Bender

So can I or can I not barrel roll outside of the MOA…in a combat zone? This shit is so unclear… ~Bendy

A quality 3-hole punch is EASILY the best and most effective weapon employed through my entire Air Force career. Always have an ankle punch…always. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

This wait is starting to become unacceptable. Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

The last RPA stud I saw go through crushed it, PA’d quite a few rides, and tossed a detailed, critically well thought, multi-page critique of the program. Might have been a bit of an outlier, but definitely a good thing whenever it happens. On the flip side, I watch a lot of good students struggle because the syllabus (read courseware) just simply wasn’t developed to teach students to successfully navigate the increased expectations put on them. Most seem to survive, but it’s their own credit…not the system teaching them (outside of the IPs…which has always been the case). It’s more burden on the IPs to get average students across the line now. The 19th is working updates, but man…we should put a pilot or 2 in the courseware shop. If things go they way I think/want them to go, any 18X advantage would become clear in short order leading to a different expectation. That doesn’t mean it would pan out, but that the data would show the reality. Too many people work off anecdotal data…even the programming guys are in no man land right now looking at historical data that is an apple to the current orange. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

Not only is it a thing, it’s nothing new (PA has been in the syllabus at least for 2 decades). The primary “oddities” of the 2.5 syllabus are actually designed to promote PA/PR, so that they are used in the most advanced “phase” of training possible, or at least where the student needs it the most. I don’t believe the MASS does account for PA at this point. A PA event is just absent, so it won’t/can’t hurt, but it won’t/can’t help either. Shouldn’t be a big deal, as the reason the PA occurs is the student is doing well already. They like the MASS details to be a black box (beyond what’s in the AFI), but it was opened up during the generation of the 2.5 syllabus…some things have been tweaked, like difficulty grading, but that and other things like the maneuver weightings are not accessible knowledge to the average IP. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

I say you don’t need them back… History says Vance will say AMF-S is awesome and ready to go full scale at their base within 0.69 seconds of starting it, so having a T-1 will be moot anyways. Two years later, everyone else will start and the MTD and syllabus will have improved 0% and the MAF FTU will become one of the worst assignments in the Air Force. Or not, I’m sure it’ll be fine. Things are going great, it’ll be fine. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

After tanking pilot production for years at END, tanking pilot production at CBM last year, working its way through DLF this year…this monstrosity is up for a syllabus conference next month. The draft already has a massive overhaul…shocking (for the better though). That syllabus, at this point, is like walking backwards and forwards at the same time. Some revisions should help, but until there is real progress in artificial instruction and a learner-centric learning management system, things will only continue to revert back to where it started from (not that many would complain about that). This T-6 syllabus has been such a mess and distracting, the actual 2.5 syllabus still isn’t done yet…not even close. It took years, as is standard, right up to the wire, but the execution of the T-1 was stayed at the last hour by Congress. We’ll see how that plays out… ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

There is no reasonable expectation that you wouldn’t be treated with respect. There may be a large number of skeptics and a few that outright vocalize their disagreement with the program. If you contribute to the mission, fly sorties that others now don’t have to, do it well, help the students succeed…this isn’t a valid data point in anyones decision to do/not do this program. I would however consider the training being offered and your actual experience level…UPT students are ing dangerous. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

That is a FAIP. …but, like all of these other things going on: it’s a half assed implementation of a good idea. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

..and you love me long time, damn it. Happy to help, ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

Or maybe that?

I have to wonder how “put together” you would consider it if you visited today. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

I’d like to second that foreign policy and personal behavior are two distinctly different things. Not sure why we’re grabbing on to the personal jab there…my personal sacrifices aren’t going to slow Russia’s roll down the road to the capital. The initial question is pretty legit. So why not…I have my answers, but Lord Ratner is well into it at this point and I’d love to hear it. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

Have you seen the new primary pilot training syllabus? Hard to say we’re “doubling down on producing”. Taking a good stab at halving it… Should be a good product for the CAF (which maintains their T-38 training), pretty unclear for the MAF…though I’m sure quality will suffice. Keep an eye on the primary production numbers. The next few year groups are going to benefit from some Cold War style ops tempos! ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

It was a statement; it’s up to you if it’s a suggestion. Honestly, I wasn’t trying to start a conversation with you. I’m sure all of your senses are spot on all the time…so no worries. ~Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app