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For real. When I go talk to kids in outlying communities from base that are in poorer sections and I mention the jobs we have and women aircrew I get a lot of "I didn't know we could do that." 2018, kids have smartphones but don't know women can fly (in combat) for the USAF. Go figure. It's one of the reasons I don't hate the "First woman/ethnicity general/pilot/crew to do XXX." Gets the word out and generally opens the youths eyes to something they might have historically (or culturally) been barred from or not considered.

I think VR is going to be fantastic for a lot of training. It's not going to take 15 years, and not with the fire that Cyber and pilot production has. We have internal AF developers that can kick down doors and get this shit done. FFS the last 24 AF/CC was a Viper driver and is now ACC/CV... Win10 migrations was having significant changes to the network every week. They got done because CSAF, AFSPC and 24 AF CC stood behind it. With SECAF, CSAF, AETC CC (and ACC/CC) behind it this could work the same. The "no" monkey's are dying out or being killed. We've still got some POS Col's/Lt Col's, but they're self-identifying and removing themselves for areas of resistance. The GS/SES's on the other hand...well...look at this OBOGS issue, we're stuck with these old fuckers. As a Cyber dude I know all about being behind the tech curve. I worked for the past 2 years watching AFNET burn down while we shoveled cash to some GO's pet project of cloud email (you're welcome for your 99 GB email, sorry about not being able to login). Before that was 18 years of "why the hell do we have to maintain base infrastructure with end of year funds?" I shouldn't get a call from some FAIP in Austin on Thursday about how to hook VR up to AFNET for updates/google maps access/whatever and he needs a solution by Friday. He's not talked to his Comm Sq or his A6. He's not even sure who's providing his current internet connection, or how it runs. His OG/CC sent him there TDY with the mandate to "get it to work." I hope that bro got more assistance from my AETC/A6 POCs, he'd never spoken to them about the project. That phone call sucked--that's a fucking foul on Ops. If you don't think I know what I'm talking about, read through my post history and I'd advise you to feel free to stay in your lane and stfu. Apologies for the thread derail, back to OBOGS.

Come on man, I'm not Trump lover and voted for a few Dem's in the last election, but you're stretching here. 1) Besides her therapist...who? I've seen nothing else in the news about ANYONE else she told even close to temporaneously. 2) That's not evidence of anything. You love it when jihadi's and white supremacists wear masks to remain anonymous too? 3) Is she...finally? How long did that take, and how far does the Senate judiciary committee need to bend over to get this "poor poor victim" to bend over to share her story. 4) A professor, from CA taking on big bad Republican Supreme Court nominee who's going to tear out women's uteruses personally? She's got a shit ton to gain. WTF are you talking about. Between the book, interview and movie money. There's the fact she's in a extremely liberal start, in a highly liberal profession. I'll put real money on her getting some NOW award at the end of the year, and this probably helping her move up the ivory tower further. 30 years...of living in CA, in academia and NOW is the time she comes forward. Not during Obama's time when the college's were kicking out dudes over text-messages and not-really-rape-but-she-said-it-was-after-you-didn't-reply-back-fast-enough. Plus the new accusations are so fucking ridiculous...hope you never had a drinking game where someone's pants came off. You're accessory to sexual assault. This shit stinks of the gulag courts...which seems about right for where they want us headed. I guess K will throw himself on the mercy of the committee and beg for forgiveness for contradicting the always right "victim."

Surprised we haven't had any commentary on the bullshit going on with this Supreme Court pick.

1) How do the training results hold up? 2) What value is there in every squadron spinning up their own version? 3) What is the level to which home-spin VR will be utilized to train of a single class iteration? 4) How does it get funded? 5) How do you get that shit to work with the Cyber dudes? That's just spitballing. By all means, keep home-growing (in each squadron) a separate solution to the same problem without any outside expertise for input.

So, lets say they manage to get through all those hurdles without a FWA or contracting complaint and getting slammed. When it breaks...who's going to fix it. And when this shithead CC leaves...is it going to stay in place? I love it when I'm busy doing my cyber stuff and my CC tells me to learn how to formation fly a civ T-6 on my "other" time, without OG or MX assistance. Strongly encourage a FWA call...

About as classy as the rest of his actions. Was anyone actually "cool" with him at that point or was everyone done with his shit?

Not an iPhone guy. I do have a Pixel 1, and I love the stock (non-samsung) apps and constant security updates. It's the reason I got the phone. No carrier bloat-ware either. It was almost $1K upfront, but I think it was worth it in the end. I got all Android OS upgrades before any carriers and all security updates the day Google released them. I would also add I haven't had a "slow-down" or other performance dings like I have with carrier provided phones. At this point with any other smart phone I'd be looking to trade it in since it wouldn't stay connected to data for more than 30 mins. Pixel is humming along fine for weeks at a time. I've got nothing bad to say for Samsung, just that I prefer the HTC phones more. I believe you can get an unlocked phone straight from them, but I don't know how that'll work with your carrier for security updates and OS upgrades. Pixel 3 should be coming out in Oct, so I'd wait for that. It was a little pain the the ass to setup my pixel w/ Sprint, I had to go into the store once. After that and a few hours it worked fine.

CMSAF Enlisted Jesus did a AMA over on reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/9ezg0x/im_cmsaf_wright_ask_me_anything/?author=CMSAF18KalethOWright

Have you read them all, do they hold up to the originals? I wasn't a fan when I heard about how they continued the series, but love the original Clancy books.

Not if you write the PD correctly, and hire correctly.

They have a kid together, so it's more a solid block than dodge.

Looks real - Updates (kinda) - Thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/9a34sw/begging_for_a_wedding/ That's a good board to follow anyway, lots of stupid/entitled people.

Wasn't that DTS/GTC born off the good per diem change? I don't care to check back through the pages, find a 2Lt to do it.

I hope she took a good sample.

Making the HPO thing official, not sure if this goes in this thread, or in what's right for being open about it. https://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2018/August 2018/USAF-Seeks-to-Groom-Standout-Squadron-Commanders-.aspx

Good dude, good spot, good for all of us. https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1608612/senate-confirms-new-acc-deputy-commander/

1) Fuck Chang 2) Any proof to these bullshit claims for promotion?

So, in non-staff-speak (correct if wrong): MAJCOMs ain't actually paying shit for your "new" contractors and are directing you to use "Innovation Funds" to cover it. Therefore getting credit for more contractors and utilization of "new funds" at the same time? Or that's just your MAJCOM?

As Chief of the Base Ops Uniform Board, I agree.

Just so we're clear, the guidance is: It's ok to screw-up, just don't do it publically.

So...never update the uniforms, or research new materials. Ok.

Legit was not expecting that author. Thanks for posting, good read.

Guess I'll be the only person who supports and thinks going back to something we had before McPeak is a good idea™. As someone who led Airman and had to wear the Service dress 4+ more times a year, going back to the 4 pockets I saw growing up would be fantastic. It's kinda legit heritage. Imagine if we get back to the Hap Arnold symbol with this leadership crew. Would you all complain that's a waste too? Sure, there's other things to focus on as well. But it's not like you're going to pull someone out of the uniform board, tell them to retain more Airmen and it'll have an impact.

The Meg, it's exactly what it appears to be. As long as you go into with those expectations, it's a simple, awful and fun movie. Note - I'm getting tired of every side-protagonist being Chinese. I get it, the market is huge over there and Movie executives gotta eat. But they had the Communist flag shown twice at the end of this flick, and no other flags shown at all.