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Any guesses on the results of of that forum? You think he'll come away with anything new? Might it be another echo chamber of BO.net? I've been to several of those fireside chats with leadership. My favorite one was when a fast burning Lt Col told a three star that he was frustrated because of the lack of respect he got at the commissary. Every one of these talks has devolved into an angry mob with no direction or clear way forward. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had the same experience. My opinion only, but the marine aviators had more pride in their service. I'm staying at a marine corps installation right now. The small differences are very noticeable. For instance- I called the gym on a Sunday just to see if they were open (AF gyms are usually closed on weekends unless you fill out this stupid form to gain entry with your CAC), and the very polite attendant was apologetic when she said "sir, I'm sorry to inform you that on sundays we are only open from 0500 to 2300". So I got to the gym on a Sunday, and it was packed with the corps' weapon systems training to be hard to kill. Compare that with any silly AF gym and the gaggles of people on "profile" for shin splints. Just one of many differences. I won't derail this thread with a discussion on the differences in officer/enlisted relations. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This. There is no better feeling than dropping bombs on bad guys. It was worth the hard work and occasional bullshit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

STFU SNAP. WGAF. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If it were only that cheap. You know why divorce is so expensive? Because it's worth it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I call my WSO "left thumb, right index finger" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nerd Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why would the AF ever offer a bonus without an ADSC? You think that money should come with no strings attached? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Because if the military outbids the civilian sector for labor as we are a significant source for the airlines, powerful lobbyists and people start calling senators. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

99% of stats are made up and only 69% are accurate. If the complaint involves the commander over the IG, it gets elevated, and in my experience in the IG, your 99% estimation is 50% accurate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Russian considering giving Snowden to trump as a gift, akin to a bottle of fine Russian vodka. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russia-eyes-sending-snowden-u-s-gift-trump-official-n718921 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I too have been lucky enough to have good leadership that practice what beerman has observed. Most threads on this forum seem to drift closer together then finally meet along the topic of "what's wrong with the Air Force", and when that happens, in my 13 years in the AF, no one has come up with a fix- from crew dogs to leadership. I will say since my transition to the guard my level of job satisfaction has increased considerably. I can fly as much as I want and there's little pressure to do the things that many people bitch about. There's something to that, and REGAF knows this but it doesn't work in their system- yet. As for Gen Goldfien, good on him for speaking up in the interests of national defense. I disagree that a 1500 hour change will solve the problem because we are already competitive for the majors at the ten year point, and the concept of working 12 days a month and making 200k plus is something that the AF can not and should not be able to compete with, but I don't get all butt hurt about it and whine like a little bitch because shit isn't going the way I want it to. Can you imagine the shit storm from ALPA and the congressional hearings that would occur if the government outbid the private sector for labor? That's some ed up shit that most here would call Orwellian yet on the other side of their mouths complain about the pay/work ratio. I guess I don't understand the vitriol. Don't like the green dot program? Me I either, but pint the finger at civilian leadership who bares the responsibility for this and most other worthless programs. Don't like deployments? They're trying to trim the fat but again, who's really responsible for mandating those deployments to the 'deid? Not flying enough or your equipment is old as shit and broke? Who ed up defense spending (and I'm so bored of hearing it's the f35/Welsh's fault, it's at a higher level than that)? We have a leadership problem alright, but it goes beyond the CSAF. The Schwartz days are behind us. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You guys write so many words. The art of brevity is lost on all millennials. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And BQzip's mom Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

3-day opt Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Using this as evidence other issues are not also getting looked at simply does not pass basic logical scrutiny. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Exactly. Being angry at those trying to affect positive change fuels the liquids of the AF. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Does not address my need to have my zipper half way down to my crotch but it is a start. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Could be worse! