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That mall is associated with the ST-IN groundtrack, if my recollection of T-6 PIT is still halfway right.

I was literally doing my egress rehack at RND today, thinking fuck why do I have to take the day off to rehash this shit. Then this happens on my way out the gate. Martin Baker FTW.

It's not just relationships, the ARMY made the argument hot chicks are a legitimate distraction towards mission accomplishment, by asserting ugly women in PR efforts retains more credibility. It was a bit hyperbolic of an argument, plus it fell flatter than a MAGA comedian at the Apollo, but there you go. A lot are thinking it, someone (the ARMY, go figure) was bound to blurt it out publicly. I don't live in the world of what things should be, I live in the world of what things are. As long as men are always thirsty fuckers, thristy Fucketry around sexually marketable women (deployed or not) will endure. I'm not trying to make an endorsement here, I'm just saying....

Quick FB search shows they're still together.

huggy, we know you have fond memories of the place. That's great. I did my time at DLF as both a single and a family man. And the latter almost didn't happen, thanks to that place. The Lost Decade affected us all, not just airline folks. So let's keep things in perspective. I don't think it's a matter of sympathy, but I can tell you categorically that assignment was a hard inflection point in both my personal and professional life. This isn't just about FAIP pussy grabbing on the weekends or some other sophomoric shit, it's about a lot of other opportunity costs that affect the direction of a household in ways I would expect a family man to understand. I also have it as fact I did a much longer consecutive stint than you did at the place, so I'm qualified to call bullshit on the implication the place is devoid of opportunity costs. Which is another way of saying: Anybody can hold their breath for 3.5 years (PCS outprocessing pussyfooting around don't count). It's not the end of the world, I don't disagree, but let's not be so dismissive the legitimate costs that the place carries on folks with other life circumstances. That's all I'm saying.

They're citing GO-1 over on FB as to the reason they killed the dog. It's a tough job you know, storming the CENTCOM beaches of Normandy. What a painful pantomime of life this organization has become. Anthony Swofford shacked it imo when interviewed about it 15 or so years ago.

In that spirit, fleshlights in care packages might help too, asking for a friend of course....

200? T-6 touchdown speed is 80 knots bruh if you make even a halfassed attempt at flaring. You're at 50 knots in <1500 feet. Much closer to a piston single than a T-38 for instance. I'd still take the seat though, these airplanes are not national treasures.

Direct to Viper (Kelly). Feedback so far is not good. But this is third hand RUMINT so don't quote me.

BTW, this goes beyond gossipy drama, the DoD wastes tons of talent every year on preventable retention losses over point blank basing/PCS decisions. It's not like there is a shortage of middle managers....oh wait a minute. But you warrior monks keep talking about personal moral bankruptcy being the problem. lol

Spoken like a RND baby.

My bad, hard to decipher inflection by pictures.

Indeed. The Department of State is our real daddy, and they certainly remind us who is the pitcher and who is the catcher in that relationship. I think the Taliban extended us more deference in the field than the rank and file DoS suitcase warrior.

Ah yes, "the military should only be staffed by childless people/garrison people shouldn't be allowed to serve in uniform" canard. Couldn't find my salt shaker for lunch today, thanks for the glove save! LOL

@ 0kts 0AGL maybe, if my students are any indication....otherwise there wouldn't be CR/CAP/FEB. I digress.

Oh, ok, I assumed you were informed since you posted on the PIT thread. I don't know why you put proposal in quotes. BL, you're not getting rid of ME internationals from regular UPT. ENJJPT won't have them by charter, and if PIT were to change to intl UPT only they're not the demographic slated for it, per AETC's proposal.

I don't condone the practice, as I find it part of the reason the AFRC has gone to hell in the aggregate imo. TRs these days don't seem to care as they're too busy gloating about the part time life. They really should care though, as it affects them by proxy. Specifically, lack of discrimination when it comes to vetting these candidates, many horrid AD sycophants have been allowed to come in and ruin the place. That said, I have peers and coworkers who belong to the direct hire demographic, some are good people, others are terrible hiring mistakes. So I know I'm in mixed company. It's nothing personal, I just find it a bad practice in the collective. At any rate, doesn't seem to bother units much anymore due to the hiring dynamics at the airlines. So go fetch and good luck.

But that's not at all what the international UPT being proposed is actually about. This is a very niche good-fairy initiative not related to the international populations currently being trained at non-ENJJPT locations. This proposal relates to adding a different demographic altogether. As such, you could just tell the current participating countries that we can't take the load (sts) at UPT bases, and still attain the supposed efficiencies you calculated on the back of your napkin. Of course, we know that's not gonna happen since the DoS treats us DoD folks like the booger-eating uneducated help. So what's more likely to transpire is the Moody UPT re-opening and finally actually doing more with more (much to the AF chagrin). RND would still be in a position to only be able to serve a niche program in terms of yearly volume, much like it currently does with PIT. RND really doesn't effect efficiencies in terms of pilot production regardless of what mission is based here. Airspace and mx (read: OPM civilian obstructionism) cap the ability of RND to take on a UPT base level of production. Moody can though, and probably will. This isn't an argument for keeping PIT here from me btw; I'd much prefer to fly RCP with a UPT stud, if I could do it at this location. But I recognize the production volume isn't in the cards in this slice of Central TX, so the production value would be of limited use versus a traditional non-HQ, UPT base.

