silverwolf0911

Eh, probably not. However, his cousin probably could!

The first test didn't have any kind of review questions or anything. I had to actually read/skim it to pass the test. I don't remember the questions being obscure... Most were pretty common sense. Test 2 and 3 had review questions. I suggest you skip the lessons and go straight for these. And keep refreshing the page because it presents you with new questions... After a few refreshes, you pretty much see all of them. The tests were almost word for word the same questions as these review ones. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Thanks. I did some searching thru the JFTR and found these: Quote Quote Spoke with my approving official and I think I'm good w/o the non-A slip.

I've got a strange question that may seem a bit unique. I am currently TDY. When I called the base inn to book lodging prior to my trip, I was told they were all full and they'll issue me a non-availability letter. They could only fax it to me since their email was down that day...I was told to come by when I arrive in town to pick it up. So, I go ahead and book an off-base hotel for my stay. On my travel day in (a Sunday), I called the base lodging to ask if I needed to come on base to pick up the non-availability letter BEFORE I check into the off-base hotel. I preferred to just pick up the letter when I come on base the next day (on Mon) when I'll be on base anyways for work. I wasn't sure if the "effective date" or "issue date" or whatever equivalent was based on when it was issued (when I called ahead of time) or when I picked it up (Sunday, my travel day). I also had a ~2hr drive from the airport to the hotel, the base was another 20 mins out, and the wx was going to shit... so I didn't want to drive out to base and back to my hotel in the shitty wx just to pick up a letter. Anyways, the lady on the phone said I could just pick up the non-avail letter whenever because it was already input in their system. So I checked into the off-base hotel and all was well--or so I thought. On Monday, I drove by base lodging and now they said they can't give me the non-availability letter. At this point, due to the shitty wx, they had a lot of cancellations. So now they have rooms available and so she can't issue me the letter. My question is whether the letter was already "issued" when I first called and attempted to book a room? My thought is... if I had a fax machine and they faxed it before I even left for this trip, I would be good to go. But due to that logistical issue (which seems trivial), no letter for me? Ideally, I'd like there to be some rule or something I can show base lodging that will "make" them print me this letter so I can claim my voucher appropriately. Also, I don't mind moving hotels to get on base (even though that's a huge pain in the ass)... I just don't want to be forced to pay for the difference in lodging costs for the days I spent in the off-base hotel. Any thoughts?

You got it. Here's the link with more detailed information for those inclined: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=8080&page=1 Also, on the SPO side (now called AFLCMC), it's extremely top heavy in 14/15s... there are so many of these folks running around. So not *every* 14/15 supervises other folks. Most do, but I wouldn't say it's 100%. On a side note, I saw a GS-13 at work clicking thru ACSC and asked him about it. Apparently, they are being told that to be "promotable" to GS-14, he needs ACSC done. And AWC for for GS-15... PME is bleeding over slowly but surely...

Saw this on af.mil: https://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/467802/af-to-mandate-organizational-command-climate-on-evaluation-feedback-forms.aspx Does this mean what I think it means? We'll be seeing updated EPR/OPR forms in a few weeks? Mandatory bullets about "healthy organizational climate"

For the 2nd and 3rd courses, the self-review questions were really helpful. I would suggest that you go through those questions, hit refresh, and do it again. Over and over until it seems like you've seen every self-review question in the test bank. Then on test day at the education center, the test questions might look awfully familiar.... even if you didn't do any of the linked readings (just did the html files and the self-review questions).

I've heard about this from leadership where I'm at. My boss is in my career field's DT. And he generally does a "DT ou tbrief" for anyone who wants to come.... sort of his way to teach the young guys what DTs do, how vectors work, etc. In the out brief he gave from the this past summer's DT, he basically said what Liquid said above. I have the brief he gave if anyone's interested (.mil email address). Edit: Note that I'm a 62E (developmental engineer)... so the info I got is geared primarily for us acquisition types. But I'd imagine there would be some similarities.

In fact, we salute all senior officers of any of the SEVEN uniformed services--even the ones that are definitely not considered "military" and or "noncombatant uniformed services" (i.e., PHSCC and NOAA Corps). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_United_States Random knowledge. Enjoy the reads! P.S. Wikipedia is your friend.

Saw this link on my Facebook today. https://imgur.com/a/sUrnA Besides the creepiness -- wow, imagine if a bombing of this magnitude can be solved through crowd sourcing. A whole new use for social media...

I was always told to call them "senior." I wouldn't use that casual term in a formal setting like a promotion or during a meeting. And I wouldn't use it with the person's name. It's of a nickname. For example, I'd call a person 'senior' but not 'Senior Snuffy.' I'd say its similar to calling someone "el-tee." You'd never call a guy "El-tee LastName" but you sure call a lot of lieutenants "el-tee." And I'm well aware it is technically against the AFI. But I've just lumped this under the nickname category (like el-tee, callsigns, etc).

How does he know? Was your Wg/CC on the promotion board? Or did the senior leaders get some kind of out brief from the board that gave them the cliff notes of how the board operated?

Does that mean that in in FY15, there would only be ~1500 commissionees? That's going to cause all kinds of long term effects for Big Blue... Earlier this month, I saw the below article from Lt Gen Jones about protecting our "seed corn" so we don't have the "bathtub" effect that could negatively impact the AF for 20 years. I was hoping that meant AFROTC EA and FT slots would be protected even with all the budget woes & sequestration... https://www.homestead.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123338441

The article said that these MRAPs were donated by the DoD... so I don't think it cost the DHS anything--except, perhaps, the modifications. Which by the way, I thought the same thing about how dumb it is to to have a MRAP but put the agents on the outside when you roll up on the "enemy."

You mean like in this article: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2013/02/air-force-AC130s-020713w