Ram

"If you don't chew Big Red gum, you're going to SNP and see this one again..."

As long as I can still time-travel inside a Xanadu's kettle, I don't care if girls are there or not. I just don't like waiting for drinks.

"I'm only doing this to pay for school..."

Sorry, I didn't know you were a victim of the Mississippi education system.

Loose, like BQZip's mom after her weekly Saturday gangbang?

I'm looking forward to Fox News saying that a war might not be a great idea. For the first time ever.

As hard as I try not to, I still catch the occasional nugget of info in between CNTL-F sprees...

Hm...I've always wanted to shoot a HARM. Neat-o. How would we be helping, exactly? My ACSC readings are stressing critical thinking and how we effect the geo-political end state. I want to shoot things, but the cognitive dissonance I'm suffering has sent me VFR direct to my Gentleman Jack. Getting old is hard.

Oh shit. She's been Michael-Jackson-ed.

Oh, you mean instrument flying? Yeah. The first step of any DD-175 is "where the f*ck should we go?"

Probably collecting data for someone's AAD.

Unless it has to do with TP stalls or instrument flying, FAIPs have no idea what they're talking about and should not be trusted. (FAIPs: Don't be a SNAP and stroke-out with a sensitivity aneurysm. I was once you. It gets better.)

This.

It's easy math for me. The Air Force has never sent a finance school / personnel school washout to UPT.

What a strange place we're in. The POC for processing bonuses is forced to take a work/pay cut. Odd.

Those fighters are just doing their best impressions of a KC-135 during a coronet.

We spent 11 pages on it a while back: https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/index.php?/topic/19687-vance-upt-class-patchwtfo/

You beat me to it. Damn.

This last cycle, dudes were non-voled to Kunsan out of cycle. That's right...you aren't on the VML and BOOYAH...here's your remote. I personally know a few of those dudes who dropped their papers and took the 7 day option instead. We're well beyond empty desks and starting to cross into empty cockpit territory. Weird that no one saw it coming...

https://www.duffelblog.com/2013/01/pentagon-announces-plan-guaranteeing-disabled-americans-teenagers-right-to-military-service/

Flying before the SIB is published, no doubt.

When I was a Flt/CC, yes. The new SQ/CC wanted our rack/stack (and why) the very first day he was on the job. Don't confuse an OPR with a feedback session, and don't think for one second that a lack of official documents means the SQ/CC doesn't have the ability to stratify outside of PT/Masters/CGOC. If your Flt/CCs are in MQT, you're doing it wrong. (IMHBAO.)

I bet the jet's back in the line-up in a month.

I'm sorry that's the case for you (and--from what many dudes say here--other young CGOs around the CAF/MAF). My experience has been VERY different. With the exception of one SQ/CC years ago, I've been mentored/taught/given feedback from every commander I've ever had. The SQ/CC in any unit is a busy dude. Hopefully, he's spending a lot of time trying to screen his pilots from the inevitable queep stream that rolls downhill in any wing. Once he's done that, attended the meetings that seem SO important, and taken the time to write/edit the 14-ish OPRs/EPRs that cross his desk weekly, he doesn't have much extra time. This is where the Flt/CCs and other senior captains need to play a role in officer development. Think about it: Aside from the "community involvement" bullets your average CGOC produces in their self-licking ice cream cone of douchery, their original intent is fairly sound. They exist for the non-ops CGOs to provide informal mentoring, advice, cross communication, and growth that you simply can't get as the one CGO in a shop of 50 other SNCOs/NCOs/junior airmen. The mentoring and involvement the CGOC offers is EXACTLY what you get in a fighter squadron of 20 captains. The CGOC might not understand (and probably would be shocked to see) the "feedback" given during a roll call, but those young CGOs would KILL to have that kind of group CGO involvement and growth opportunity. We ops CGOs take it for granted, and the bad senior captains/majors we have ignore (or don't realize) the role they need to play. Flt/CCs, IPs, senior 4FLs/ACs, and junior majors need to realize that they have a HUGE role in developing the young pups. These are the guys who need to give feedback (mostly informal), motivate, and steer the younger guys. Since the senior captains/young majors can't do the things their SQ/CC does (see above), they need to focus their efforts on the developmental time the SQ/CC wishes he could do (but is stuck queeping in his office or at a meeting instead). "But the SQ/CC and the OG/CC should be doing XXXX and YYYY to develop the younger dudes!" <----- IPs and Flt/CCs I've heard in real life and here on BO.net ^To that I say "WTF do you think YOUR job is now that you've spent 8 years flying jets and completing your upgrade "normal development" ???