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Regs might have changed in the 12 years since I bypassed SV-80 with my NAS Brunswick certificate. Find the source reg directing the SERE requirements (which looks like what they were quoting) Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

SERE? No. Who's telling you otherwise? Might have to dig into the actual regs (get used to it, part and parcel of the AF experience) Water survival? Yes. (I know, you've been trained to swim by the worlds largest Navy: the AF doesn't give a shit.) Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Yeah, CPIP had all of those suggestions as well. Obviously, they didn't make the cut. Or criteria. Or something. Because, you know, Offutt, of course! ...Kirtland? Wtf is wrong with you, man? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

That's weird. Is there excess Phase III capacity at SPS? Under producing Phase II? Regardless, I'd bet it's a welcome upgrade for the lucky two (Enid to WF). Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

First off, the AF is telegraphing its punch: which base clearly shows that the CPIP executive summary was skimmed briefly before the entire report was fed into the shredder in keeping with the highest of AF tradition? The MCE base is going to be Offutt. The second base will be Eglin, to take advantage of the ranges. Yes, Slingblade would correctly point out that you now have two locations in the same time zone, against all common sense, reason, and published conclusions of the CPIP, to which the AF will reply: Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Well, he said "no offense" which lies somewhere between "with all due respect" and academic non-attribution. Sounds legit.

I got asked by my teenage daughter my thoughts on the massive flow of refugees from the Middle East. I explained that should trouble arise, we might make a similar journey. But at some point, when the guns had faded from earshot, and I could calculate a certain level of safety for my loved ones, that we would part ways. That is the difference between our culture, and others that have been ground into an apathetic flight response.

Nope. Too early for predictions? In 2020 there will be another round of CPIP, which will reflect back on AF, GAO, and Rand studies published in 2008, 2012, 2014, and...2016. And around we will go!

Stayed with it. Ballsy

No arguments here. My beloved MAJCOM is the reason we're going through the third iteration of "fixing" the RPA business model, but I'd put my next paycheck on a table in Vegas that, yes, the RPA community will still look like a Vietnamese Under Armor sweatshop when the issue gets raised again in 6-9 years.

You don't have to accept continuation if it is offered. If continuation is offered, it only means that you don't get separation pay on the way out.

There's still a lot of commanders out there with the anachronistic mindset that no matter how under-resourced, everything will get done. Ok, but you're paying the cost out of somewhere, even if you refuse to acknowledge or quantify that cost. Typically it's on the backs of Airmen (creative leave policies, long days, the list goes on). But hey, MY SQ/GP/WG got everything done, that's what really matters.

Actually capitalizing on a stable of T-38 trained bodies by allowing them IFF slots would open up all manner of worm cans, not the least of which would lead to minor slowing of the 11F tsunami. Take your common sense elsewhere.

For every year that you sign up for the bonus, you are committed. Seems simple enough.

Prior: tell me how I didn't have the same commitment?

Shuddup Nav!

While I agree with you in principle, the counterpoint is that there have been plenty of pilots, from all walks, who "learned" stuff in their respective pipelines, and then packed it in to much media fanfare. Including Mil pilots. Yeah, I think the new ATP rules could have a MUCH bigger cutout for Mil, but the opposing forces (puppy mil ERU, ND, Perdue, All-ATPs, etc) would have dragged us back to 300hr wonders in the right seat of an RJ. ...pick your poison. At the end of the day, an end of ADSC Mil guy still has a logbook that the civ guys can't complete with.

Nothing written up in the TDY gouge section; TDY to NFARS for a few weeks. Lodging? WiFi quality in said lodging? Gym? Local eats? Send it!

But it's okay, because you are required to stay on base, so at least you have that going for you.

Oh, then by all means, enlighten us, the unwashed. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649655/How-Brussels-spends-money-grows-trees-devastating-dispatch-reveal-Eurocrats-live-life-staggering-excess-10-000-earn-PM-s-150-000-taking-decisions-affect-lives-secret.html Seems me that Brits made a call. You might not agree with it, but drop the righteous indignation. Don't get me wrong, there are counterpoints: https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber/amp# But maybe Andy Borowitz and John Oliver aren't as smart as they are witty https://hbr.org/2013/06/the-european-union-a-failed-ex

They scoff as a function of their own dissonance; confirmation bias. Vetter's post contained all of the essential elements: -Choice of whether or not he would help--no obligation to be a "Yes Man" -He chooses to live in base, substantially improving his QoL -He may choose to bid another base when he becomes more senior -He then may choose to relocate, or commute if if that is more advantageous -He was immediately rewarded for helping out -He may at some point trade some QoL for an earlier upgrade; seat, iron, or both -OR, he may get kicked to the curb at the next market correction or merger. Who the fvck knows Based on his posting history, he (like a lot of us) might trade a sizable chunk of the above for more time in a USAF tail, but not at the expense of being marginalized and commoditized on some spreadsheet

Interesting? Exercises Promotion? Inspection--esp if you take the WG through the next capstone. Flying? ADO, hands down.

GMAMFB! The AF loves to tout how cheap RPAs are in one argument, and then how ridiculously expensive they are in the next. Typically, whichever angle the AF is arguing, is BS. (For the record, over the horizon, distributed Drone ops is fvckin retahdid expensive) How much did it cost to wire Ft Smith, AR, and a half dozen other ANG locations for droids? THERES your cost. It's not some obscene number that gets thrown around after the staff cooks the books all weekend to defend that bullsh!t rice bowl NW of Vegas.

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[usually around 2 in the afternoon during the last week of the month] "Oh, hey there MCC, I'd like to get scheduled in 5 different GCSs for 0.2 each."