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Yeah...I'm not worried about getting fired. Frankly, I wish I was in a VSP-eligible AFSC. Letting some folks out early and paying them is an interesting problem, but I don't really see it as a strategic issue. These folks are likely to punch at the end of their ADSC anyway. Why rated retention is low damn well should be solved, but I see that as separate than the execution of Force Shaping. We're sending airplanes to the bone-yard and passing out pink slips simply because we're forced to keep a bloated infrastructure in place. In some cases, we're going to fire people with nearly a decade and a half worth of experience who want to keep serving and otherwise have good enough records to stay in... we ought to be very judicious about how we do that. The agitated pilot crowd may be more annoyed with VSP and TERA execution... but that's really small pebbles.

Boys, let's be real... at any company, you'd never know how many of what flavor of person will get a pink slip when the company is short on operating funds unless you're management or HR. It's the clarity of our process that drives the frustration. It's not that we're fucked up... It's that we're openly fucked up.

True, but at least they're adapting and realizing holes or poor assumptions. That didn't happen in 2011. Good DCA doesn't happen on the first leaf ...the skill is in the skates and recommits.

Credit where credit is due.... At least AFPC is trying to sort it out prior to handing out pink slips.

Yeah... That was sarcasm there.

Well, why not use jalapeño flavored seasoning?

This sounds like something right with the AF. Airman does something dumb. Senior NCOs roll in. Problem is solved.

What was it that Rainman's used to say about talking with the media? Hopefully... Sean Cullen is your porno stage name. Otherwise, I don't see this ending well... Let us know how it goes.

It should be for both. On top of that, STRD is used to determine whose ticket APFC pulls for 179s. The OP probably doesn't have a STRD or an AEF return date loaded yet, so all those indicators are making him hot for a 179. Garbage in, garbage out.

Devil's advocate here: Maybe these charts should have been labeled "problem areas" vice priorities. I would hope, as professionals, our ability to "Fly the jets" is working without issue and the wing staff is focusing on things they aren't actually experts in.

I thought 179s didn't even hit the wings anymore. That's all done by the AFPC AEF sausage grinder. The only time the wing comes in is if you want to swap, you can swap within your wing. This whole scenario makes me think the AFPC AEF section hasn't caught on to the fact that Flare is already deployed. I know 11Fs are short, but I refuse to believe were at the point of breaching min dwell time to support all the dumb 11F taskings.

FWIW, the biggest doucher I've ever met in the AF was a pilot... As was the worst GO I've every been under. Fucking pilots.

A proposition where a guy could fly for his entire career at one unit, never move, while making a six figure salary, and retiring at 60 sounds like a good one to me. Essentially, this is how every other AF in the world runs ...I think we can make it work. The real problem everyone seems to be hitting on isn't really the idea of an integrated wing, its the fact that there's way to much bureaucracy on Active Duty. That's a significant problem, and it has nothing to do with how we organize the reserve forces. It's been quite some time (Persian Gulf I), where we actually used our reserve forces in a reserve capacity. Now, they're every bit as vital as the active units ...we should organize as such.

This is probably a good thing in the long run. More reservists means more continuity, less PCS actions, and reduced personnel costs over the long haul. Consolidating all the little Reserve bases onto the bigger bases will save on infrastructure costs and allow some of that savings to go back to airframe acquisitions/sustainment and operations.

360 Feedback has been implemented by the Navy after a few tyrants who made it to skipper got canned.... I'd like to know how effective its been. In the outside world, it's become a great tool for separating the slave drivers from those you'd follow anywhere. I hope the AF doesn't f-away the implementation...

I see WalMart as leading the way in "smart renewables." They're choosing green technologies in places where in makes sense, and they're not afraid to say "Great... But coal is dirt cheap. We'll keep using fossil fuels when they are the most cost effective." Contracts for leasing solar panel space in exchange for locked in energy prices are being let out of Bentonville.

If I were management, I'd do one absolutely bloody round of cuts and then get on with getting on. Rolling cuts over a 5 year period wastes time, resources, and puts too many people on edge. ....so we'll probably have a five-year cycle of cuts. AHHH! Why is the form shorter/different? Please...somebody make it the same size and shape as a PRF so those in promotion years can just cut and paste. The only differences should be the title at the top, the form number at the bottom, and the statements "Definitely Retain, Retain, and Do Not Retain" vice "Definitely Promote, Promote, and Do Not Promote." For the 2005 year group, there should only be one board to determine both O-4 selects and RIF-selects.

I'm working on my MBA while still trying to mine the salt on active duty. If I jump ship, I'm looking for more operations and management than finance. Any big-picture advice for making the leap out of mother blue?

For the '03 year group, RRFs were due a few months before PRFs. It worked out ok.

I told some Lts to go make a bad-ass shirt that's approvable by an O-6. They're moving out.

I see it as "more likely" vice "more important." How many POWs/MOH recipients are there? Of those, how many would fall below the grey zone? I see the guy with a narrative RRF from the last duty station as potentially getting screwed. This gives the Board President a chance to say "The AF thought highly enough of this guy to send him to school. Now, his board score indicates a clean kill for separation... That doesn't jive, Let's look into this."

Its not that there's "nothing redeeming" about a full AF career... its more that the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits for some. The AF's HR system (even when compared to other services) is a joke, young leaders feel crushed by the bureaucracy, and there's a very apparent disconnect between the CSAF's message ("If a regulation doesn't make sense, then don't do it") and what is actually being executed (Q3s for everyone!). The AF has trained us to make spot decisions with incomplete information that risks millions in equipment and lives, and we do it pretty damn well. The outside world very much values that skillset ...while the AF seems culturally aloof to the idea of efficiency or reform. Pay isn't the issue. The Chief is right...the AF has serious cultural issues. Unfortunately, they have little to do with sexual assault. It's more that innovation and efficiency are stifled in favor of keeping the status quo. Simply put: the AF is not a rewarding or satisfying place to work at most of the time. Everything from the assignment system, to promotions, to our inability to get bad (but not criminal) leaders out plays a part. The most valuable and most innovative sector of the AF work force is trying to leave wholesale: alarm bells should be ringing in Arlington. Some are deciding that staying in just to reach retirement isn't the right reason to stay. I thank them for their service. The anonymity of BaseOps provides a place to vent. At the same time, your troops are professional enough to not display their anger/frustration to you. The ground truth is probably somewhere between BaseOps and your present perception of reality.

Some are. There's this duality in the AF: AFSCs we can't let go (even if they want to) and AFSCs we want reduced (even if most in those careers want to stay in).

Most everyone in my MBA classes are getting some form of Tuition Assistance from their company. I'm surprised at just how poor the AF's program is in comparison.

Did he have the record to back that up?