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Yep, that probably applies to 99% of the Army. I can count on one hand the number of Army dudes I’ve worked with who I think actually have a clue about what they can and should do in PACOM. I’m also primarily talking regular Army. Higher functioning SOF dudes are a different story.

Very subjective as no two careers look the same. I probably had around 1500 hrs fighter time at my 10 yr point (~1800 TT including UPT/a year of BIT). That was all AD. My rough guess is a full time guard guy in fighters gets around 169 hrs per year if not deployed; add some more hours for a deployment year.

Not to mention additional capes the Army provides in that AOR. It’s just a shame the DOD gives said capes/missions to a bunch of dumbasses (not to say there are no smart people involved, but they are an extreme minority).

Makes getting flagged by Joe’s 240 in the chow hall not seem as bad in comparison.

( . )( . ) fixed it for you…I’ll see myself out.

To be fair, look at Keith Richards, Ozzy, and grandpa who smoked 3 packs a day from age 12 and is still alive at 103. Outliers exist.

Army: O-6+ are mostly complete retards Air Force: O-6+ are mostly pussies Navy: O-6+ are mostly closet C-suite at Grindr Marines: Actually kind of have their shit together, but are too poor to do much

Oh look, another retired GO talking out of his ass, I’m shocked!

He doesn’t have access to USAF flight phys or flight med. Not sure what equivalent exists in the civ world outside of AME, who I’ve never heard of doing physio type stuff (but maybe there are some?)

OTS? I guess I could see that, but OTS has always been the worst way to get to flying from a probability of success perspective. Any other route to flying isn’t going to care.

The AF doesn’t give a shit about degree type or pedigree, just that you check the box to commission.

No one will top that fini flight! (in the airlines)

Your best bet is to score flying with other units. Your CC should help facilitate that. It won’t likely be the amount or consistency you really want, but it’ll keep your “head above water” flying-wise until the future aircraft course. Consider things like: - Augment another unit’s deployment, TDYs, etc. - Go TDY every 6 weeks or so to get a couple sorties with another unit - Look into ability to PCS to another unit for a couple years until the new aircraft training timing is right - Is there a TX available to attend earlier and you go to another unit with the new aircraft for a while until home unit has the new aircraft? All of these options are tried and true. Talk to your CC about all of them.

Are you taking about filling the time gap between losing your current aircraft and going to training for the next aircraft?

Tangentially related, my mom complains to me yesterday about the gov pulling the rug out from her regarding SS changes. I said, “well yeah, it’s the gov. They’re retarded with money and will screw you over at every opportunity that comes their way.” The gov will always fuck you when convenient for them. The bonus system fuckery is in their wheelhouse!

All their eggs in the Boeing basket

@Lawman Is there a direct WO track off the street, or do you have to do X years before boarding/applying/whatever for WO?

I don't get why you would go to the Army if you wanted FW. You have two other options that have far more FW and have far less bad deals.

Nailed it. But given the choice, I’d still rather do fucked up no-notices than fucked up “prep bullshit for 6-9 months” inspections (then let it all wither for 2-3 years and repeat). Either way you’re fucked, but at least you didn’t waste 6-9 mo of your life pulling 12 hr queep days on MICT, etc.

LOL. That’s some solid gaslighting right there.

He’d bust the P-area…trump’s fault.

Good riddance dumbass.

I was allowing for a “reasonable” amount of time (subjective of course) for the average person to sort through it; the ones with legit critical thinking and problem solving skills figured it out much faster.

The most logical reason I can think of is she’s holding out for Trump to be convicted of something that legally prevents him from being President and she can “swoop” in and take the nomination. It’s a low probability of success gameplan, but she probably doesn’t give a shit as long as the money is there.

That was known at least a couple years ago, but of course there was a massive effort to suppress said information. Similarly I got a good laugh out of Fauci recently admitting the 6 ft distancing rule was basically pulled out of his ass and had no scientific data to support it (keep in mind the rest of the world did 1m from the beginning).