pawnman

If it's better than The Last Jedi, I'll be satisfied.

About to ask the same. It's the the superintendent of an FTU telling a student to take out the trash? Was it a demand or a request? Did someone else tell the MSgt "hey, get Capt Snuffy to take the trash out, it's his turn"?

This guy's take is great. We need more folks to take stands like this.

Banks don't have liquidity. You might go to get your money, and it isn't there. Like in 1929.

Fed is dumping money into banks to keep them solvent. Banks regularly borrow from each other overnight to reconcile accounts, but for some reason they are becoming more reluctant to do those loans, so the Fed had to.

O-4 with dependents at Dyess...+ $3. Oh... But Bloomington IN is up almost $300. Just in time for my PCS.

Only works if you are willing to promote the nonstop volunteers to kill ISIS. The idea that someone will make a great senior leader because they were DG at USAFA or SOS is insane. It separates out potential leaders way too early. Make it 5 OPRs. Make it 6. But I don't think the board really needs your commissioning training report and your first OPR as a 2 LT to make a promotion decision to Lt Col. And, one more time, promotion boards aren't matching people with experience to jobs. There are other mechanisms for that, with the from records available. I'm curious... Would you unmask Masters degrees if you could? That's part of someone's qualification and experience, right?

How many Lts have those experiences, do you think? And do you believe the board is promoting people based on experiences, or push lines? I suspect it's the latter. Especially since the people who get those joint or international jobs are usually the #1/x anyway.

My functional called me when the PSDM dropped. He thinks it'll be a unique opportunity for APZ guys to get promoted. I'm not giving up, but I'm also not as optimistic as he is.

Affirm. 2% per year of service instead of 2.5, plus a match to TSP. I don't know where this idea of "no pension" started, but it sure is pervasive.

I didn't say anything about blacking out strats. I said limit the number of OPRs. Skills and experiences should matter for the job at hand, but if you're talking specific skills, those are usually already reflected as an SEI or language on the SURF...which no one is arguing to black out. What we ARE arguing to remove is some dudes glowing report from IQT 12 years ago. How is that possibly relevant to the kind of leader he would be as a Lt Col? I suspect that's part of the move. Now people who are passed over twice can't get out of a UPT or bonus commitment. They have to stay to 18+ years of service, and then they'll likely not be booted because of sanctuary. That's one way to improve retention, I guess.

I'd argue there's a pretty wide gulf between what the promotion boards are doing and what hiring authorities are doing. My command chain has access to my entire record, including the fact I have a master's...but the board doesn't. The point is to give the promotion boards the information they need to PROMOTE people. Not to vector them to the next job. Not to put people on the command list. Not to fill vacancies in a staff. There are other process for those things, and the people that run those processes have access to the entire record. Promoting someone to Lt Col shouldn't hinge on the fact that they finished #20/21 in their UPT class as a 2 Lt or were the DG of SOS 8 years ago. I think last 3-5 OPRs should be plenty for that. The enlisted side only uses last 3 EPRs for all SNCO ranks.

I think the collective "meh" is because everyone in the government and military already knew this (maybe not the details, but they knew the mission was a failure and that we were not making progress, that we were pouring money and blood into the country with little to show for it and little accountability). And the civilians are probably surprised to hear we are still in Afghanistan.

They already got rid of the "pole year" idea that someone MUST be a one star by 24 years of service. Sounds like they finally recognized the vast majority of us will not be CSAF

I saw they put something like 200 rounds into the truck... where the driver was still being held hostage. Also, check out the sight lines these guys had... Taking cover behind occupied civilian vehicles, firing through the truck into civilians, hell, some of them are pointing their weapons at other cops with zero awareness about what is behind their targets. This kind of shit is why people don't trust the police.

Took me about two years to get through Navy training when JSUNT was at PCola and AF UNT was at Randolph. The Navy doesn't care about timelines, at all. Cancel for weather? Eh, we'll work you back into the schedule when we can. Go DNIF? Well, we'll pick up your next event when you're better. There was never any pressure to "get back on timeline". No double turning. No weekend flying. You graduate when you graduate, and it doesn't matter how long it takes.

True, but at least in my little corner of the Air Force, it's been a game-changer. Civilian continuity in stan eval, training, UDM, and scheduling have improved the QOL in our combat squadron by leaps and bounds.

I think it will have an impact on retention, but it isn't overnight. You're not going to take a guy with airline apps already in and TAPS already scheduled and convince him to stay with a civilian hire. But if we can make life better for the folks at 6-9 years in, we can influence their decision in year 10+.

How many Navy four stars are aviators?

Well, if this thread has done anything, its making me feel better about staying active duty instead of moving to the guard or reserve.

Let's just say I'm still wearing my Iron Major patch.

Just saw that this board was being pushed to May in order to get rid of BPZ/APZ

We see the same thing when they come here for Ops Air Force or whatever they're calling it now. Like maybe 1 or 2 of the 40+ cadets wants to fly airplanes. The rest all just want school paid for and bounce. They have their eyes set on jobs like cyber, contacting, acquisitions, and finance. Oh, and usually 1-2 that want to be JTAC/SERE/CRO/crazy obscure special ops AFSC

Maybe we can fit Air in that title one more time. - The Department of Redundancy Department

Pretty sure 2020 Det/CCs have already been selected.