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Obviously they flipped 1 and 2, but I’ll forgive them. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/g28612977/badass-planes-ranked/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_pop&utm_medium=email&date=080719&src=nl&utm_campaign=17709519&slide=24

Meh. Replace release weapon with airdrop and it sounds like a local herk sortie minus the 4 ship formation low levels and formation tac arrivals. A better argument is they flew 38s in UPT and therefor have relevant experience.

I think you are close but I think the 2 real problems with 11Ms (I’m a pimply faced herbivore herk driver) are 1, they don't understanding it’s a different flying in the fighter world with different skill sets. There is some overlap with some heavies but not all and it’s hard to teach from that perspective but you can overcome it with some extra hours. 2, and I think the bigger problem is who is considered a good pilot in the heavy world. Guys that have the -1 memorized and are good office workers but have hands of 2 ton bricks are considered great pilots on most platforms. Hand skill almost doesn’t matter based on the type of flying being accomplished. This means you send your “best” pilots to go fly planes that actually take some SA and hand skill and the reason they sucked in UPT comes right back to the forefront. Also it seems everyone is getting a fighter now, which means who is getting the heavies? The bottom of the class, even more so than it used to be. 10 years ago # 3 of 27 is going heavies and adding to those platforms. (While also contributing to the current fighter woes). Not the same today (also contributing to some of the perceived lack of talent. Not every fighter pilot is 1 or 2 in his class, he may have been 7 or 8 now)

List should be out

0 context on my upvote but I had to get you to 777. Glad the crew is alright.

Half the time I see he has posted in a thread I don’t even open it.

I’ve almost made this same post a few times but have held back. I just realized today he viewed my profile and went back to find all my old posts in order to down vote them, lol. All 15 of my down votes are him, which must have taken days. Definitely something up with him.

My grandpa was one that had 12,500 hours in 20+ types in the Air Force over 30 years. He retired and never flew again.

So now you can get a second bonus?

Why would I not just sign a 3 year bonus and then sign another bonus in 3 years when it has possibly gone up? Is there something I’m missing?

Flight commanders didn’t win too often because they usually didn’t push themselves, so the commander, DO or other flight commanders would push them. If they won then they would help the ADO write it. Helping write your own because you were selected is a lot different than expecting half the squadron the write 1206s on themselves to help the exec. And everyone has an opinion but I liked the system because of what Raimius said. Winning based on the paper and not what you actually did is a problem in my opinion. Writing the 1206 for the person that kicked ass and deserves it in order to let them compete at the next level is doing it right.

I think you make some decent points, but I can't agree with you here. In my last 2 squadrons the commander and the flight commanders sat in a room once a quarter for an hour or less, hashed out who had done what, decided on the best and then tagged that persons flight commander to write a 1206. Never had to explain why the squadron didn't submit a 1206, and no one ever put themselves in for an award. It also gave the commander some insight on what the younger guys were up too.

We got the guidance today at my wing. Senior Rater gets one strat of the member against the other either I/APZ or BPZ members. IF they use that strat then they can additionally strat against a peer group, either same rank or duty. No FGO or CGO strat. Also no mention of anything except promotion in the push lines, IE no school push in the PRF. Im sure it will get fleshed out more in the coming days.

Fired 7 commanders. Showed up as a herk wing commander having never flown the herk and said on day 1 he wanted to change our culture to get rid of low level below 1000 feet and limit us to 30 degrees of bank during all phases of flight because any more was unnecessary. Had the squadron that had a c130 crash at Shank show up 30 minutes after everyone else on base for the formal safety brief to talk about their issues, and then made them walk in between the rest of the wing to sit down. None of the people he did this too were on the deployment. After watching the safety brief with cockpit audio, he then released everyone out to welcome the crew on the safety brief back from Afghanistan 30 minutes later. Wanted to Q3 crews for not flying their 100% flap approach speed of 145 knots when they were heavy weight since the book said too, but would also Q3 them for going 146 knots which was a flap over speed. At one point he was a deployed commander at the Died, flew on a B-1 sortie, and would tell everyone afterword about his days in the bone and the bombing missions he had logged. I could easily keep going.

This for AD. Airlift units are super tight over seas as well just based on the separation. Stateside is a different story. The more an airframe is on the road the less tight knit the squadron, but also the more remote a base is, the tighter the squadron. Fighter units tend to be way closer but they are squadrons of mostly officers and most of them are home for the weekend, so it makes sense.

We gave out 1 fighter every other class in 2007, and not many more in 2008 because AFPC said we had too many fighter pilots. Fast forward 10 years and we have a shortage. No idea how this could have happened.

Good luck with that 12 hour notice you are leaving at 10 PM that night on a 16 hour duty day for 2 weeks to a place they cant tell you where over the phone but they said pack for warm weather after only working days for the last 2 weeks. Oh yeah, and troll.

All of the above is true, however the actual wait from notification to pin on is not bad anymore, compared to the 2 years it was a few years ago.

I grew up near John Young Parkway but had no idea who that was or that he was from my city until just a few years ago. Great American.

Depends on what you have and where you are going, like everyone else said. Having done Germany and Japan I would probably take what I had to Germany, and probably not bring anything to Japan.

Apples and oranges. Your argument would mean that there are currently no combat leaders flying aircraft in the entire Air Force, and I would disagree. There isn't as much of a problem with helo pilots bailing out of the Army because there are a lot less helo jobs out in the world to entice them. There is also some validity to the AC being an officer, especially on the mobility side, and having some authority to protect his crew and mission. I would assume this also applies to the CAF side but I'm not as familiar with it. The main argument against enlisted flyers right now is that they will bail for the airlines in higher number than Os because the pay gap will be even higher. The problem as stated many times before is not that we don't have enough people that want to be pilots, its just that we aren't making them fast enough, and we can't keep them in. Making enlisted or warrant pilots does absolutely nothing to fix that problem. It just gets some people some headlines, makes it look like options are being looked at, and in my opinion is pushed to show enlisted can do it just as well as Os. Probably true, but it doesn't matter it only exacerbates the problem. My question is why would you not want to become an officer if everyone else is?

We all have to be instructed on responsible alcohol consumption now as well as not drink. This should solve the problem...

Well played.

Seems like a lot of violent agreement. I'm for the change because it makes it easier for me as the PIC to make a reasonable decision and get a much faster response, but leaves me the ability to refuse if I think its unsafe. Unless I'm interpreting this wrong. Just my 2 cents.

I want to say the rule is the uniform you retired in or the current uniform. No mixing. I do not know where that is written though.