ThreeHoler

...Ospreys, Chinooks, and Sea Hawks, oh my!

I just picked up a Glenfarclas - aged 21 years. Voted best whisky on show multiple years at the Ayr "Whisky An' A' That Festival." For those not from around Ayr, the town gets together once a year to have a huge tasting and 600 some odd people vote on the best whisky. This one from Speyside has won several years so far.

You do not need an AAD or even a BAC+ to make Maj, however it does not hurt your chances. Your first focus should always be your primary duty, whatever it is...then any additional duties you're assigned. If you are able to do that and still wish to do more, then by all means start on your AAD. As the AF doesn't give a shit about what your AAD is, you could get an MA, MBA, or MS...most flyers go the route of ERAU, TUI (which I guess has renamed themselves yet again???), or the newly created AU OLMP. None of these three are really stellar programs...they just let you get the job done.

757s are cheap, ~65M for a -200.

I'd want my first operational Sq/CC out there on night one. He was credible in the jet: an IP who could fly well and teach. He was extremely credible as the Sq/CC: the Sq earned the Spaatz Trophy due to his leadership. It must have sucked royally on the paperwork side to have been one of his execs, as he pushed hard to provide all deserving Sq members with appropriate rewards...he pushed hard to get dudes their PME, promotions to include a many times passed over Maj his promotion to LtCol with just enough time before retirement that he got to keep the rank. The list goes on. The thing that really makes me proud to have been part of such a great Sq was that there are many more dudes at various levels of leadership who taught me a lot. I'd want my first Chief Pilot. I'll never forget being told to focus only on the jet the first six months of the assignment...and that there would be plenty of time to get the additional duty boxes checked later. I'd want my third Sq/CC. He was brand new to the jet when he was our DO. But he learned well after flying many different aircraft over his career. He supported dudes in the squadron 100%...he took care of the people and the people took care of the mission. There are a few then-Captains (now Majors and above) who I'd want out there as well. But the bottom line about each and every one of them is that they were credible pilots, good leaders, and they took care of the queep without complaint (as far as the rest of us knew).

Your method is absolutely moronic because you will never be in a position to actually make a difference. That is what I'm saying.

Your summations are spot on. The Rainman method of "do the queep to try to make things better for the dudes that follow" is exactly what every leader should do. In the long run, falling on your sword does nothing but give the fallee a false sense of moral superiority that he can lord over everyone else. That is not to say that at some point you may find something so morally reprehensible to yourself that the only right choice is to vote with your feet and get out.

Tennets. 8/10. Cold, clear, and good. Drank it because I'm getting paid to hang out in Scotland.

There is no limit to the partial DITY. The pay scale is all based on "saving the government money in moving costs" by moving some or all of it yourself. However, unless it has changed in the last three years, carrying 999 lbs of HHG will net you more money than carrying over 1,000 due to the way the incentives are set up. Edit: You'd have to look in the JFTR to see what, if any, the restrictions on multiple cars is, as I have yet to make a married move. You should also be able to get all this information from your TMO brief when you go in to set up your partial DITY. It would have been a lot easier if your support personnel had provided the appropriate level of support. Although, it does highlight a life lesson for all of us...as much as it sucks, we need to be able to go to the source documents because the shoe clerks generally suck at their jobs. I would have been shorted over $6,000 in PCS moves so far had I not gone to the JFTR and AFIs and pointed out finance's royal ######ups with the PCS allowances.

I was recently in the Philly airport and Patti LaBelle was there with all her bodyguards (before this incident took place). She was very nice and posed with tons of passengers for pictures and her "handlers" were equally nice. Who knows what really happened...

It's not the correct way to do it, but it's also the best way to un###### your prior weigh in mistake as you had already unloaded the truck. I would expect no troubles from the finance people. But now you know, and knowing is half the battle! Edit: the more correct way to fix your mistake would have been to pay for a new full weight of just the truck and stuff, minus the trailer and car, then unload and reweigh for the empty.

