brabus

It can’t be repeated enough - Biden/Harris admin is completely negligent and incompetent. No rational person sees all of this bullshit and thinks, “yep, we’re on the right track and I want 4 more years of this.”

Regarding the hurricane related efforts, at best the Biden-Harris admin is grossly negligent and incompetent, and at worst is acting maliciously. It is absolutely insane and anti-American what they are doing/not doing down there. The buck stops with leadership, Biden/Harris are ultimately to blame for this colossal fuck show.

FIFY

Pictured: Huggy when he is told 700’ is dog shit position quality

Probably meant Hill Reserves

@Lord Ratner Please tell me if you fly with one of those you then say something like, “my apologies Captain dude.” Never have flown with a dude who wants to be addressed as captain, but I don’t doubt they’re out there. Seems to be fleet dependent a lot at DAL, at least from bro rumors.

I agree with you mostly, just saying there are things that have been, and will continue to be, accomplished that have prevented strategic/national level negative things from occurring. Again, not said in defense of all the shitheads (civ and mil) who are in charge, but just saying good accomplishments do occur at the strategic/national level - they’re just not advertised (and they’re the minority compared to all the dumbassery and failure).

I get your angst, and I’m right there with you bashing all the bullshit, but we sure as fuck have a better/different world than we would have if XYZ hadn’t been accomplished. It’s just that XYZ much of the time is purposely not well circulated knowledge. That’s not an excuse for all the idiocy and failures, but good stuff still happens and great things are accomplished at times.

The old “if you wear sunglasses on your head, how can I trust you to fly an airplane” form of “leadership.” Bottom line, this guy is a complete non-mission oriented pussy. He’ll go far in this AF.

Diddy’s bottle of baby oil: Biff’s “bottle”:

Today to hired: 2 yrs (most do more than that, but we’ll assume 2 for now) Hire to actually start UPT: 1-2 years, best case currently UPT to FTU grad: 2.5 years Even before the current UPT slot shitshow, it was 3-4 yrs from UPT board to showing back up to squadron. That does not account for the time spent putting apps in, rushing, and interviewing.

Greatest advice any new guy can read here.

Honest answer: I don’t think you have a realistic chance at ANG/AFRC fighters. Age, scores, 16 hrs of flight time, etc. Even if you maxed out scores and had hundreds of hours, your age is nearly a guaranteed deal breaker. If you were hired tomorrow, you wouldn’t show back up to the squadron until age 40…age 40 is very old to be a LT in a fighter squadron and starting at the bottom. Now account for your competition being nearly half your age with phenomenal apps, no kids or businesses to manage, etc. Lastly, UPT slots are in a drought for ANG for the next couple years-ish, so really you’d be 42-43 by the time you’re back at a squadron, and that’s still assuming you got hired in 1-2 years. Honestly I don’t think you’d enjoy that hypothetical life, even if you think you would at this moment in time. My advice is accept reality and do not burn your time/money rushing fighter units. Chase fun/exciting flying on the civ side. It’ll take some time to get there, but there is a lot of awesome flying out there that is exciting and challenging - don’t need a fighter to check those boxes. I cannot speak for heavy units, perhaps they are more open to someone in your position. If you have a strong desire to fly mil, then maybe go that route. Hopefully some heavy bros in the ANG/AFRC will chime in. I know none of this is what you want to hear, but it’s not helpful for someone to blow smoke up your ass.

@Sua Sponte That sounds like par for the course.

How many ex-wives did he have!

How did our society become so egregiously retarded? It’s insane.

No judgement, I just have never understood the thought process of volunteer for a shit deal because it’ll “guarantee” you something good on the back side.

Dang. Where was that?

Never understood AFPAK volunteers. Go do years of your life in a massive shit hole for a war that ended in failure (we all knew it would), all so you can be “guaranteed” a life-sucking job of command, complete waste of time school, and O-6 in this disaster of an organization. It’s like these people love non-stop kicks in the junk.

Ouch, that sucks. But at least you can forget about those days and go rip around in an RV!

@kaputt Hopefully you’re right! I don’t think it’s necessarily a high threat, just the only threat along those lines that would ever be plausible for a legacy at this point.

Racial milestones? Copy, AF leadership are a bunch of racist fucks.

Interesting, didn’t know that. The real issue potentially coming is legacies swallowing regionals - the fuck if some regional guy goes above me on the SL!

I wonder how they’re dealing with seniority…staple or integrate based on DOH or some other criteria? I hope I’m never in the middle of that kind of a potential shitshow.

LGS, Dead Air Sierra 5 Individual. Trusts are still taking way too long from what I hear. I stopped doing the trust route 2x NFA items ago.