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Double tap on this. My IFT was loaded into my CDB for me to see. I went to my CSS and they pulled my record and was able to see my MFS and UPT dates that were hidden. My SURF was clean though. Apparently it updated at midnight and the dates were loaded at 1 am. Also I got my assignment RIP from the CC this morning as well. See you all in Columbus!

EFMP trick works btw! Slotted for Vance atm! Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

"safe and effective" "you take it you will not get covid" "winter of severe illness or death for the unvaccinated" "100% protection against getting covid" and you have the arrogance and hubris to accuse people of vaccine conspiracy theory? HAHA people have the right to be skeptical.

EFMP trick worked! Columbus, AFB. Looks like per my CDB, projected training starts in June 2024 and ends Feb 2025. (I've already completed DOSS) Which is quite a bit shorter than I anticipated? Maybe they're still working the numbers or maybe UPT is taking some more shortcuts? Who knows.

Ya, I meant for that to go above his head, but your last paragraph hits on that point, so it's might just be moot. Either way, best of luck, hopefully he's being moved to a position where he can't do anymore damage. Not that a dude like this would ever go to an airline, but I know of a squadron that successfully blackballed a dude from all his top choice airlines because he was just such a toxic boss, especially toward part-timers/airline guys. He apparently had a CJO in hand at a Legacy and ended up having it pulled. Unfortunately this type of grass roots effects aren't as successful with Generals as they're just too far entrenched and will always find a cush contractor gig after service.

Thank you for your post & link. I'm not spun up, but you're right that the commentary from the link I posted was needlessly dramatic; I should have just posted the Red Cross link. A deferral for blood donation depending on vaccine manufacturer is yet another strange clue that vaccine mandates were premature and ill conceived. My intent was adding to the growing collection of those clues listed here, not distract from how weird it is that C19 vaccines (from some manufacturers) now require deferral before blood donation. However, what you call hysteria I would phrase as righteous indignation at the crime of coercing the population to accept immature and dangerous vaccines which did more harm than good. You may argue that characterization is untrue, but many clues are slowly piling up (including this post) providing data for my point. The "hysteria" from this incident originated solely from the pro-vaccine crowd. Although the commentary on my linked tweet might be provocative, it isn't incorrect.

Received an MFS RIP for 29 Feb (can't attend due to being on OCONUS leave though) this morning. Also received PCS RIP for Sheppard for 8 July. Wayyyy sooner than I had expected for an ENJJPT slot but very excited! Probably expecting an August-ish class start date from what I've been hearing from others that are there.

Yep looks like a month after my IFT is over will be my RNLTD of 30 Sept

1. Your first comment is wrong. You cannot give blood immediately after receiving a vaccine if it is in the category of manufacture requiring a two week wait. That is new. That's what this post is about. This new policy applies to some manufacturers and not others, for brevity I left that out of my original statement. 2. The point of my post is given this new restriction, what information is that based on and what other implications might that information have? That is the whole point. It's not a smoking gun, and was not meant to be. 3. you're confused why I brought up illegal immigrants, so let me spell it out for you: you said 99% of Americans received a vaccine not impacted by the new two week restriction. But there is a new large group of people giving lots of blood coming from locations where this is relevant. Is this why there's a new policy? A speculative question on my part, but this is a discussion board, and the point is to discuss. Clearly I'm not as articulate as I thought I was if you don't understand the point under discussion. 4. And that is ultimately my response to you: you are looking at this as a completely irrelevant minor detail being blown into a large issue. If it's so irrelevant, why did the Red Cross come out with a new policy? Given how cagey information surrounding Covid has been, this was new and noteworthy and worth mentioning. I did not blow this into a major issue, other people did, by assuming more into the post than is actually there. Cheers.

Farrell is so funny to me. He’s pretty much universally liked but my old squadron was the first he addressed as a new wing commander when we got back from a long deployment over Christmas. Started the brief by welcoming our sister squadron home, then told us to take leave on the weekends to not have use/lose, the duty day shouldn’t end until 1730 (which is why retreat played at HRT then for years), and several other things that were honestly misspeaks due to nervousness. He crashed and burned so hard and my squadron hated him lol. Reminded me of this. I’d hope for Tom Palenske but even he has some negative info from a senior AFSOC guy I know and respect. Can’t win ‘em all.

