zero knots the less you'll have to think about it when you're actually flying. There aren't enough sorties and simulator periods in the syllabus for the luxury of only trying to master everything you need to while you're actually in those training devices. Go through the steps required of you on every mission from the walk-around, cockpit set-up, checklists, engine start, taxi, takeoff, radio calls, setting up maneuvers and entry parameters, instrument set up for approaches, etc. If you have to sit in front of a paper cockpit set-up in your room with some kind of stick and throttle substitute in your hand, then do that. If you can close your eyes and visualize what you need to, then do that. Radio calls you make at the same point with the same information in them on every sortie should require zero effort. Controls actuated and procedures necessary to accomplish a touch and go, closed pattern and another VFR approach off the perch should have no pause to think about what comes next when you're in the moment flying the jet. The bottom line is that if you wait until you're doing 200-500 knots with air under your ass in the pattern, working area or on an approach to think about these basics that are going to happen on every sortie, you probably won't have enough extra brain cells to deal with the new stuff you're trying to learn or any other curve balls that Murphy might throw at you on any given day. Repetition is your friend. Seeing a trend yet? Most of all - enjoy yourself. UPT was one of the best experiences of my life. If it's not, then in my opinion, you're doing it wrong. There's never going to be another time in your USAF career when all that is expected of you is to live, eat and breath flying, show up on time prepared with a good attitude and get paid to do one of the coolest, most challenging jobs on the planet. You will make yourself miserable if you constantly stress about your performance. The more prepared you are, the less pressure you will experience. Don't worry about class rankings or trying to be #1 and help out your bros. If you help your classmates get better, you'll probably make yourself better in the process. The rankings will be what they'll be. If you're a solo dick out for yourself that's probably going to back-fire. It's pretty hard to be that way for a year without people who matter noticing. Use Friday night and some of Saturday to blow off some steam and lower the stress level (whatever that looks like for you). Depending on what's coming, maybe spend some time Saturday in the books and for sure get back to it on Sunday so you're prepared for the next week. Know your weaknesses and do what's necessary to minimize them. I didn't want to deal with distractions. I didn't have a TV, I lived on base and until my T-37 cross-country I slept in my Q-room every night from the first day I set foot on the base to start UPT. Maybe that seems a bit extreme, but it goes by fast and the results you produce will stick with you for life. I hit the club hard on Friday nights, had a girl to hang with after that and maybe Saturday too and kept it simple. I was very lucky to get an Eagle because no matter how well you do there's always stuff out of your control. But I brought my A game, did my best and things went my way. That's about all you can do. It was a blast. Have fun.

Happy because he knew it wouldn’t happen? Causing fractures and potentially an end to the alliance?

Maybe. But to her credit, her accomplishment involves a bit more than just standing on stage and smiling: she put in some work on par with collegiate level athletics (reference Caitlin Upton's 2007 performance). I'll go out on a limb and imagine that she will likely show up to UPT with a mature understanding of the terrain and threats, probably light on any sense of entitlement.

I wondered about that. I saw a video of her flying in the backseat of an F-16. The narration was all fighter pilot this and fighter pilot that period. It was clear to me. She wasn’t actually flying the airplane, because her elbows were on the canopy rails. As a former F4 back seater, I recognized the posture. I feel sorry for the young officer. It must suck to be starting pilot training in the grip of a massive public affairs frenzy.

Plenty of parents and kids willing to pay out of state tuition to join the “we” club mentioned above.

It shouldn't be. You are no doubt emotionally attached to other things that people find bizarre. It's basic human nature. Just look at bashi, perhaps the most emotional person on this entire forum, he's just emotionally attached to the other side of the argument.