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I don’t fly with it on, but our squadron bought the Coyote Brown Massif jackets for the everyone (which is surprising because they usually skimp on everything.)

We haven’t dropped an atomic bomb since 1945 I guess we can scrap AFGSC but that logic? We are a strat airlift asset which means we must maintain the capability to execute intertheater airlift. As an IP I know the pain of trying to get AR training, it sucks especially given the MX status of the tankers when at home. However, if I had a dollar for every time someone told me “we’ll never do that for real or it will be the SOLLII/WOs/Leads” in the last 3 years I’d be sitting pretty well off financially. There’s a lot of things the Air Force as whole doesn't do on a daily basis but still trains too because it’s about what we can do when the flag goes up.

The new C-17v1 is now effective as of 15 Jun you can pull it off Epubs. As for MobGar when we have multiple crews Leroy Jenkins their way straight through called SAM WEZs because they have zero battle space awareness or understanding of what TAC C2 is telling them then yeah maybe we need to do more of that. The TCM OG/CC has not waived NMR events at the end of the semi for 2 periods now to purposely not cover up had much training we couldn’t accomplish due to the Ops tempo and the SQ/CCs are all on board. ETA: while I like some of the changes they also made some way more complicated, such as the formation currency with Night Vis Wing is going to been even a larger pain in the ass for IPs to ensure everyone gets.

I know the C-21 squadron at Andrews is going to close soon, already seen a few people headed there get vectored elsewhere.

Not necessarily true, not VR but pretty good overall. https://news.ecu.edu/2017/10/11/right-of-line/

Can’t, they took that out of the syllabus.

More or less they already had it setup to where the visual cues could be reduced as the pilot got better at flying.

Yeah exactly, they were better than the Tweets, now we have something better, so let’s use it. The one I saw had gates to fly through to help you learn to fly patterns or instruments approaches. Pretty effective for showing what the correct sight picture looks like.

The sims especially at UPT bases are outdated with limited fields of view (especially for a canopy aircraft) and shitty graphics. Futhermore chairflying infront of a poster was great before technology existed. We have those sims where students can go sit in a T-6 cockpit and flip switches to get hand on experience or the T-1s with actual mission computers to practice with. How much do those cost versus one of these VR kits? I flew one of these at a presentation at shoe flag and I believe that we can produce way better pilots using VR. Nothing will replace putting a students ass in a cockpit, but doing it the way we’ve done it in UPT for the last 50 years is also a sure way to ensure we don’t produce the best product we can.

Just remember we could still be part of the Army.

According to one of the MAF functionals the MAF FTUs aren't at max capacity. Which makes sense because last I checked the C-17 schoolhouse was only several weeks behind /sarc.

Google the title and you should be able to see it without the paywall

AMCs “Fly only track” but only for DV platforms, because that’s where we are short on experienced aviators. Just when I thought AMC was at least on a good trajectory they pull this shit. https://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2018/August 2018/Mobility-Boom.aspx

2018 Airman of the Year because of volunteer bullets: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2018/06/27/air-force-times-2018-airman-of-the-year-takes-community-volunteering-global/

Moved here for more appropriate discussion but the two links 17D posted for accessing the new outlook from your computer are now blocked by IE and Chrome due to invalid certificates. Any have any luck getting them to work?

I going to go with young captain who’s first assignment was MC-12s. Also HarleyQuinn, the last 17 years has been a smorgasbord for China and Russia. We’ve put a lot of our R&D and future programs on the back burner and they got an upfront seat to 17 years of TTPs, decision models, C2 structure, weapons capes etc. We needed to be in the fight but wearing out our best equipment with 17 years of fighting in a unforgiving environment was not smart move. China and Russia aren’t afraid, if they were we wouldn't be currently scrambling to figure out how to deal with the annexation of Crimea, the Southern China Sea, the Great Silk Road etc.

Checks

There's a promotions page on portal? Like people actually use that website for more than hyperlinks to other mostly useless .mil websites?

Great question, one I'm sure leadership will have to answer for here in a couple days when people get the results.

He explained that they set up an actual promotion board and ran the board through Full PRFs, one line PRFs and no PRFs. The end result was almost identical promotion rates regardless of format, therefore they decided to can PRFs since they had almost no effect on the promotion and save everyone's time. The fact that people still wrote them is indicative of probably the biggest issue we have in the AF, which is middle management going rogue and not listening to HAF and thereby wasting peoples time.

I heard directly from one of the recorders for the board at AFPC that this was not the case. You had a 100% promotion opportunity (which has always been the case so I don't know why leadership started using this) but not everyone will get promoted even if you had no negative indications. I predict this is going to backfire spectacularly in leadership's face, based on how they sold this, when people get notified they were passed over. I can see the Air Force times headlines now: "100% promotion rate to major, does not mean 100%", "Top Air Force Leadership lied about promotion rates" etc.

We’ve even stopped sending prior 38 guys because we simply can’t afford the manning loss. We just got a huge influx of majors into my squadron which are all returning from UPT/RPA and are pretty much useless. We can barely get them CMR (some we haven’t 1+ years in) before they get sucked up to the GP/WG. So now we have 1st and 2nd assignment IPs teaching not only the new pilots but trying to spin up these majors who can barely fill missions.

Yes however, while a contributing factor the people were typically Pheonix Reach or similar types who were upgraded to IP too fast and were there to check a box not learn and employ the C-17 mission.

Let’s be realistic about who the MAF is sending back to UPT. Our manning and experience is becoming as critical as the CAF, we can’t afford good pilots leaving the communities outside of special programs. Besides a few volunteers for family reasons, those we send back are typically not our strongest swimmers, and some are barely above drowning at any given second.