Ummm…from the CDC Director WALENSKY: First of all, I just want to note that I share this optimism. I`m so -- I`m so impressed with our ability to vaccinate at a clip of 3 million vaccinations a day. We have 93 million Americans who have gotten their first dose, 51 million who have gotten their second dose. And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don`t get sick, and that it`s not just in the clinical trials but it`s also in real world data. https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442

I know for a fact he is blackballed from "some" Industry...numerous folks have stepped in to make that happen. Sadly he will consult or one of the big that doesn't care will hire him.

You are hard to talk to and full of assumptions, so I will end our dialogue by answering your above sentence, which seems to be the core disagreement. False. Maybe they went back-and-forth with policies I don't know, but just for fun I opened my old folder from group deputy and found the Red Cross authored policy for DOD as of Jan 23-- zero restrictions on blood donation of any type after Covid vaccination. In fact, it was encouraged for some reason. I'm not going to scan the memo, but this popped up in a 1 second search essentially saying the same thing: https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/press-release/2023/blood-community-reiterates-the-safety-of-america-s-blood-supply.html I was unfortunately heavily involved in discipline issues during that time, meaning after graduating SQ/CC I was an admin bitch for WG & GP leadership picking through the complicated nuances of Covid discipline. Guidance was changing constantly, faster than the organization could communicate. Frequently guidance would be in conflict with other guidance. I don't know what the policy was in 2021 since I was busy killing enemies, but I know what it was in 2023, and I know that it has changed in 2024. Cheers.

It's absolutely not a nothing burger, but neither is it some giant gotcha moment (which I didn't claim). In 2023 you could donate blood immediately after receiving a vaccine, now you can't. What changed? What other implications might that change have? You talk about the manufacturers from 99% of Americans, but consider over 7 million illegal immigrants recently added to the country and many of them are donating blood to make money. Have you donated blood recently? I was blown away how many non English speaking obvious new immigrants are using this as a cash source. if you were expecting a smoking gun to collapse the liberal C19 scam, this isn't it nor did I say it was. But think for a moment about the second and third order effects of the subtle policy shift, and the fact we are now acknowledging unknown risks were forced upon us; it should be clear this is not fake news to be ignored.

You and I probably align almost 100% on the Covid debacle. But, the twitter post implies the Red Cross rule is another smoking gun regarding Covid info cover up. The reality is they just say you have to simply wait 2 weeks to donate blood if you got a live virus vaccine. This does not include the 3x companies that probably 99% of America got. There are lots of smoking guns out there and tons of data that shows how fucked up/wrong/ineffective the vaccines and other COVID responses were/are, and demo the extreme amount of gaslighting conducted by the govt, the medical community, and big Pharm (and championed by the shithead progressive left). I have no trust in our govt, big Pharm, and medical community gets almost none - case by case basis I’ll trust any of them. But like it or not, this specific Red Cross thing is absolutely a nothing burger. Every time somebody goes after something like this, it provides a, “ha, gotcha!” moment for the left, and they use it to delegitimize the overarching message (which is a valid message). It’s not a good plan to fight mouth breathers with mouth breathing.

Have you checked your SURF on AMS for projected trainings? Mine updates on Wednesday’s not sure if everyone’s does or if it’s a last name thing. But it had 3 lines that maybe can help you build some info

Saw this on my CDB, but haven't received any emails. Everything I found related to this is the MFS, which is the last 3 letters of the code, but the 29th is a Thursday...don't these things happen on Mondays? Has anyone else seen this look like this? Also, this just dropped this evening and is 7 days away...wtf man [emoji58] Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

It'd be nice if they could simply say, "Hey if you received a live virus vaccine don't donate because you could give someone COVID." If that's not the reason then they should state what the reason is.

From the link: “If you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to donate….There is no deferral time for eligible blood donors who are vaccinated with an inactivated or RNA based COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, Janssen/J&J, Moderna, Novavax, or Pfizer” Sounds like manufacturers are a variable based on the techniques of manufacture (some have live attenuated and some don’t), but you’re right perhaps my reading comprehension is poor. However, I didn’t claim it was a smoking gun and since you need help understanding my point I’ll clarify for you: This is a new (ish) restriction from the Red Cross. The fact they have new information resulting in new safety guidelines means new things are being understood about a vaccine we were forced to take and undermines the 100% certainty of “safe and effective” used to justify vaccine coercion. Which leads smarter people to wonder “what else might we not know about these vaccines? And what risks exactly were discovered resulting in new guidelines? And if giving blood after certain types of vaccines is deemed unsafe, is breastfeeding safe?” Etc. Ergo I care less about the technical specifics and more about the indication that risks exist where no risks were claimed. Pro-vaccine tyrants want downplay every new piece of information as insufficient to a mature case overturning their assertion that C19 vaccination was required. But we’re learning, slowly, new risks ASW these vaccines and by compiling a list of those unspoken risks (of which this is an additional example) I’m making a case to the reader that more thorough study of these vaccines is warranted. Edited to add: I’d love to know what you think my “vaccine conspiracy theory” is. I made it pretty clear what I think- these were forced on us without enough testing. We should study this further, and learn from the emotional overreaction. That’s it. The fact you cannot have a rational conversation about the subject without claiming I’m a conspiracy theorist and insulting my intelligence doesn’t make you more convincing.

