ThreeHoler

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Reserve squadrons will shutter and the base will become AD/ANG associate like Pease. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Bring back the inflatable airplanes!

It comes from the Gucci crew bags Douglas gave the crews who picked up jets at Long Beach. It stuck because people were jealous of air conditioning on the ground, hot and cold running water, a flushing toilet, cockpit noise

If you’re a man, with a penis, and you like women with those assets…then you’re a cisgender man.

That boom worked on a KC-10. I’m still not sure how Boeing ed up the Douglas design. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

https://www.amc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3162858/kc-46a-cleared-for-worldwide-deployments-following-first-combat-refuel/ Maybe those prima donnas will start pulling their weight! Unless it is an A-10, of course. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

“The person reporting the allegations also noted a distinct tattoo in DiFalco’s groin area, which investigators corroborated in the report.” PTWOB? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’ve heard the iron will be shared between the NJ guard and AD. I’ve heard from AFRC that “that isn’t true.”

Did they post that to social media? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

“Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!”

Which time?

Well, he picked that battle… Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Just came to post this…definitely WTF.

You still have to pass the final exam to leave on the lat day. Yes, there is prep necessary. If you don’t do the pre-course workbook you will get sent home. The ETCA and your MAJCOM TRQI should send the course information/materials to you through your formal training office. https://usaf.dps.mil/sites/affsa/SitePages/XOT.aspx Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

If enough people bother the FSDOs about a mil equivalent for the 767-2C then the FAA will establish one. The LDS (not the Mormons, sorry) is already in use on the 787/737MAX and being installed on the FedEx/UPS 75/76. File a complaint with your FSDO (OK, KS, NJ, NH, NC) that the FAA hasn’t evaluated the 767-2C for inclusion under the pilot type provisions of the existing 767 type.

Those sound like ARC/ANG upgrade times. Part of the problem is there is no “real” AC upgrade course yet. There is also no “real” IP upgrade course. There are AMC approved courses and they’re being taught pretty much anywhere but Altus. That said, on the AD side of the house people are upgrading on two paths: plaid (think Spaceballs) and normal to slow. I know people who took 9-12 months to complete MCT…and I know people who completed their PCS, PTX, all extra certs (course not yet approved by AMC), and IP upgrade in way less time. I’ve seen a split between “haves” and “have nots”…the have nots are sitting around waiting for someone to tell them what to do and when to fly…the haves are getting their shit in a sock and upgrading (whether they should or not). McConnell just spread their initial IP production across the other AD bases. All the broad swath of people brought in at the beginning had a lot of good ideas but very few of them have survived to be passed down. Lots of good idea fairies still and tons of people making shit up instead of reading the books and fixing the problems in the books. There are two camps…the tactical patch wannabes and the tanker TOADs. Ne’er shall the two meet. That is to the detriment of the community because it needs smart crews who are good at tanker (and receiver) and good at other things too. People need to get smart on mission systems so they can effectively advocate for those systems to big AMC who doesn’t know what to do with the capes that already exist. It is no where near FOC (RVS 2.0 and the stuff boom must be fixed first). I don’t expect it to hit IOC until at least RVS 2.0 is out. But maybe I’ll be surprised that they ramp it up…but then Boeing will likely say, “Are those really cat 1 DRs???” Yes, the current ICR allows refueling with 97% of the fleet, and there are some new JCS priorities being filled…but it will not be “operational” for political/cat 1 DR reasons (thus ECE instead of a EUCOM deployment). The -135 doesn’t hold a candle to the capes of the -46. The -46 can’t touch the off-load capes of the -10 but the mission systems more than make up for it. The AF would be smart to skip KC-Y and but another round (or two) of KC-46s. Peggy can be a bitch…but she is what the AF needs right now even though many systems may already out of date (MIDS, MDN, CPDLC, ACARS, and so on). But the AF needs a ton more Peggys to do the mission. I’m still waiting for the damn boom to make me some cookies.

Tanker wise it is a slightly larger -135 with a “new” -10 boom. Same min AR speed for the boom so I don’t know what you’ve been told. It is mediocre as a tanker when comparing the legacy tankers, but it does have AC on the ground and a real lavatory. Mission systems are the difference and they include capes sorely needed across the MAF fleet. But big AMC doesn’t understand or appear to care about TDL, etc.

Fixed it for you.

Does that CBA include McConnell, Pease, Seymour, McGuire, and eventually Travis? Or just Altus? Last I saw to get hired for KC-46 sim at Travis you had to do time at Altus. Have they stopped that silliness?

CH, the NDAA forces the Services to make a “business case” for each bonus segment. They can’t just offer the max to everyone because Congress has limited it when they tried that. Or so we have been told. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

You think Altus can actually produce in volume? Aren’t there like three “FTUs” right now?

It’s just that the UTC hand runs on a Windows 7 emulator on a Linux box. Nothing to see there.

Burn pit registry + history of sinusitis is already a rating. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app