pawnman

Whelp, just got my PRF back. Top 15% of all FGOs on the base... Got a P. Thanks for playing, I guess. We'll see if I make it into the elite 36% promoted with a P (that's what it was last year).

On the bright side, you no longer have any reason to GAS about anything you don't care about. No more worries about 1206s or OPR bullets. No more volunteering or self-improvement. No more reason to take on big, unwieldy projects. Just work hours like a Finance Officer and do the parts of your job you like.

Here I thought you guys were talking about using the method of completion as a discriminator, not doing it by correspondence first to get picked up in residence.

Bingo. Fire just one or two WG/CCs for this and it will stop.

8.25% here in Taylor county, near Dyess.

I don't agree with the line of thinking, but a lone FGO isn't going to change it. I'll take any advantage I can get when doing AFI battle with the support agencies.

Do whatever you want. My own experience is that enlisted in the MSG view flyers as "not a real officer". If you are wearing ABUs with oak leaves, they assume you're a squadron commander.

Seems like this gets brought up every shut down. Bottom line - appealing as the idea is, it's unconstitutional. Plus, it lets reps with deep pockets like Pelosi wait out reps with less money, like Dan Crenshaw.

Yep. If TMO is the bottle neck, don't berate the airmen behind the counter. Just say "thank you for your time. I'd like to speak to the first officer in your chain of command". Works even better if you show up in ABUs/OCPs instead of a flight suit.

Of course she's Republican. Republicans have long been the "Puritan" party. While I support their stated (and seldom executed) goals of strong military, removing shackles on business, and smaller government... It's a constant source of frustration that the GOP feels the need to regulate the moral behavior of the population.

MLR is this week.

That happens after you become a pilot.

This sounds a lot like the scheme when I went through JSUNT with the Navy.

I personally don't care if it ever gets funded, but bonds would at least levy the cost on the people who desperately want to build it.

They did raise $14 million through a crowd funding initiative. And bonds at least have a return.

Don't feel bad... The CAF also turns our patches into execs.

Well, Tony sold the company and doesn't write for the blog anymore. Agree or disagree with his points, he was an excellent writer and always had a clear and direct point of view.

I'm sure that will stop the exodus of aviators.

Clearly "the service" has sacrificial components, but as I always tell my young students - "It's service before self, not service instead of self". At some point, the sacrifices become more than people can reasonably be expected to bear, and they bail out. Unfortunately, the Air Force has ratcheted up the sacrifice train with no corresponding increase in the other side of the equation. Until they limit the amount of sacrifices made (and they are making progress with things like limiting the number of 365s), or start giving people more pay/benefits/tangible recognition, the skilled people will continue to leave - not just pilots, but maintainers, cyber, acquisitions, engineers, doctors, lawyers...

Beats my current counter-air tactic of bravely running away as fast as I can.

As a B-1 guy, I can't wait for the F-22 engines and AMRAAMs.

People are eager to get to the B-1 from the B-52, so we're getting pretty good folks. Not many B-1 folks want to fly the B-52, so they're probably getting fewer quality candidates.

And to think AFGSC thought cross-flowing people was a great idea. Even if they have to practically non-vol B-1 guys to fly the BUFF.

There's that spirit of compromise Clark was talking about!

I think the medical issues will cause your separation to take longer. It would require you to go through a med board, complete treatments, not show improvement, continue to be not-deployable for at least a year, plus the time it takes for all that to get processed through the highly inefficient medical group chain...