albertschu

Obviously there are O-4+s both in and out of the cyber community that get it, but in my experience, the majority of people in cyber leadership and staff positions don't.

And yet it is still a decade late to need.

touché.

1) 2) 3) https://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/107982/major-general-alfred-j-stewart.aspx

https://stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.259911.1388426159!/menu/standard/file/ROBOTS.pdf

I agree. It used to be that way. Yep. I just realized I haven't been drinking enough. (I've fixed that glitch.) If you EAD prior to the academy graduation, and they set your your DOR to the academy graduation date, you will still get a lower line number than grads because you will have an earlier TAFCSD.

It looks like they have "fixed the glitch". ROTC grads that went active prior to USAFA graduation used to get earlier DORs.

Might be worth checking the reg. Sounds like it might have been misapplied in your case. Or two non-priors in same OTS class that happen to have been born on the same day.

If flame resistance isn't a criteria for "Safe to Fly", then anyone know what is?

The difference is that flight boots aren't supposed to melt to your feet if they get a little fire on them. No one cares because your boots won't melt to their feet.

Hadn't considered the early retirement option, that probably is his only COA that won't result in an early dirt nap. I think we should have said F' him back in April when he accused us of supporting the Taliban in order to prolong the war.

It seems like he thinks that he can stay alive without us there to protect him.

In my unit PRFs for BTZ and 2+ ATZ w/ 'P's were REQUIRED to be blank.

So, what you are really saying is that the promotion rate to major is too high.

You mean that since we've been in a war, our medical expenses have been higher?! Shocking. Also, our ammunition budget has ballooned--we should look at cutting back how much we issue to troops in Afghanistan. How does giving a 401k to someone you don't need, save money?

Under DOPMA the number of FGOs is held to a tight tolerance. I doubt that they will stop promotions for 2-3 months.

Nope. It's bureaucrats.

Nice! That would be a good strat.

Sadly that is probably true. This is the wrong way of thinking of it. Increasing the competency of the office corps should be the intent of developmental education, not identifying which officers were selected.

- If you knew that one officer had been strated #1/6 Lts and another had been strated #2/15 CGOs, then yes, logic wold tell you that the 1st officer was #1/15 CGOs. However, the audience of your OPR won't have that info, so they would probably assume that the #1 CGO is a captain... - "#1/6 Lts" is arguably better than "#2/15 CGOs", because you are being strated against your peers, rather than a group that includes non-peers. #2/15 CGOs could include a captain that has been passed over for major. - A more relevant question may be, "which is better, #2/6 Lts or #2/15 CGOs?" If your leadership thinks the other Lt is #1 and your are #2 their choices are to strat you against Lts or CGOs. In this case, they may decide to go with the larger denominator.

Why can't we do both?

Why are there not more people that get this? It constantly shocks me that we are 12+% into the 21st Century and we still have a typewriter mindset on 99.69% of what we do--even when we have "digitized" it in the form of a PDF or FormFlow.

These GOs appear to have a paucity of campaign ribbons... (disclaimer: I did not cross check the photos w/ every campaign ribbon. There may be a few I didn't recognize.)

You do realize that we don't actually develop any of those products don't you? The are all outsourced already. You list PEX as a bad example, but if you compare the budgets of these programs you'd be amazed at how good PEX is for how much it costs. If we ran ECSS like we run PEX, we would actually have usable software and it wouldn't have cost $1B. I 100% agree that we need cyber folks running cyber and that the space/missile dudes calling the shots from Bldg 1 are creating disasters daily. However, cyber-dude involvement in ECSS would not have helped.

I'd say it was his interpretation and execution of policy. I was on the ground in Iraq during COIN and where I was COIN didn't mean let the bad guys kill Americans. We worked w/ the Iraqis to fix stuff, but we patrolled in force, conducted joint raids w/ the INA, and killed dudes that needed killing. You know those sign that say "Durka durka 100 meters Durka durka durka"? Those meant that if you weren't pulled off the road by the time we got within 100 meters of you there was hot metal headed your way.