Keo. 6/10. Because I'm in getting paid to crew rest in ######ing Cypress, on the beach, at a bitchin' hotel.

Sometimes I push buttons. In this particular case, I am 100% serious as there are really ######ing stupid people who would use the excuse "but I read it on..." to justify why they defrauded the government. To me, it is worth it to make sure I have a legit weigh-in once every three or so years...to others it may not matter so much, but they should always be careful of what they imply and how the grade A morons of the world will see it.

Tuborg. 9/10. Comes in 66cl and is only 3 euro. Easy pull top can be made into 'Tuborg bunny.' Motto is 'open for fun.' It didn't hurt any that the waitress had on a shirt with the motto right across her excellent chest.

There is a difference between "is it on the F" and "is the tank fully topped off." Anyone with half a brain can easily see that fully topped off is a theoretical max that you can never actually reach. However, what you were implying was completely dishonest. Am I going to stop for gas before weighing in empty if the needle is not on F? Yes. Am I going to stop for gas after driving a few miles to pick up all my stuff and driving back to weigh in full? No. Unless the needle has come off the F significantly. Playing the gas game for a few extra cents per pound per mile is just as retarded as the guys who try to move bricks or cinder blocks with their DITY goods. If you're "not going to suggest" but just tell people something illegal is "ok" you could screw someone over who didn't know better. Just sayin'...

Don't the majority (THE PUN, IT BURNS!) of people get MAJCOM staff as their vector (speaking from the MAF side)?

If you truly believe the full tank is optional...someday you may have to ask yourself if that extra 100 lbs was worth it.

Phoenix got raped by a massive sandstorm yesterday...

CF6 burns ~5k an hour whether you have three like the KC-10, two like the A300/310/330 or B767, or four like the B747. The RB211 engines have similar cruise fuel burn.

Yep, that's a D-21. You can see the sign on the ground in front the one in your first link...just like the picture above...probably the same drone. The other two appear to be D-21s as well.

There's something still alive in there...quick! Kill it! Kill it!

To make non-zoomies jealous?

6. May I be paid a DLA when I PCS from my permanent duty station/place of active duty to my home of record or home of selection (HOR/HOS) when I leave the Service? No, by law there is no DLA authorized when the PCS is from your PDS to your HOR/HOS. In other words there's no DLA authority when leaving active duty. https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/faqdla.cfm#Q6

Ok, another tack: How do we, as a service, transition the best damn tactical mofos into the best damn field graders and best damn leaders? To provide a bit of focus to the question: first, how do we do it if we could completely revamp the entire system right now? Second, if we can't make those sweeping changes, how do we do it within our current system? Facts I will never disagree with: 1) we need the best damn tactical dudes we can train and mentor down in the weeds getting shit done; 2) we need some shit hot dudes in FGO-appropriate roles within our squadrons, wings, and so on; 3) we need shit hot dudes in leadership positions, all the way to the top...dudes that will make the mission happen and provide appropriate care to their people to enhance the mission. For what it's worth, I think our PME at the SOS and ACSC level is pretty shitty and the most of Master's degrees we do end up wasting money on do not provide any true use to the USAF. The ACSC Master's program has a lot of potential...but right now it's a bunch of circle-jerking dick/clit-sucking bullshit with, in my experience, only 1 of 4 instructors willing to tell students their answers were not up to speed. This is evident in the "with honors" criteria of >3.95 GPA...it is extremely easy to get A's in the courses. I think we can make it better. The new "operational warfare" focus is a step in the right direction. If you aren't aware of it, the four elective courses are credited for completion of WIC, which cuts your course count down to seven. It gives you credit for three of seven ACSC tests. But it can be better still...we can create something that does provide benefit to the member, the USAF, and allows for DG/other identifiers for "useful" OPR/PRF bullets.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Oh, wait...wrong war.