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I don’t know. Don’t ignore the Vol3 blatantly in front of a MAJCOM evaluator? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Skitzo, thanks for your comments. I mostly agree with you (especially in your anecdote), but there is an issue with retarded v3 restrictions that cannot be undone. Copy your point on a 679 submission, but the uncomfortable truth is that it takes too long for that process to work (which it mostly doesn’t). You were great in A3V but many of your predecessors were both unreasonable in execution and unrealistic in the many absurd emails they’d send to the ops DO/CC teams. I’m speaking generally because specificity is impossible in this forum.

Had an awesome time, with my Son (777 pilot) and Air Force Bro’s.

Israel removed senior Hezbollah leader by sending his body parts in different directions through the use of explosives earlier today and now have smoked Chief Political leader of Hamas in downtown Tehran.

Maybe the solution lies in a Hollywood movie. Each aspiring USAF pilot gets matched to an old crusty vet that teaches them with stolen sim time til their dad is captured by the evil side, then they make a plan and steal a few planes and save the day. A leg-strapped cassette player is required in order to intimidate the evil side with Twister Sister.

They prefer to call it an innovative approach to student centric learning using a competency-based training method.....

They had an experienced IP onboard who didn’t uphold standards or do the other things expected of someone in that role. There were a shit ton of complacency problems in this crew that are a unit problem. The commander and DO set the tone. There are things within flying that are independent of flying skill that are easy to set the tone on. These people weren’t doing any of those. You can blame big AF for a lot of things, but lackadaisical complacency isn’t it. Instructors and squadron leadership should be setting the tone on the admin and tactical discipline. These people ed up, and their squadron mates displayed a lot of the same deficiencies, whether the AF has screwed flying training and hours over the last 20 years or not. Quit trying to provide a cop out. Edit: as much as can be believed from the nav AIB pres, anyway.

There’s a tension within squadrons against A3V because (to quote you) they should be “feared”. It’s like having a dad that beats you if you tell him you need help with your homework.

Pennywise pound foolish AF… The answer is so obvious

You guys think the Colonel's middle name is "Dick"? That'd be unfortunate.

If they were wearing a ring while TDY-Q3 for judgement

Anybody else read that AIB report and notice a glaring lack of any kind of blame or indication of a lack of oversight from the Ops Group or the Wing? They seriously took the OSS/CC and the BS/CC and DO to task, and lambasted the squadron culture....but squadrons don't exist in a vacuum. They also made no attempt to ascertain whether or not this same cultural lack of compliance existed in the other bomb squadron. I'd like to think if I were on an AIB and I found this kind of glaring errors, I might at least interview a few of the flyers from the squadron in the same group and ask "Hey, do you guys do this?"

Fair.

A.1 - The transformation of the ASEV process into the larger IG inspection process that dilutes focus and has made Stan/Eval inspections friendly instead of feared. True story as a Team Chief for an A3V inspection I issued a WARNO to the squadron commanders noting a lack of discipline wrt professional equipment - lack of gloves and wearing rings despite V3 guidance prohibiting it and a lack of aircrew having equipment to secure their EFBs during critical phases of flight. I noticed this during my pro sorties and verbally debriefed it many times. When we got to our inspection site I flew a N/N with the squadron patch who was wearing a ring and whom I politely asked to remove his ring before he started the engine. I did this for the rest of the crew but I did not witness anyone else doing so. After we landed I Q2d him because he was the person everyone looked to, violated V3 standards after I warned his commander. Before you flame me for issuing a Q2 for rings, I debriefed it multiple times in sorties and gave verbal corrections and notified commanders directly in advance. For everyone who flies regularly with rings safely everyday as an airline pilot cool I get it. Had a 679 to change the regs to allow silicone rings in coord. It wasn’t a silicone ring btw. When the MAJCOM speaks to commanders and people don’t listen it is a problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly that’s kind of besides the point. Point is some HAF shoe found out aircrew were doing something, and changed the rule to disallow them from doing it.

Airplanes are cool!

Would love to see him resign in protest. SACEUR has made similar comments about our failure in Ukraine and deterring Russia in smaller groups. Can’t wait till this incompetent affirmative action administration gets dismantled in January.

Today watching Tim Pool he informed his audience that You Tube has deleted some of his shows for violating You Tube rules. Who owns You Tube , Google does, what are the two biggest share holders of Google, Vanguard and Blackrock. In fact look at every major media corporation who are the two largest shareholders, the same. They almost have controlling interest in every Fortune 500 corporation. It will be just like 2016 again with alternate media types getting deplatformed for fact checking the mainstream media. Don't even get me started on the on the military industrial complex and who has majority interest.