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Has to do with your original active duty service date. The "oldest" guys in terms of service date get the lowest line numbers -- these are usually the USAFA grads, who are usually the earliest Commissionees in every fiscal year group. People who were commissioned after that get higher line numbers. The BTZ selects get the highest line numbers. The board that selects the promotees also selects the people for school. Criteria and cutoffs depend completely on the board. BTZ selects usually all are selected for school on the O-4 and O-5 boards. All depends on when all the selects from the previous board have all pinned on. Lately it has been 6-ish months. The numbers of people promoted each month differ from board to board. It is not a fixed time period to promote all the selects. Remember that the total number of Field Grade officers is something that is mandated/managed at the Pentagon (and Congressionally-approved) level. How many can be promoted depends on how many are currently serving in grade.

Whatever happened to the "FAIP MAfia" bus from down at Moody?

"Liberate" the oppressed? There are generations of people living in North Korea who have been fed a constant stream of state-controlled education and information since birth. These are people who DO think the North Korea is the grandest place on Earth, that the Dear Leader is the Greatest Man To Ever Live, and that the United States is Satan and all we want to do is swoop in, enslave the North Korean people, and steal all of their wealth. There's never been any information available to let them think anything other than that. Those lifelong-formed beliefs aren't going to change until they've had a chance to really see what the rest of the world is like compared to the hellhole that they have lived in since birth. I agree they are oppressed like a motherf*cker...but their 'liberation' is going to have to come from internal collapse and rebirth, because that's the LAST place on Earth that Americans are going to be welcomed as 'liberators' and that's the only way the North Korean people will agree to such a change as a total population.

Just out of curiosity, where is that required? That's not in the current AFI governing Officer promotions -- did it used to be? All the CC has to do is provide a copy of the PRF to the officer 30 days prior to the board; no explanation is required unless he is given a "DNP".

SO, I have to assume that dude is 'paying the price'?

The Enforcer was designed/overseen by the same guy who performed most of those 2-seat P-51 conversions back in the 60s. In fact, it was intended to be a 2-seat aircraft from the beginning (although the two prototypes weren't). The earlier "PE-2 Enforcer" aircraft that was built about 10 years prior to the PA-48s was a full dual control aircraft.

A different view of some tanker-on-tanker action.

Since I was traveling with a family, I just elected to use a pet shipping service. It cost about the same, and eliminated the hassle. Someone else picked them up at my house, put them on the airplane, picked them up on the other end...and eventually dropped them off at my new house on the other end. Again, cost more, but was oh-so worth it in diminished hassle.

Over on WANTSCheck.com, I have posted a PDF file with scans of 37-ish successful AF215s. https://www.wantscheck.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=qqnvQCs7A48%3d&tabid=66&mid=623 Not sure if that link works properly, but it is on the page called "Getting a Pilot Slot from Active Duty", and is a link on the left side of the page. This is a link to the page: https://www.wantscheck.com/PilotSlotResources/ActiveDutyPilotSlot/tabid/66/Default.aspx Here are the details about the 215s that are in that PDF: One thing I will add to reinforce the point: stratification is the rage right now, and it is as close to being "required" as possible. Your raters on the 215 need to stratify you (preferably HIGH, of course!), so make sure they find a way to make that happen. Either strats among your fellow UPT applicants, or among other people in your career field, or your rank, whatever...gotta have it. That's what's going to make a difference between an average 215 and one that grabs the attention of the board. In addition, search this board for the posts Dupe and I made a year or two ago after our Commander participated in the active duty selection board. His observations were worth their weight in gold, IMHO. EDIT: Here's the link to that thread. https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/index.php?/topic/12904-active-duty-upt-board-selection-brief/

Anybody looked up Mr Ramos' office symbol on the Global? I'm betting there are people out there with less letters in their office symbols who'd be very interested about Mr Ramos' new "mission". Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go get a clue as to what it takes to keep us whiny girls qualified to fly planes.

Steve, have you tried posting this over on AirWarriors? Much higher Pk of getting someone with Seahawk and Prowler experience over there.

They lost credibility at "DFAC".

What just happened? Is this still the boob avatar thread?

Get used to it. I was the first person ever to PCS to the CONUS from my overseas base, too.

Valid shot...hence my comment above about her potentially having a "good personality".

Vegas still just seems like someone with a good sense of humor. Uh oh...she might have a "good personality".

Some Flight Docs have the ability to sign off FAA medicals, and some don't. Ask yours beforehand if (s)he can, and they'll do the paperwork. If not, spend your $69 like the rest of the community and have some doc downtown sign you off.

I think it's pretty funny, actually. C'mon, we bitch and moan every day that shoes are a bunch of lifeless drones who have no grasp on the reality of our mission...and one comes along with what appears to be a pretty good sense of humor that pokes right at the whole "mission" argument, and we bag on (her? I'm assuming that's her gender based on your post, Hoss). Although I think CGOC is pretty retarded, I'll admit that before I was an aviator I went to numerous CGOC events. The "community service" events and such were usually followed up by a bunch of Lts trying to recapture their college days through several cases of beer. It was fun, I have to admit.

Well, there's only one way this thread can go: we need to post these avatars in the main body of the forum so they are preserved for posterity sake (and not lost when we change our avatars later). Mods: Edit the thread title and add "NSFW" please. I'll start...

The Goldsboro News-Argus had photos on their website the day the names were released.

It's really quite religious -- I mean, who could argue with this kind of proof that there is, in fact, a God and that he loves us?

Check back four posts before yours and see.

In honor of this thread, I have changed my avatar to something less offensive to the former Vietnamese who operated the Hanoi Hilton.

Not to worry. The SECDEF has assured us that the Reaper and Pred can handle it.

There are about 4 different designs in those "artist's conceptions". Sounds like a lot of hot air.