17D_guy

Well.. not just this YG - https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/09/18/all-eligible-air-force-captains-to-be-promoted-to-major-for-next-three-four-years/ "Goldfein also said that promoting all qualified captains will mean squadron commanders won’t have to do the paperwork involved, which he said amounted to “a pretty significant administrative burden” and would free up considerable amounts of their time. Wilson also said that without these promotion boards, squadron commanders will have to step up and tell underperforming captains that they’re not cutting it. “If you’ve got a captain who really shouldn’t become a major, you need to step forward and say so, and not move it to some faceless promotion board,” Wilson said."

Negative. This is pushed from higher, with bad word-of-mouth if a unit/wing isn't putting in for these BS awards. I can say when I've been in positions to deal with these, everything we can "neg respond" on, we did. That was a pitiful number though.

Weird to see Rainman on here as a Guest account due to the update. Hope he's doing well.

Here's a possible reason - "Look, you guys got promoted! Please don't flee for the airlines/industry!"

This is cyber now. Everyone is all-in for the CC pool, no one can opt out if they have retainability.

Concur

We're in the new, longer version now. Guess I'll provide a review once complete. I will say that I'd much rather be here than the job I was working (Staff), so I'm going to be biased. If nothing else, I'm enjoying the time speaking with different pilots and other officers. I've been able to hang with some Hog, Viper, AFSOC, and C17 dudes and it's been very informative. I'm getting asked a ton of questions about Cyber. Everything else (re: class) is background noise to learning from my peers. We've been given a lot of social time so far. From some of your anecdotes it seems to have changed quite a bit in just 3~4 years. P.S. Thanks to this board, and RAINMAN, I can follow about 50% of the A10 conversations.

In SOS now and we were discussing this whole thing. Same thing happened to me when I received faulty treatment from a major surgery. Wing CC approved waiver, SOS denied it for same reasons. Now I'm still broke, but have to grit through it since it's the absolute last class I can do before my board.

Excuse me... that's "Cyber words" now.

Watched a Wing CC, CV, JAG, etc. deal with this at a base I was previously at. They spent an inordinate amount of time for 2 individuals to see how they could continue serving. For what...two more Airmen, compared to the Wing, it's mission, the other items they're required to cover by law? How are we going to deal with trans people downrange that forget their pills/shots, or host nation issues, GO1, etc.? I don't care outside of AF work, besides the insanity w/ the pronoun nonsense, and have known 2 that worked as civ's on base. 1 was nice, the other was an asshole who wore mini-skirts all the time. As a reminder - https://www.offutt.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/998356/transgender-airman-flies-high-with-new-af-policy/ Why the hell did he have to send this shit out on Twitter...

I know we don't talk the Enlisted stuff too much on here, but the new CMSAF just shat all over the outgoing idiot's EPME "revolution." Everyone should have gotten that email today.

If you need a rule to auto-sort these to deleted items so you don't even see them, let me know.

Cheetos and War Games in a single thread? You guys finally get us!

How. Hard. Was. That. Holy shit.

Fantastic article, well thought out and supported by facts. It will therefore be dismissed out of hand by out General Officers, because it's "not how they did it."

So I know we got off the JQP hype-train a couple of years ago. But his latest one is pretty good and not to hyperbolic. https://www.jqpublicblog.com/corruption-ranks-mcguire-ig-wrongly-dismisses-ncos-reprisal-complaint/ If someone here has some IG experience, please weigh in. Because this one is baffling to me.

Some poor Capt/Maj on staff was told to WAG at how many hours they could get for $XX, $XY & $XZ money. Then the bosses threw it all away and came up with that number.

2009 was when they started the AFSC change...they still haven't figured out how to do it.

Ask Holder?

This is what's starting to get chatted around about in Cyber. We're getting told one thing about how important we are, and how important our retention is...but not promoting at even normal rate levels compared to "support."

No joy in promotion info through bro channels. Sent from my Pixel using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

You guys are really arguing over which states are better? Lived in CA for 10 years, lived in TX coming up on 2. I hate them both. Sent from my Pixel using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

Just to be clear, he was quoting A1 and (in my opinion) did not appear to be in agreement with them. While very professional and somewhat above it all, he appeared very bewildered at how things were being done. Exactly on the working you in a higher position, for no more pay or additional benefits (ORB is not a "benefit"), or any mentoring. I don't know the GO billets, but I'm fine with pilots running the show as long as they're like Wedge and actually care about the cyber mission. I've not been impressed with the career cyber shiny pennies moving along, but I'm just a CGO. There is a dearth of Career Cyber/Comm GO's that I can point to for examples to the coming Lt's. I will say on factor is because the AF assesses a ton of prior-E guys, so even on the assignments team slides the yellow box of "retirement eligible" at 10 years is 3 times that of the rest of the AF. With how the AF decides for future leaders, they're not going to waste their time (usually) on someone like me or any other prior-E who had actual time as a E versus the short stay the "prior-E" GO's had. Through every merge the cyber guy's spot is always dropped. Basically we're like RPA's, tons of lip service but come to actual support and leadership, then we become the afterthought. We don't even get the flight suit.

No, it was the statement of the panel lead to us. I would like it to verify on my own. Our manning from the Assignments team brief is rather abysmal and not at all inline with the rest of the Line Officer's of the AF. I'm sure it's on MyPers somewhere if I wanted to compile it all... I'll ask around as well. It is a very interesting statement.

Was wondering about this one, I'll check it out now.