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would almost go back for the free go-pills alone. A guaranteed nine-line on every sortie only ads to the job satisfaction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All I can think about when I hear "eneterprise" is Capt jean Luke piccard Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After nine different attempts, I was unable to log in due to the computers on my end. I'm also curious as to what was said Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wrote this while deployed after watching "good kill". Lots of words, some of them funny. I rented good kill from itunes the other day, and within the first 5 minutes i was p1ssed off. I thought the only good that could come from this movie is to reign in its bullsh1t by correcting the inaccuracies. I am exceptionally qualified to offer such corrections, as the film is a biography- melding the personalities of ###-### and myself to form the protagonist maj Eagan (coincidence?). please enjoy and learn from the following first five minutes: you can't hear jet noise in the GCS unless you flew your droid into a wormhole where it was teleported within earshot of the parking lot of creech and you buzzed yourself. Unless the government has invented wormhole-proof datalinks, the driod would immediately lose connection. further, the mq9 is a turboPROP. The least the producers could have done is dubbed in some droning propeller noise for accuracy but these are the same clowns who took footage of maj Eagan dancing on the rudder peddles like he's sweetening up a guns kill at WIC. NO ONE touches the rudder peddles unless you dropped your can of chew, and even then I'd use a pencil or some other inanimate object to fish out whatever fell behind those funny looking foot peddles. The opening scenes also show the driod at 9k AGL or something ridiculous. You might as well send in a 4 ship of vipers because they'd have the same noise signature at that alt. Other stupid shit in the first five minutes: the camera doesn't click- it's not a polaroid the sensor operator doesn't talk enough about world of warcraft The people in the back of the GCS talk way too much not enough awkward silence. minute 6: a car with unknown occupants (collateral) rapidly approaches from the north. Eagan and the SO get all worked up in a dither because they can't "take the shot" if it's within their FOV- never mind actual CDE numbers. Jezus, if it's the FOV they're worried about why don't they drop that bird down another couple thousand feet or just zoom in-problem solved. anyway, Eagan is in such a hurry that he expeditiously counts down from three to zero before he shoots his hellfire. He's not launching the space shuttle atlantis, therefore you don't need a stupid countdown-just shoot the weapon. However, you would be surprised how many tools would practice their counting skills before shooting a missile in the UAV world. It was a habit I tried and failed to break and i see it made it all the way to Hollywood despite my best efforts. minute 7: Rando lt col busts in the GCS to blather on about what a great strike it was and barks random orders. then exclaims "careful eagan, you're beak to beak with an mq1" and the sensor ball magically picks up some other driod trundling through the airspace faster than an IRST sensor could have. There's a lot wrong with this, like why would the mq1 be co-alt while entering the stack, but then i thought it was probably some JSTAR pilot sent to driods so that made sense. the most irritating thing was the colonel being there to begin with. You ever heard of CRM? don't mess with it and GTFO of the GCS. minute 8: the movie shows some place that is not creech AFB. there are few HumVees at creech yet in the movie they drive around like it's Baghdad circa 2004. Eagan makes a right turn out of the gate to go home. He either lives in reno (nope), the director was practicing good opsec (absolutely nope) or they consulted no-one about this movie other than some tin-hat clown on chemtrails.net about military accuracy. Eagan is then shown cruising through vegas in fancy classic car. The car is accurate-plenty of heart broke aviators tried to subdue their pain with large purchases. one need look no further than your's truly to see what happens when a figher pilot tries to replace all he's lost with large ticket toys (mooney, sports car, electric hoverboard skate thing), but no one lives south of the 215 that goes to creech because the drive is too damn long and costs more money over time. you'd rather spend that money on Avgas or up your montly on your pittycar than waste it on an extra half hour of commute time one way by living near the strip. On the plus side, his wife is accurately bummed out when eagan announces he's moving to nights. you may as well be TDY for 7 weeks. back to the inaccuracies: Eagan then refuses his wife's advances. bullsh1t. Nothing is more satisfying than wasting terrorists then going for a role in the hay. no current or former fighter pilot turns down the advances of his wife/girlfriend - ever. Eagan then drives to work the next day via las vegas blvd. I don't even take LVBVD when i'm on the strip because the traffic is so awful, let alone use it as a thoroughfare. minute 9:15- lt col says "fvck" in his welcome brief- would be instantly fired. lt col talks about how hard it is to take off and land these "birds". WRONG. many pilots have demonstrated that they can't land their previous airframe but can land the MQx just fine. minute 10: six to nine more "fvck" from the lt col during brief. Dishonorable discharge for sure. "3k viper hours as a major?". this has never happened. There are no co-pilots in UAVS- there is a pilot and a sensor operator. Let me rephrase that- there are plenty of co-pilots in the UAV community who spent 5 years in whatever platform they came from and were never upgraded, but as far as duties within the UAV community, there are no co-pilots. The new "co-pilot" is touted to have 500 hours in the MQ-9. 500 whole hours!!!! average day = 7 hours of "flight" time. that's about 80 work days of experience. Whew, the day is won and we can all relax. Eagan asks "what's the lag at?" Well Eagan, it's probably exactly the same as what they told you in the TX course and it hasn't changed since ever. But maybe I'm pessimistic and today is the day that the USAF paid general atomics a gagillion dollars to solve that latency problem. It seems like all the shots are around 10" TOF. either they doubled the size of the rocket motor on the hellfire and they now cruise through the sky with the speed of a meteor or the bullsh1t factory that is hollywood just got away with another doozie. The lt col is still nervously hovering about. I've seen leadership hover inside the GCS. when you're out of bodies and all you have left is the C130 navigator to put in a kenetic situation, godd@mn right leadership makes sure he arms the weapons and doesn't set the autopilot to roll inverted and stay there until it's out of gas while permanently shutting off the datalink but Eagan is a superstar, so seeing the boss hover around (and even give clearance) makes me more annoyed. 