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It's an old buddhist martial art called 'edging' bro. Read up on it when you're ready to step up the smash game. BL, when it comes times to (and I quote the legendary Dio here) ride the Tiger, you are inside (not sts) the slam-mat's TC the entire time. They always come back for more. It's the real sport of kings afaic.

All I can say is that the way I was treated during TI at the UPT base was absolute garbage. No shit I think it took 2.5 months. Literally, getting on the schedule once a week. I had plenty to do at my own squadron; if it's not a priority for them it wasn't gonna be for me either as a hired gun. Complete afterthought. But I was absolutely shocked, I almost went back to the -6 in disgust (which is funny, went through 38 PIT so quick I was still current for a local checkout in the 6 if I had wanted to LOL). It was not a priority at all to get the TI guys through. OTOH, I certed at PIT in two weeks to include inprocessing. I always found that ironic in the context of the accusation of PIT being a halfway house for rent-seekers. Plenty of people hussling when I got here. Granted, a lot of running around in the VR side of the squadron, but that wasn't their fault. Those were just the marching orders of the month. I'm not defending the merits of in-house PIT versus not. I really could give zero fvcks about that, as the "help". Is it really about this though? Or is it like @Lifer sugests, that this is really about a "good location schadenfreude" type of thing? Fwiw, I'd have no quarrel teaching UPT at RND. i enjoyed the mission set. If it wasn't for the location, I would have kept doing it. The idea of getting to do it here is actually something I may look forward to. Intl UPT would suck only because I don't agree with many of our political alliances, so I feel my talent would be wasted/would be half-hearted. I'm not saying I'd turn into an Oskar Schindler, but you know, "consider the effort you're gonna put into this oligarchic, misogynist chain smoking POS" type of thing LOL. At any rate, I'd much prefer life in the RCP to be completely honest.

Some people would argue that allowing comm to touch it would be the one sure fire way of ensuring any implementation fails. It is beyond ironic that the viability of development of the VR suites unashamedly relies on its decoupling from the AF net systems (wireless or otherwise) in order to not screech to a halt. The very systems being used as monikers for the AF tech innovation mind you.

I told you cotton-pickers Massa is not in the business of bartering with his human property. That's not rhetorical; they literally mean that. That's why the CSAF guidance feels like double-speak to you all. The point of the ADSC is to utilize labor at-will, in ways the civilian support structure has the legal ability to say no to. And they do, which is why our mx is broken and can't surge with the whims of the ops side, while we spear chuck at each other pointlessly. Labor surge-demands such as the VR implementation is but one of a thousands of examples how regAF burns through its human capital, exacerbating the retention problem regAF doesn't consider a bona fide problem in the first place. You guys think of middle managament retention woes as the bug, they consider it the feature! It's called the devil's money for a reason. Are we all new here or something?...

Is this dude for real? Look @katdude, you're not special. Wanna check back with TAMI-21, or BRAC 05 folks (for us AFRC brethren), to see how that worked? Newsflash: the fighter pilot shortage is an illusion. It's not cockpits they're short bodies for, it's 11F rated staff weenies (that's O4 and above generally) that they're short on, while calling it an 11F shortage. That makes late-to-the-party dreamers like you get the false impression you're in some sort of buyer's market for your services in a fighter cockpit, when it comes to stomping and demanding your fighter dream. You've been misled if that is your understanding of the dynamics of present hiring. If I was a heavy unit, I wouldn't want you taking the trash out for my unit. If you don't want to fly heavies, don't fly heavies. Go duke it out at the regionals or go to medical school and pay for your own L-39 on your own dime. Otherwise, STFU and get in before you get slammed out. Timing and luck, there is no justice. Nobody is gonna jump over their own ass to get some nobody UPT candidate an ETP to go fly fighters. Unless you're a legacy case or a woman, that's just not the market environment we're in. And by going Active Duty, you risk the chance of sucking at UPT (I can just see the quibbling), or at the very least not hitting the right class in the FY, and not getting a fighter anyways regardless of performance. Yes, even in this so-called shortage environment. Here's the bottom line truth: You had your fighter epiphany too late. Time to own up to that fact. There's people who start at 18 and all they want to do is fly fighters, and never get it. Ask me how I know. And you rolled out of bed at 29 and said "fighters or go home", plus cop an attitude about the fact the ETP process is not more forgiving, based on no-shit bad gouge/read regarding the hiring market for USAF pilots in the first place? GTFO here with that shit.

Northrop had it pegged at 8k hours iirc. We're circa 18K in most of the PIT/UPT fleet. IFF as mentioned before, are bent to sH@t. About the only thing that appeases me about my career airframe, is that seat.