I heard RUMINT at one point that "the plan" was to take both Slife the Knife and Fat Tony and exile them to Korea as a career-killer SOF backwater, but that happened right as KJU started sabre-rattling, suddenly Korea mattered again, and inexplicably they both snatched victory (i.e. more stars) from the jaws of defeat. 🤷‍♂️ It's quite hard to F-kill toxic senior leaders in any large organization, I guess I just had higher hopes that AFSOC would find a way in this case. Here's to hoping those poor bastard USAFA cadets get a (big!) new CC and AFSOC can be rid of the Sith once and for all.

It was quite a rough period for that Sq, for sure. I don't disagree that he shouldn't be leading anything or anyone. That period in AFSOC in general was real stupid; the command almost seemed like they were trying to out-AMC AMC with the number of Q3s that were being handed out. That said, I personally think that he'd do less harm at USAFA than his current position, but that's just one guy's opinion. While I appreciate the sentiment regarding the "Dear Boss" letter, CAT 5 doesn't and won't give a shit about something like that. At all. If anything he'd probably track down the guy or gal who wrote it, delay their retirement pending some type of investigation, and try to give them an Article 15 for insubordination or some such nonsense. I kid, but not really. I personally believe that at the upper echelons of leadership the AF knows exactly the problems it has; they're just either unable or unwilling to take actual steps to address it. CAT 5 being a case in point. After he put an Osprey in the trees as a Grp/CC, his wing commander told the AFSOC/CC "I can fix him". Nothing happened, and now fast forward 12 years we're all dealing with the fallout.

WUT? If I were an OG or above, and I had a SQ/CC that handed out more than a one CC directed Q3s, I'd be wanting some explanations. More than a few and I'm probably setting aside a day to go through them all with the SQ/CC. 34!?!?! I'd probably removed the guy because clearly he doesn't know how to lead. In my entire career, I know of exactly one Q3 that happened while I was in the squadron. That was during the B-Course where a dude Q-3'd his first form 8 ride for some serious buffoonery on ground ops. ...ended up being a patch, so it didn't hurt him too bad. I've never seen a single command directed Q-3, though I know of one case that warranted one lol. Anyway, this doesn't sound like a guy I'd want in charge of our future AF leaders. This sounds like a great time for a community wide "dear boss" letter. The last thing we need is his style influencing USAFA cadets and permeating throughout the AF. This is a great time for all you dudes about to bail from service to start a grass roots movement and make one more positive impact on the AF. You're always allowed to talk to your congressman.

There's some of that, for sure. Definitely seems like some guys are leading scared. Since CAT 5 gave out 34 CC directed Q3s in his time as a Sq/CC and isn't averse to firing people, if you're a careerist CC in AFSOC right now you can see that logic (not that I agree with it). A lot of the mishaps/buffoonery I referenced above isn't coming from that; its coming from either ignorance or in several cases willful disregard of regs. AFSOC is extremely lucky that there hasn't been more death/injury up to this point. In my MWS, I'm seriously concerned that CAT 5 is willfully marching my community towards Class As. We're about to have an almost 50% reduction in the SOI at the schoolhouse, they're also going to stop teaching several METLs that I'd argue are core to our mission sets. These METLs will now have to be taught at the Sq, where we're younger than we've ever been; some of them are also the more risky things we do. We're also about to start getting pilots direct from the T-6 track on a shortened syllabus with less hours and experience. CAT 5 is pushing more and more risk to the line Sq/CCs without giving them any additional resources (beyond trying to throw a shitload of additional flight hours our way) to try and fix the experience problem. Most of the ideas he's pitching/implementing (large increase in flight hours, large increase in MQF test questions, pushing training onus onto ops Sqs that are ill equipped to conduct it) aren't fixing anything; in many cases it's going to make things worse, at least WRT retention and risk. The guys in HQ seem like they either don't care or are just trying to keep their heads down since if they speak up they'll get shot in the face anyway. Apologies for the long post and possible thread derail.

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