pawnman

Yep. Rule of 72.

It's all about having the right waiver authority.

We are as happy that you're out of the service as you are.

Wasn't part of the deal with the B-21 using existing technology to keep the budget manageable and shorten the development timeline?

About that...

Looks like a standard air show profile to me.

Was that under the "100% to major" promotion boards? And do you think not having SOS will hurt you going into the O-5 boards?

https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/philadelphia-drug-bust-house-seizure/index.html https://www.michaelkernlaw.com/blog/2015/may/can-i-be-arrested-if-someone-uses-drugs-in-my-ho/

1. It's exactly how possession charges work. Never done a dorm sweep before? What do you think happens to the young airmen when drugs are found in their room? "Oh, it wasn't mine, shirt, my crazy girlfriend must have left them here." 2. I've made decisions for my family over my career. None of them involved bringing narcotics to the house. Or really, breaking any federal laws. 3. Yes, dude. I've been flying the B-1 for 13 years. Four deployments. I've dropped weapons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Like...hundreds of weapons. Couldn't tell you how many people, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's over a thousand. None of that made me curl up with a crazy stripper high on drugs who brought that shit into the house. OSI didn't entrap him into letting drugs come into the house. I might buy that argument if the stripper was an OSI agent...but she wasn't. This dude made a whole series of really bad decisions before OSI got the first phone call.

I don't know if you're aware of this...but having illegal drugs in your house means legally, you're in possession of illegal drugs. Even if you aren't the one who bought them.

Look, I'm sympathetic to the guy's plight. But there were drugs, in a house he owned, and even if he wasn't dealing, he let the person who owned the drugs stay in the house, and bring the drugs in. It sucks that he decided suicide was the way out. It sucks that his girl was a crazy psycho. But this whole case shows a real lack of decision making ability on his part. I wasn't part of the jury, none of us were, so none of us has all the info. However, if I were sitting in the jury for a court-martial where they found drugs in the home of an active duty member, especially one making life-and-death decisions like weapons employment...I'd vote for conviction in a heartbeat. I really don't see how this would have gone any other way once they found drugs in a house that he owned and was living in. Anything after that would just sound like a guilty person concocting a story to avoid punishment.

Doesn't matter in the civilian world. Don't know why it would to the Air Force. Police will take Grandma's house in a heartbeat if her teenage grandson is dealing drugs out of her house. Where is the line? Do we just believe every young airman who claims the drugs belong to a friend?

They found drugs in his house. Seems pretty open and shut to me.

Makes me like her a bit more.

Or maybe just don't touch the asses of your subordinates' spouses. With your dick. At a work event. I mean, I understand it's tough. But such are the burdens of leadership.

I didn't see any part of his post that said you should do ACSC in correspondence to make yourself more competitive for in residence. I did see in his post that you should do ACSC if you want to get promoted. I did mine as early as I did not so that I would get picked up for school, but because I knew after not getting picked up off my major's board, the odds of getting picked up on subsequent boards was slim to none. In my community especially, it seems the less time you spend flying the B-1 and the more time you can spend doing literally anything else, the better your chances for promotion are.

Sorry, not my intent. But hopefully that information will help the young to mid-level captains who still have time to make a course correction.

Banking may be a strong word. I just wish I hadn't been as blindsided by it. I had a whole series of commanders telling me how great I was, that I was integral to the mission, that I had improved the unit, that I was doing great work...then I got passed over. So either the boards were fucked up, or my commanders lacked the balls to actually tell me where I stood early enough to make a difference. I did do the feedback with AFPC. Basically worthless, because they told me all the things I already knew: 1. Didn't get a DP, so I was already at a disadvantage compared to the majority meeting the board. 2. Not enough (read - zero) career broadening. Never got out of a bomb wing, so again at a disadvantage compared to people who went to a staff/ALO/non-flying job. Not that I didn't try...I applied for three of those AFPC mail robot things, including the one to be a finance officer, but I couldn't get released by my functional to do any of them. 3. Limited supervision time. As a rated officer in a flying squadron, I had at most 6 people I rated on at any given point. MX, LRS, SFS, etc officers are supervising 200+ airmen at the same time in their career. 4. Everything was flying. The board doesn't want 4 deployments and 2000 combat hours. They want one deployment, enough sorties to get one Air Medal, then they want you to move on to the next job. 5. Not enough Tier 1 strats. A lot of #x/xx shop chief, #y/yy flight commanders, but not enough early #x/xx captains.

I hope you're right. I thought the same thing for IPZ... No way I was in the bottom 25% of the Air Force, right? Turns out I was, in fact, in the bottom 25%, with no UIF, no failed PT tests, ACSC done in correspondence before my more high-power peers even left for school in residence. But I was never able to achieve escape velocity from my community prior to the board, and when I went to the FTU there was no plan for deliberate development. So I went from shop chief and Flt/CC in my ops until to Flt/CC and shop chief in the FTU.

I get we'd need additional authorization to strike Iranian targets. I just don't think Trump would need any further authorization to preposition more forces in the area.

Guess it depends on the aircraft. I have 3000+ in the B-1, and I'm one of the high-time guys left on active duty. I did find it disappointing when a previous OG/CC had "over 100" combat hours. I had that as a brand new captain about a month into my first deployment. It was an astonishingly low amount of combat hours for the community.

Why couldn't they deploy to Iraq for six months without a new AUMF? As long as they don't start firing across the border, I don't see why the current AUMF wouldn't cover it.

While I agree with the general sentiment...they did attack our embassy. I appreciate an armed response compared to what happened in Benghazi.

We must be fixing the problems with the Air Force given the number of people asking how to get back on active duty lately.

I've had students like you at the FTU. Fresh-faced FAIPs who think they can run roughshod over the enlisted ARMS troops and Intel troops. I don't like to yell at people, but I did take a certain perverse pleasure in putting those assholes in their place. If I'm his leadership, I'm likely going to give you a little mentoring session about the right and wrong way to treat people. Not open an investigation into my SNCO.