17D_guy

webmail links, try these, lemme know -External is for a personal computer or a government computer, connected to commercial internet, not using VPN https://cp.mail.us.af.mil -Internal URL is for your government computer connected to base network or using commercial internet connection with VPN https://webmail.apps.mil

I'm at some training, but let me ask around. I know this was an issue last year, I hope they've cleared it up.

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One of you savages posted the rumor on the portal page, and even referenced baseops.net, so I guess they deleted all the comments. What a wonderful day.

2 weeks ahead of release? that normal?

It was one of the first things I noticed...I'm just incredulous he could have that happen and walk into a Wing Exec job like it never happened. There should be even more shit coming out from all the other times he's been around. Be like Wilkerson all over again... Also...how does this not fall on those that sponsored him this whole time?

Sir...so spot on. Former Scott commander was involved in sexual misconduct at multiple locations, charges allege Dude's not a GO, so he'll actually get punished. I also refuse to believe there weren't signs of this before that people just swept up in order to keep him "on the path." Adding bio from the Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20171213122550/https://www.scott.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1255974/colonel-john-o-howard/ How the fuck did he get aide-de-camp in '05 if he got kicked out of SOS just prior in 03/04 timeframe? Or wing exec in '03-'04?

Solo was ok... Deadpool 2 was fantastic

Did that in my workcenter as well on Staff.

Weez is on point with this one. I've mentioned it years ago. Comm was RIF'd at least twice (possibly 3 times) before the 2014/2015 Hunger Games. I think it was '06, '09...perhaps '11? There's a large stigma in our communities about "being outside" and it being a detriment to your career. Go to school house - that's outside "the community" Go to AFPAK, RAS, etc. - same AF needs assignment (OTS, SOS, BMT) - same Joint anything - same Now...there are, of course, people who've "recovered" from these assignments. But the jobs are ALWAYS discussed in a negative light and as placing you behind peers for promotion and other opportunities. Could you imagine being a air-breathing operator and being told the stint you did as a lead IP was "detrimental to your career?" Or you'd never recover from FAIP duty, "sorry thems the breaks?" Welcome to MSG. Special shout out to cyber for still not following the flying upgrade path (FTU, IP qual, master IP's, etc.) Someday we'll get it together...probably atfer another pilot leads the domain.

Allies doesn't mean prison bitch; they get to vote for whomever they want...just like we do. Now...should our engagement change..ab-so-fucking-lutely.

Strong 2+. Fair warning, you will get extremely pissed off if you have any sense of honor.

Hate to say it, but in cyber the NAF made sense. Probably because of the diffuse, overarching requirements of cyber. Subordinate to AFSPC (or ACC when it happens) for ADCON, but reporting to CYBERCOM for ops stuff and TACON for our ops units. It took me moving to the ops side for it to become clear...some heavily obfuscated lines that don't become recognizable until you realize the 3 hats Wedge was wearing. We do a shit job training our Lt's to understand the point of the CC structure, and even worse joint. No HPO who bounces in and out is going to ever get it.

Yet the AF has built the fast track because we don't have enough rep at Joint jobs...wonder why?

I don't know what level of buffoonery that rises to.

I can apply for retirement this Christmas. I ordered name tapes yesterday, and tried a set on for purchase on Monday. I know you pajama wearers don't care, but all the rest of the folk I've personally talked to are super hyped. I can't frigging wait to get out of this gray abortion of a uniform. It never fit right, wore right and the shoes were starting to get them pressed and cleaned. I went through OTS Mar-Jun in the old heavy weight ABU's and hated life for how rough they were to do anything in. OCPs seem to fit the same as BDU's, which is fantastic. Plus...PATCHES MOTHER FUCKERS! Finally some unit pride and options for morale/friday patches.

At Hurlburt now for a short stay, what a lovely base. Isn't this exactly what the CSAF just released a memo on? Or does 1 SOW predate that and HAF is taking that line? "The memo said annual mandatory training on cyber awareness, force protection, combating human trafficking and the Green Dot sexual assault and suicide prevention program, which was previously done via CBT, can now be done through mass briefings." But my Cybers!

Finally read this, I'm sure it's been posted on here before. Good read that explains a lot of the recent discussion here. - Speed Trap: The USAF 24 - Year Pole to General Officer https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/576.pdf

@Champ Kind I honestly think we're starting to swing back the other way from the "everyone's a warfighter" nonsense that's been crammed down our throats. I think/hope these changes on the E-side with EPRs & PME are precursors to getting us back on track looking at mission/ops fulltime. I also think this uniform change is part of that. A change that makes sense for the majority of the force, saves us money, gives us something better and will force us to distinguish out loud that we're Airmen, not soldiers. I also think they're not going to have you zipper-suited-sun-gods not be distinguishable in your 2-piece. You'll get some flair, or perhaps scarves will come back, or silver pipping around the collar...who knows.

RUMINT//NON ATTRIBUTABLE In my discussions with the HPO-boss whose coat tails I was riding, this was spot on. As a Capt he worked for a "sponsored" Comm Colonel who was going places. That Col retired as a 3-star, but still has deep ties to our (now) Cyber community. That 3-star briefed a group of 17D's at a Friday Beer call that once he pinnned on his first star the MAJCOM/CV sat him down to ask if he was "in the game." My former HPO-boss retired because of a long-term family emergency. A very good dude, mentor and was doing good things about getting our culture changed. He had guys that he made sure got high profile assignments before he bounced to cashing fat checks. I did not work for him at the time, though we were in the same org and he looked out for me. My actual boss during that time was not a HPO, was "asked" to retire and didn't secure a strat on my OPR despite DoD level awards. Which...fine. However, they wouldn't even tell him why I didn't get one or what to improve on/feedback. Another Col I know said a lot of the same thing as the article, and also mentioned that I now needed to find another sponsor. When I was working Wing front office stuff this is what the execs would talk about and how when someone ducked out that was planned for higher position it put a 48 month ripple through the system. Apparently there's notional plans for all these HPO's and GO's that far out. JQP had a good article on it a few years ago. I'd like to note that the execs hated this whole thing and would have rather been flying. Having sat "fake exec" a couple times and talking with the real execs, the time GO's put in to grooming a not small, but not large, number of candidates for quick moves wasn't a surprise. Having spoken with a lot of Col's at my last job, and seen how much more of their life they give up to wear birds, and the same w/ GO's...I'm not sure it's a deal I'd make even if given the opportunity. I'm certain it's not a deal my wife would make. I will grant that I've been blessed with good Col's and GO's since May of last year, so perhaps they're doing more than some douchebags would instead of pushing things down to us. Also, for the tribal piece. I've heard this from every Col+ that I've talked with about promotion/assignment boards. They called it the knife fights, and Col's came in with the short list of people they wanted to protect/push. Sometimes they got all/some/none of their folks to where they wanted them. That part was very political, and there were serious/loud gripes when other communities would push around for prized positions (see - 11M pilot now taking cmd of 690 NOS). For Cyber there's also Cyber (Offense/defense), Mission Support and Combat Comm tribes, which are also distinct from Sq/Staff tribes.

So.. it's like their version of Trump.

And here I've never gotten the medal plates in Tx because I didn't want to do the extra paperwork... 3 years running...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/politics/us-navy-seals-alleged-sexual-misconduct/index.html And the hits keep on coming.

My favorite thing is the "innovation idea" taskers that come down urging us to :cut the cruft and think outside the box." Then require us to route it through the entire chain, brief Sq/Grp/Wg CC's for it to get out of the Wing.