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Absolutely need more flying hours, as most of the young guy issues are lacking airmanship and decision making skills (specifically decision making while handling an aircraft in a real, dynamic environment…e.g. cannot be replicated in a sim). From a tactical proficiency perspective, we need sims to take a 6-9 year leap yesterday. 5G perspective: In a perfect world we’d train to missionized stuff primarily in the sim environment and do primarily part-task training in live fly. Bottom line: more flying needed, but also need meaningful sim training environments that are accessible daily at the wing level.

Another $2.5B to UKR…totally nothing that needs money here in the US, this makes complete sense.

@Clark Griswold Yes more flight time would help, but the major problem is cultural: lowering standards (both official and unofficial) to unacceptable levels in the name of meeting subjective goals on a spreadsheet (X amount of pilots, Y amount of insert-qual, etc.) Phase 1 fix is establish reasonable standards and hold everyone to them. If that means 80% of a UPT class washes out, then so be it. If that means 50% of the B course class washes out, so be it. If that means chuckle nuts just can’t seem to pass FLUG after 3 years in the CAF, then thanks for your service, good luck in your future, non-fighter flying endeavors. You’re on your second or third willfully unsafe flight incident (not mistake, but you meant to do it), then it’s not sit for a week or two punishment, it’s you’re done flying, enjoy the rest of your ADSC in the non-flying world. Phase 2 is based on the attrition seen after a year or two of phase 1 implementation, then determine what must change in training and CT requirements to reduce the attrition. That could be a lot of things, not just flying hours. Also I know I’m rapidly approaching old man yelling at cloud status. There are many phenomenal young dudes out there crushing it. But there are way more guys out there today (vs. yesterday) who should not be where they are due to relaxed standards and their IPs/leaders not having the fortitude and/or judgement to call a spade a spade.

Lack of quality training/holding students to a specified criteria, which sets them up for failure. I don’t think the younger generation is less capable to learn than previous ones or has a different mix of people on the spectrum of can’t fly worth shit to God’s gift to an aviation. The difference is the younger generations aren’t provided the learning/training experiences they need compared to previous generations, combined with not being held to standards. This enables them to go do things/gain quals that their older counterparts never would have been allowed to do/have at the same career point.

Not just Luke, and from talking with bros, its community agnostic. The timeline/“required numbers” can’t afford busts, so pass them, and if you won’t pass them (e.g. a patch), then we’ll find someone who will (e.g. the brand new IP who probably shouldn’t even be a FL). Bottom line, the CAF should bitch about AETC, but they should also do some introspection and realize they are very much a part of the problem (not so much in the guard).

In some places, yes. For example, when you have inexperienced IPs as IPOR (vs. a patch) for an IPUG, you’ve lost.

It’s fully earned. But also the CAF is not innocent in their own actions. The B-course is AETC, but it’s still fully staffed and ran by fighter pilots - so I consider that the CAF for purposes of this discussion. They pass guys that have no business passing, just like down stream. Then you get to CAF bases where leadership stops letting some guys fly upgrades with patches because the patches won’t pass them, so the fix is not take the guy out of the upgrade, but rather to fly him with inexperienced IPs who will pass him…”we’re all good on FLs sir, just got 6 of them through before the deployment!” Root Cause: The AF is filled with pussies who prefer passing the buck over doing the right thing. Like most problems in our country today, it’s a cultural issue, and those are hard to fix once they’ve been allowed to spiral out of control. Side note: On top of all this the AF’s asshatery is unforced error driving those patches mentioned above to disillusionment and the airlines. Good for them, they should go to the airlines. And the AF continues sustaining pipe hitter losses, and senior leadership DGAF. It’s sad.

Guess it depends on what disgruntled means by clown show. If he simply means theatrics (like making Canada the 51st state), then yeah, trump is full of stuff like that. If he means hypocritical theatrics from congress, then also yes, there will be plenty of that. If he means executive level performance on par or worse than the historic disaster of the Biden admin, then I believe he is completely off his rocker and incapable of self-derived rational thought.

Exactly, that’s the rub. Gaetz sucks, but this whole thing is a bait and switch scam in a long line of one-sided, politically targeted attacks with motives that have nothing to do with the “moral high ground” they claim to be about. End that bullshit and equally apply things like this across the entire lot of Congress - only then will there will be credibility and meaning to them. I simply DGAF about what some ass clown committee says when the likes of Pelosi, McConnell, the squad, etc. are running around Congress .