17:00 - choppers at creech. no one lands there except the thunderbirds with EPs because real pilots don't like the uncomfortable looks they get from a thousand heartbroke aviators. It's like bringing chipotle to refugee camp in Somalia and not having enough for everyone. 21:00 someone asks eagan "i heard you want to go back to combat". And i heard that octo-mom isn't a virgin. 26:00 lt col still hovering about, giving clearance to engage and pi$$iing me off about the whole bullsh1t hollywood establishment. 26:30 "3 2 1, rifle" good grief. 29:00 after whining about being a droid pilot, Eagan's boss tells him to take the day off. I'm delighted that the manning situation has improved so much that they can give days off to disgruntled majors who can't handle the stress of sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day. 33:00 enter the CIA, who apparently thinks that in between hellfire shots is the best time to discuss foreign policy with combative droid crews. 35:00 there's some doubt as to whether Eagan can make the shot happen due to turbulence. that's like asking me if i can still do a good carrier landing on a veneer table top vs marble- it doesn't fvcking matter. 36:00 cafeteria food at creech- WRONG. they had a casino next door that served good food but the AF demolished it. they have your standard bullshit subway, but most importantly there is a delicious Korean restaurant on base (I know, WTF, right?) that has decent seating outside. 43:00 mouthy sassypants good-looking sensor operator opens her lippy piehole again with her politically driven vitriol and asks "what are we, Hamas?" well ms sassypants, maybe we are, it depends on who our enemies are at the time. If we're fighint ISIS, then I suppose we are on the same side as Hamas. If we're securing bagdad in 2003, then no, we want to kill Hamas and the other Shia militias but she nor hollywood has any idea nor do they give a sh1t. 45:00 more political discussions than capitol hill. shutting the fvck up WRT political viewpoints is a survival mechanism almost all of us have developed after our first 6 months in the military but having a stoic disposition and com discipline doesn't sell movie tickets. 47:00 the "date" between ms sassypants and eagan is awful. If I could have taken my wife up for an f-16 ride like eagan claims he did, just think of all the money I could have saved had I not had to court her and get her to look past my ginger good looks without the expensive dog-and-pony shows at nice restaurants and spontaneous, impromptu, fun, rebellious dates. "hey wife, just strap in the back seat of this D model and stand by for marriage". Fvck you hollywood. 48:00 "the thrill of landing an f16 on a carrier". Hollywood, fvck you. the whole date with ms sassypants is bullsh1t. I saw several officers lose their sh1t (and careers/families) because they submitted to the siren's call of ms sassypants. pretty hard to get a job as a washout uav operator with paperwork. 54:00 when egan "turns off the video recorder", he is actually turning off the pilot and sensor consoles of the GCS. Hollywood got away with another one. 55:00 eagan is texting in the GCS. this isn't the ops desk at base x-cell phones are not allowed. 59:00 and the rest of the movie- they've finally found a way to make that elusive hover-mode work. 1:05 Hollywood sends eagan on a huge pitty-party around this time, where he confesses to his wife that he blows everyone up to include the attendees at funerals. It's so full of bullsh1t the septic tanks here at base-x have less fecal matter in them. but during this whole time what pis$es me off the most is Eagan has been wearing his leather jacket the whole time, in vegas, in the summer. Bro, i get it. Those jackets look SHARP and I love my custom jacket from dark-horse more than any man should love a piece of clothing. but if you want me to listen to your bullsh1t about how you kill women and kids, don't distract me with your wardrobe. 1:22 I was blown away when i noticed a small detail in the briefing room- the 8 point orbit drawn on the white board!!! that is accurate, as were some of the other things drawn on the board. These clowns talk about landing f16s on carriers but had the hired expertise to accurately draw stuff on the whiteboards? I'm so confused right now. 1:23 ms sassy pants has to be told twice to turn the laser on. weird how I've never had to tell my index finger twice in the viper. 1:29 sh1t looks pretty bad for eagan. his wife left him, he's never going back to the viper. looks like it's time to execute plan B: "Plan B" is when you target your own GCS with a hellfire missile. think about it, it's some existential, deep futuristic sh1t. 1:30 eagan stops drinking after his wife leaves him. Wife=drinking problem. The rest of the movie is full of more horrible inaccuracies, and we all remember the "i'm still first class" line of crap ms sassypants ends her hollywood debut with. Of note, he turns off his "video recorders" (GCS) again and shoots that bearded crazy at the end of the movie. never mind that there was no laser energy guiding the weapon. Finally, at the end of the movie, he makes a left turn leaving creech. I was relived that the producer finally got something right but not 14 seconds later he's in Reno. Verdict 2/5 stars. the two stars come from the accurate portrayal of the compensating-for-somethin car and the 8 point orbit drawn on the white board. the rest is sh1t. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The following is slightly out of the lane of the way this thread is going but important nonetheless. I'm a right wing guy, but this lefty professor has my respect and attention. Beside his profoundly insightful books on human behavior, he and some of his colleagues have formed the "heterodox academy" to promote a politically neutral college education system that holds accountable bat sh1t crazy commie schools that squash free speech. Here is his annual letter on the state of his organization. It is insightful like the rest of his writings. https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/01/03/heterodox-academy-our-plans-for-2017/ Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No way the union will let that tax revenue just go away Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk