17D_guy

Great ideas, I'll pass it around. I don't get bags. Yep. That was sent to the wife... in the Ops Sq! I remember back in my old day ('99) that you'd get food for free, and occasionally a day off/pass for volunteering. Plus the FOD walk afterwards always had the golden screw (STS) or whatever it was called. EDIT: Added memories of an AF past.

Voluntold for base Air Show. 10-6 on a Sat, in uniform of course. No coolers or backpacks allowed. No food provided. If you were scheduled for weekend duty, good news! Friday word came down you wouldn't have to schedule leave for Air Show support. WTF happened to my Air Force?

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/08/air-force-new-chief-mark-welsh-to-ncos-instill-pride-in-airmen-081512/ Granted it's from a rag, but it seemed interesting and pertinent. Thoughts? First thing I remember from Schwartz was Blues Monday. Will this be the first thing we remember Welsh for; Telling NCO's to lead Amn?

Is there a move back to the regulation format vs the AFI touchy feely? I've heard so many crusty-(insert rank here) decry the move away from AFR as watering down everything. Another thing I'll have to read through to argue with Chiefs. Also, writing culture down is.. iffy at best.

Wow that's nice.

FIFY https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784884/

His letter was very well written and for the firs time in a decade I'm excited about the AF's future. While I don't get friday shirts/patches/Sq bars, hopefully he'll let us Support guys have back some of our morale items as well. Or.. he'll just give us all flight suits! --ducks--

What an absolute coward.

Saw this break come up while I was on shift and got to the audio as quickly as possible. First thing I thought as well was. "Wow.. blink much?" Additionally, her voice cuts glass.

FIFY & Truth.

Same. I meant that when CE has an outage, water for example, it's less "what did you do, fix it now!, I want a full AAR on why email was down for 20 min" or "why are the emails I sent to my wife's yahoo account taking so long to get there" (Wing King request.. wish I was kidding) and more "they're working on it, they're undermanned, etc". I've yet to have that experience in Comm even though the majority of our outages are: 1) Pushed by higher level leadership (consolidating services, pushing patches not tested) 2) Underfunded Contractors/Incompetent GS Civilians 3) Underfunded equip maintenance(most Comm equip "upgrades" are EOY funds, last base had 8yr old EOL servers, Wing refused to "upgrade" them because they were working) 4) Black Magic 5) Lack of training & experienced Amn Additionally if I had an Amn working early '09 tickets into Nov of '10, then refusing to do the work because we moved the TV... I'd expect to get shit on. For CE.. that's just how they work and it's ok with the majority of leadership. EDIT - Forgot the jab at GS Civilians

When I was in "real Comm" they made SharePoint pages.... and back filled the post office. We could yank some for admin duties, though that was a fight with an idea-fairy E8 (now E9) to get done. It's been awhile since I've looked at their training but I believe they do the SharePoint, and also the file plans. Though I can't be sure. No you don't. Half the problem is lack of manning, the other half is lack of training/experience. The final half (what?) is that people think it's magic and "us nerds" should just be able to make it work. If only CE had the same expectations we do.

Were Finance Amn ever in the Sq's? I've been in since '99 and we had Personnel/Knowledge, but never finance. Ops different in this? I assume you don't mean RA's. Comm took some huge cuts, pushed admin work the the different Sq's, then decided that wasn't secure and pulled it back to the Comm Sq.. without increasing manning. Now they're getting rid of the Amn we used for Administrator work? Enjoy your 3 days of broke computers.

So... can I get a copy of those? Last ones I saw had the original version of the Creed - '07ish. I'll just say hate what we got, but be thankful they changed it.

Only motto's worthing having are those "not appreciated"

Think that's called being a leader, but I don't have a Masters and/or Wings, so I wouldn't know. Never mind I've actually told O-5's, "No" Wife is currently dealing with this in her Sq. I thought the Ops Sq's would be like my MSG ones, just more camaraderie, looking out for each other, & mission focus. Holy shit was I wrong. Instead it's O-3/4's acting like high school bitches, 0 top cover, and hypocrisy.

How are they going to prove insanity with weeks and weeks of planning? It's not like he drove by the theater, thought "They need a Joker!"

Glad it all came out. What safety award? Amn Medal?

CC wasn't drunk, was in front of everyone (75+ enlisted Amn), and random. This fine fellow was on the hot ticket (allegedly) to RIF; no PME, AAD, community service, arrive late/leave early, and certainly no X-mas planning. But apparently he's now decided to play the game. Hopefully he's also decided to stop the DUI lottery he thought was fun. I'd do a remote for normal bene's and that 2 weeks leave every quarter. Guess I'm a AF Whore.

Good thing you've got the close parking. Your ramp assisted van shouldn't have any problems with that.

I got my hands on a couple of other OPR's from my Sq when I had to provide my first set of "OPR bullets". Reading them I was just baffeled that 2 of the biggest DB's in the Sq rated such high praise. One of the dudes put the CC in a druken headlock during the Christmas Holiday party. The other renowned among my Amn for picking up the new enlisted chicks that showed up, and he was married. Mentioned my thoughts/concerns carefully to my CC and he sat me down with his OPR (strat heaven), and we compared and he told me the way to "read". I thought then, and do now: what total horse shit. Anyone seen older reports? Are the ones from the 60/70/80's any better? I will automatically exclude 90's because of Skeletor, and TQM.

Why I started. Got my license stationed at Vandy because the commute (40 min) and gas (~$3.99) Now.. it's the only way to get from A to B.

I didn't know what WIC was until I worked with a... [drumroll] Space guy (exec) who went. Then my wife started talking about going. They announced the call for initial cadre for cyber. I'm too old, and have too much TIS to go. Then I read the book someone on here mentioned about Boyd and learned a whole lot more. I can't believe it doesn't rate higher than SOS DG. Not surprised, just demoralizing.

I'm not a flier so I'm ignorant of the Decs you guys get for stuff. Would this fill in for Air Medals for drone guys? Does it read that way, or is this less of a sorties/missions flown, more accomplishment based sort of thing?

You must have a shit ton of use/lose to burn through If you're getting denied/called back this often.. You cancel your leave when you get called in right? You make them actually deny it, correct? Do you take it up your chain when it's denied repeatedly? Right vs Privilege and all that. Should you just be getting called in you can just do what someone less AF-motivated would do. Go "camping/fishing/hunting" where there's no reception. You're that indispensable the Sq can't go 3 days w/o you?