I don’t give a shit about him personally, but I do give a shit about the one-sided witch hunts. The “uniparty” has to die, and shit like this is the hallmark of said group.

The report doesn’t give any evidence, though they like to say “there’s lots of evidence” in it (without sharing). There’s so much evidence that the DOJ investigated him and did not charge him. The guy is as hated as Trump by the weaponized DOJ, and yet zero charges. So that only says one thing: there’s nothing on him, at least legally. Falsehoods have also already been proven, and on top of that it’s clearly a partisan attack (where are all the other ethics reports on everyone else in congress? I’ll hold my breath). This ethics report is bullshit and has zero credibility. I say all this as someone who isn’t sad he’s out of congress, but I will call a spade a spade.

Out of gas 20 min before any of the guys who REALLY need the protection have even pushed.

The data from the bros is unbelievable from the perspective of how benign the situation was and the guys on the boat still fucked up to this extent. There are many people who deserve to have ruined careers over this. Zero sympathy for what comes to those in the chain of command.

I would follow your doctors advice. Firstly, head injuries are nothing to fuck around with. However, what makes you so sure you had one? You clearly had symptoms, assumedly you shared 100% with your doc, who then recommended to go get a scan IF they didn’t get better. Whatever you told him didn’t concern him enough to send you right away. Are they truly getting better/going away? If so, sounds like your doc’s medical opinion is you’re good and don’t need a scan. That statement is solely based on the little info you’ve posted here, so take it with a grain of salt. Don’t fuck with head injuries - if you’re leaving something out here, or with your doc when you talked to him, you should probably go get scanned. Side note, if you want to fly, keep that in the forefront of your mind when you do activities. I’m an adrenaline-driven person, I get it. I still probably do things I shouldn’t, but if you’re doing high risk stuff before you’ve even attempted an FC1, let alone earned wings and started flying mil jets, you’re really risking your dream. I’m not saying worry or become a super risk-adverse person, but maybe don’t race motorcycles or BASE jump (but normal skydiving is relatively safe - go for it), etc.

Yeah I’m sure it does, but it’s still a valid point nonetheless. I loathe people who try to make the guard more like AD.

That’s an interesting perspective, can’t say I disagree. We have to see how it all settles out, but I think we may be seeing a significant shift where the Republicans and Dems have switched places as “the party of the people” and “the party of the elite ruling class, billionaires, etc.” The GOP will really ride this rocket ship if they’re successful (and this will take voters doing their part) at flushing the establishment Rs from their ranks.

I hope that’s true, because that is epic.

Listen to just her first podcast, it’s a straight forward presentation of why she became a Dem (spoiler: was fed a bunch of lies she just took at face value, until many years later when she started invoking critical thought and asking questions). She then describes why she left, honestly a pretty typical story for all the dems turned Rs/Is I know nowadays. In all this though, by no means am I blind faith, just optimistic. If she falls back into supporting left bullshit, I’ll be quick to call her on it.

Holy shit, glad they got out OK. The Admiral is going to have some butts, and a lot of them.

Only once on AD (as a Capt) did I have to do a closed door correction on a SNCO. Never had any negative reactions from it. As SocialD said, don’t be an asshole, but as an officer, grow a fucking pair and act like it (and don’t be wrong when you have to do it).

It’s on the dems AND the willing GOP participants of the establishment (McConnell, Crenshaw, etc.) The people are sick of all the bullshit pork the aforementioned group shoves in bills - so yeah it is their fault. I will also be happy to see the gov shutdown. We’re fiscally out of control more than anytime in history - it has to stop.

Well yeah, I do. It started with listening to her first podcast on why she left the Ds. That episode was over two years ago. Since then I have generally followed her. So to recap, I’ve been paying attention for two years to form my current opinion on her. I’m not really sure what you’re trying to do here, other than deflect from the fact you apparently are very ignorant on Tulsi or just don’t comprehend the general idea of being able to transform opinions and ideas based on changing information over time (and not being a radical tied to the “all or nothing!” mindset on both sides of the aisle that has put our country where it is today).

Remind that dipshit this is the guard - we don’t subscribe to dumbassery like the AD. Go do something productive and mission enhancing sergeant.

Looks like @Biff_T retirement plan is, at least partially, selling patches on the internet:

Agree with Magnum. By all means go bullshit in the bar after work, during a lunch break, whatever. Just be sociable and interested. If you get along well socially and you do a kick ass job (including going the extra mile when you see a need) that’s the 90% solution to getting a slot (in your specific scenario).