pawnman

Leave my MWS? I can't even leave my base. FTU is 50% manned. I'll probably be here until I retire.

Reading some of the interviews and synopsis, I don't think cutting the American flag construction and set-up is a lefty plot. It took a long time, and looked pretty silly on camera due to the low gravity. You'll still get the iconic shot of Neil saluting the flag. Just not the 45 minutes it took to set the thing up.

We scrapped PRFs and said it was 100% opportunity...then took almost twice as long as a normal board to promote 99% of the candidates.

Sounds like overall he's helping out the bros. So...

Who gets to decide if they're credible?

Unfortunately, no one at the staff has the balls to talk to the general and tell him the coordination is failing.

They've moved people back to our FTU after they refused to take the additional ADSC for a PCS. So, my guess is that if they need you somewhere, they'll take a year and a half of someone filling the position over zero time of someone filling the position.

Life pretty cozy back there in 1965? Because we're living in 2018.

I think you'll find that 1. the stuff is being proven in the civilian world and 2. it's way cheaper than the flight time in a T-6 or T-38, especially in the long-run.

It's not necessarily about excluding them on purpose. It's about presenting the Air Force and flight training as an option to communities that don't usually hear that kind of thing, and hoping a few of them get interested. It's easy for a white boy from the suburbs of an Air Force base to get into the idea of joining to be a pilot. It may be harder for a girl who, even in 2018, still hears "That's a man's job" or "model airplanes are boy's toys". Similarly, in communities that are historically less educated, we can reach into those communities and show them the types of opportunities that exist for those willing to get an education. We may even reach the point where, similar to what the Air Force does with lawyers and doctors, we start paying for high school candidates with a high aptitude for flight to get an undergraduate degree (aside from the highly competitive USAFA process). I'm with you. The idea that we should weed out white men because "we have to many" or that we should promote minorities "to increase representation" is just terrible reasoning all the way around. I'm saying that we can do things to increase the number of minorities entering the service, giving us a greater number to pull from to fill those leadership positions/cockpits/etc.

Nope, but I've been an instructor weapon systems officer for almost ten years. My answer to the students would be the same as my answer to you... Read some on your own, and if you still don't understand, then come ask. If you ask me something dumb, like "why can't we drop bombs upside down?", I'm going to tell them to go do some of their own research first. If this is the level of academic rigor that now gets people into UPT, I weep for the future of the Air Force.

My gut feeling is that all you'll do is increase your timeline, with the possibility of exceeding the 30-year mark before you go to UPT. If you want to be a pilot, apply to be a pilot.

Between this and your energy question, I think you need to spend some time on Wikipedia before you bring us your next great revelation.

I'll tell you the B-1s are working with the guys from UPT-Next on a VR set-up for the FTU. So...not exactly a separate solution, and not exactly without outside expertise. I get what you're saying...but the guys in the trenches of the FTU don't want to wait another decade for the Air Force to finally move on this program, so they're doing it themselves, with wing-level funding from things like the Spark Tank competitions, and dragging our training into the 21st century in SPITE of our cyber organization, instead of being able to LEVERAGE our cyber organization.

There's something to be said about reaching out to historically under-represented communities and trying to instill an interest in flying and aircraft early. Getting the local Girl Scout troop a tour of your sim or aircraft, sponsoring minority groups to come out to the airshow, etc. The point is to increase the diversity in the people who apply for the program, not to weed out straight white males to inflate the numbers.

I'm wondering if I should get to work on my PRF. At least there won't be a ton of new info to add, since there's no way I'll get another OPR between now and the March board date.

Twelve hours bottle to throttle. And it doesn't affect the grading of the IP when he ends up flying with the student he's railing.

So I guess they want the captains to approve multi million dollar contracts to get new parts installed...? Or to decide on what the T-X will be and when to start buying them?

You missed the point. It wasn't that DLF was a bustling town with plenty of options. It was that even then, without technological wizardry, Huggy didn't have to resort to banging students. No reason someone in the modern era should feel the need to put their own career at risk for a piece of ass.

I know I'm late to the party but the rental market in Abilene is almost non-existent, with a steady for of FTU students parading through. Quail Hollow captures a decent chunk as "unofficial" base housing, but there's money to be made renting a house at O-1/O-2 BAH rates.

New students are close in age to the ARMS troops. What would you do to a student fucking an ARMS troop? Seriously, this is basic officership. It's not difficult to refrain from screwing people you have authority over. Edit: a word

Given how fast senior captains and FGOs are bailing, I think we'll have some time before this becomes a problem. We're already shifting boards left due to the number of unfilled FGO slots. Step one would just be to move them back to the right, where they were historically for the past decade.

Unpopular opinion... But if you took the bonus and the accompanying ADSC, you knew what you were signing up for. I'd personally be all for forcing folks with an ADSC for the bonus to serve it the remainder, regardless of promotion results.

So there's hope for my 1BPZ with a promote?!

Hopefully you won't find that the seat doesn't fire when you pull the handles...metaphorically speaking, of course.