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preds are mature but still a terrible design with terrible TOs that will serious flaws never be fixed due to funding limitations

Anyone know where to get a patch with Calvin (& Hobbes) wearing a flight suit and pissing on a UAV? I had one but lost it and can't find the site where I originally bought it from.

sweet I'll have something to put TA towards now that i'm giving up on my masters

I think you've been drinking too much Koolaid from commanders. I honestly believe I will be worse off b/c of my UAV experience compared to my peers who stayed in real airplanes. highpaying UAV jobs are out there if you want to deploy to shitholes

Ok but how does that help you to be a part of the "wave of the future" people keep talking about it in generalities.. no specifics. Is it going to help you make rank easier than a real pilot? I don't think so To me it's stupid to try to get into a career field that one day will completely eliminate pilots anyways.

I think you made the right choice.. just curious.. why do you think it's a good career field to get in while the technology is new? I keep hearing people say that but I don't really understand it.

but not probable

I'd go one further and give up my commission to be a warrant officer if that was possible. Hell I'd stay O-3 for 20 just flying if that was possible.

nope

I'd love to join a guard/reserve unit... figure out how to pay the bills when I get to that crossroad. There's always a job out there to the dedicated/resourceful even in a bad economy.

I agree. I think you will greatly hurt your chances of ever flying a real airplane in the AF if you get any 18U stink on you.

Pipelines only have so many slots to train people a year. Don't give up!

but will they give me a honorable discharge?

I haven't heard of any pilots being asked to leave yet. If that's not the case please let me know how I can separate and get out of my ADSC.

If there is a DG program there it would be a good bullet to get.. anything to help you get strat'd. Gayness = success in the airfarce unfortunately. Yeah shit like that will help you stay in the jet. Take it from a guy who ignored all that bullshit and won't likely get to fly an airplane in the airforce again because of it.

Global hawks dudes have to deploy too and are getting tagged with MC-12 deployments. A buddy of mine at beale isn't very happy. I'd ask for a T-6 or T-1 if I were you.

I'll stay in if they let me out of UAVs. UAV = me separating asap

5. Eligibility. For the inaugural board, all officers who currently have an 11/12U duty AFSC will apply for and meet the board if any of the following apply: (1) volunteer to recategorize to the RPA MWS, or (2) have a RPA FTU course graduation date before 1 Oct 08, or (3) have a date of rank to Major of 1 Sep 10 or earlier, or (4) are a Lieutenant Colonel. Officers who have a RPA Rated Management (RDTM) code, regardless of duty AFSC, will also apply for and be revalidated by the board. The board will only consider Regular Air Force Officers.

He's probably just lazy and doesn't want to ask the SE center to send the videos. If he actually watched it he would realize the lessons to be learned apply to ANY flyer.

did you call them and ask? I just took the MCI test.. very easy. I studied for it three nights and used the sheppardair study guide program. Now to make an appointment with the FSDO

No I got my UAV while I was in c-17 IP upgrade. And no im not a bottom feeder. I was first to upgrade to AC & IP out of my peer group. I just had a CC who didn't really "know" me b/c I was sent to the wing right before his change of command followed by FSO and then a ground deployment away from my squadron right after. I've just been a flying whore my first 3 years on station and never said no to the schedulers. Well guess who's the boss going to send to a uav? Not the execs, dudes who plan dining-outs/golf tournaments and booster club prez. He's going to send the guy who's not strat'd b/c he's been TDY the last 3 years. Funny thing is I volunteered for an ops assignment 6 months prior then later to go to altus. However at that time AFPC would not let me go OPS yet because I didn't have enough time on station and then later altus all of the sudden became a good deal and was hard to get... ridiculous Well I think I got my point across. I'm bitter. But life's not fair.. it is what it is. The air force doesn't owe me anything and I don't owe the airforce anything after my ADSC. until then embrace the suck!

Sure I feel pride about doing my job but I still hate it with a passion. It's not like if I died today that some grunts on the ground would be in jeopardy. Big Blue would just find someone else and train them to do the job. I'm bitter because the AF could fill these positions with qualified and willing people if they so desired but instead they waste all the time/effort/money they previously spent training me to be an IP.

Ok.. ,Staff Sgt. Cpl, Spc ranks.. but you get the point.

I new nothing about UAVs until after I got to my first operational assignment. They weren't being dropped at pilot training and dudes weren't getting nonvol'd left and right to them until recently. All of you who think I'm a whiner because I hate my job can EABODs. As I said before, you're not the one stuck wasting your "flying career" sitting in a GCS operating a POS. I have the worst "flying" job in the air force and you know it. I signed up under the impression that I'd be flying SOMETHING for 10 years, not wasting my skills and training doing a job the other services let their junior enlisted do with a fraction of the training. Do I still give 110% in the hopes the air force will let me leave the UAV community one day? yes.. but that doesn't mean I have to happy about it. And yes I regret it. There is nothing wrong with that. I just want dudes who are thinking about pilot training to know that flying NOTHING for a large portion of it is a very real possibility.

Easy for you to say. You're not stuck operating predators for a majority of your upt ADSC.