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Seconded, aye

Some porches have posted take rates on Portal slides...ouch. Haven't seen take rates on RAW all year...hmmm. Depressingly, NDAA FY19 locked in max AVB of $35K by just stating:overwrite 2018 with 2019 in regards to bonus pays authorization...also ouch. 333(i) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2019’’. (d) AUTHORITIES RELATING TO TITLE 37 CONSOLIDATED SPECIALPAY, INCENTIVE PAY, AND BONUS AUTHORITIES.—The following sec-tions of title 37, United States Code, are amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2018’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2019’ But apparently 365s will be 180s now! And flight pay is up! 😐 ....and the ticker trends yet again downward (literally there are less of us, past 2k now by my calculations, even Navs are down, but wait ABM & RPA increased!)

Humidity does decrease air density, perhaps it's a problem somewhere there or about that in the T-6 OBOGS

Just like a personal credit card, every transaction is coded behind the scenes by Citibank and paired/labelled to a category (ex. Dining, fine dining, entertainment, club, ___-merchandise). Ever seen a USAA spending breakdown? Automatically Citibank flags certain codes (certain establishments) and categories and can provide the report to Finance at some level for manual screening. From there...who knows and who knows IF it gets screened/caught. I know for sure certain establishment's vendor codes throw a HUGE visible red flag, categories not so much accuracy. Some savvy business aren't labelled by credit card companies by what they actually do!

Read the SECAF MOI to the promotion board on MyPers... Being an AFPAK hand doesn't mean automatic BPZ promotion, maybe, supposedly, just kinda it means take it into consideration.

Full tilt GTA comes to life!! But seriously, violent video games caused him to do it (/S)

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1595836/innovative-1st-rs-training-provides-rq-4-student-pilots-valuable-flying-experie/ Big Blue gives out innovation $, in turn RPA drivers buy in-cockpit flight time...who knew they'd want to do such a thing, and gasp that's its having benefits back to Big Blue. Why wasn't this done earlier? Like 10 years ago? Fund and approve more Aeroclubs! Especially near RPA drivers!

“We can’t afford to lose our treasure [due to aircraft mishaps], and our treasure is our Airmen, first, and our aircraft and weapons systems our nation relies upon.” - Gen David Goldfein, Chief of Staff, US Air Force A bit reminiscent of a famous Lord of the Rings quote's meaning....

Me either...but the promotion rates say it all, especially the APZ rate this O4 board

2nd claim...from a classic...and 5% because it's not sleep-'apnis' and it might be 'Space-Burn-pit' related which has unknown side effects and needs further review and a registry...

Expect stated USAF priorities to change in regards to Instructing in the coming months. We'll see how this new prioritization, apparently in second-order-effect-style in coordination with and in the vien of logic IRT growth-the-force, sticks and is adhered to by the porches...perhaps the recipe of personnel sausage-making will change!?

Legit... Break, break... I've seen that guy somewhere before...that one in the top photo.

How about the MyPers info on the AvB that talks about CSO's expired UPT commitment...and I'm pretty sure they're not talking about re-cat's...these are our Personnel'ists. Wonder if this typo will confuse a young FSS warrior into mismanaging someone?

1 word...absorption... What IPs are left to teach? We send people to Navy to "grow up" now - as a strategy - yikes!

Interesting speculation... But does the near-blanket continuation letter cover the gap?

The AvB AFI doesn't say anything about this issue that could affect 1 year takers this year. If this take-you-to-22 YAS service is a thing, talk about screwing over trust. Should've figured...

I had 47 hours one year when farmed-out to a "fly-once-a-week" support job. Typically local training sorties were 4 hours. You do the math...

Lt Gen Grosso briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee that it's still with SECAF last week, the "quality review board" that is...ha, appearance counts for too much. The lawyers are probably making sure the 'QRB' is legal.

https://www.af.mil/mobile/News/Article/1443863/air-force-vice-chief-of-staff-to-congress-help-us-win-any-fight-at-any-time/ Humans are more important than hardware. This SOF truth applies to the masses too. Just buying more planes and acquiring more flying hours to enable the AF's grow-out-of-this problem isn't going to work (as WE all know). How far, how big, will this retention problem get before they accept this SOF truth? What do y'all think? I wonder, what was the tipping point that significantly increased bonuses in the past? 38% take-rates? What will it be now? Will the 1-2 year bonus takers be the tipping point? Hundreds took short bonuses/commitments, will they be persuaded to stay by the AF's recent "fixes"?

We're so fucked. Notice all #s are 2016... /Break, break/ Lt Gen Nowland told Congressional sub-committee the newly passed budget had $$$ for AD AF aviators; But I don't see it. He also said AF will target bonus $$ to IP/EPs. Lastly, that AF is coming back to Congress to ask for help to implement a new plan. Wonder what that'll be?!

Montgomery, O-4: w/ dependent, $183 decrease w/o dep, $156 decrease Cannon AFB, O-4: w/ dep, $63 decrease w/o dep, $90 decrease

Check two other threads...we're already talking about this... Time to lock this down, then "File 13"

The USAF needs pilots so badly; I was seeing MQT, local indoc, and combat cert' trainees getting a slap on the wrist and multiple attempts. Exactly opposite of what you think.

They've proposed using eye scanning/monitoring, like retna trackers, with T-6 partial task trainers to hopefully accelerate an instrument crosscheck. Iterative virtual reality training will probably be extensive in that syllabus, when it gets developed. They will have a T-6 flying portion. **they will probably have near constant oversight from AETC HQ Proposed/goal for new road to wings is 6 months. It's aggressive.