pawnman

Sending a bunch of people to fly fighters against their will?

Still no 12B bonus, though.

Maybe we shouldn't have cut so many mobility pilots back in 2014.

I haven't seen many selfies, so it's already a step up from the last one.

I was wondering this myself. If no one stays on base for a month, the Air Force pays for the utilities, salaries, upkeep, etc. If everyone stays on base for a month, the Air Force is paying for utilities, salaries, upkeep, etc. It seems like the only place where the Air Force comes out ahead on this one is when people stay on base when they are not on orders (leave, retired dude on vacation, etc).

I don't know about jets with two seats (like the F-15E), but the B-1 should be flying until 2040 according to the last bomber roadmap, and we'd be happy to have you.

The ADC will help you draft a rebuttal, but LORs are considered "administrative" and not "punitive"...so there's no due process and no fighting it.

I remember. My squadron stood down for 4 months.

Maybe. Or again, maybe he's proposing "non-monetary" solutions so that when he goes back to congress asking for a bump in the bonus and/or monthly flight pay, they can see he's tried other solutions.

And Goldfein wonders why we can't retain rated officers...

Depends on which one garners more campaign contributions.

Are they? I didn't get a DP because the people I was stratified against were the DO of the SFS squadron and a flight commander with 200 people reporting to him in CE. It would be in our favor if boards actually cared about combat time or flying hours, but what they seem to care about is exec time and SOS DG.

So, the latest NDAA said the Air Force would have to prove the non-monetary methods they tried to retain pilots before they congress would increase the bonus beyond $35K a year. Any chance CSAF is playing the long game and using the 1500 hour rule proposal as evidence he's tried? "Look, I attempted to lower the amount of hours civilian pilots need to fly for the airlines, but it didn't work, I'm going to need $50k/year to retain fighter pilots."

I'm amazed that in an age of prosecuting people like Snowden and Manning, no one asked why there was a cell phone camera on board an aircraft loaded with TS/SCI mission equipment.

Time to call a congressman, then. Why does the Air Force think they can violate federal law?

I wonder when this will start for AFGSC. In my opinion, this and the non-vol 365s to make PowerPoint slides are the two biggest drivers convincing people to leave.

He's playing the long game. This won't solve his immediate problem, but in 5-10 years it would widen the civilian applicant pool to the airlines. I get that this is an attempt to increase retention by restriction options outside, which may or may not even work...but at least he's acknowledged that we have a problem and he's proposing solutions to fix it.

We're having the opposite problem. Most of our B-course pilots are now FAIPs or prior MDS guys...which means a lot of them will be out of the LAR for WIC when the time comes. Our WIC is already struggling to get applicants to fill classes, it's only going to get worse when your line guys are pinning on major before they become instructors.

Relevant Terminal Lance.

I jettisoned any compulsion to be humble in my writing when I started writing the first drafts of my OPRs. You're just giving these people a draft...put in as much detail as you can (actual qualifications, actual numbers, etc), but your opening line should be "Bobsan walks on water" and your closing line should be "Bobsan is the best officer, pilot, and person I know". Let the person signing it make the changes.

I've written the first draft of every letter of recommendation I've ever used.

I sure would, but I've been to the Academy as a tourist. Civilians wandering the grounds there was much more common than it was at Maxwell. I don't throw a "sir" into every conversation with a civilian in my off-duty life. Like I said, it's why I'm glad I didn't go. If others really love the military structure and enjoy being shit on during freshmen year, then by all means, sign up for the Academy. I went to OTS, which was a miserable enough 12 weeks. I can't imagine trying to do the things I did at OTS while also maintaining a decent GPA. Maybe I'm just a bad officer though.

I guess I wasn't clear. The things he complains are now missing (such as "being recognized" and "not calling a former officer in civilian clothes sir") are the things that make me glad I didn't go to the Academy 20 years ago.

The things this guy bitches about are all reasons I did NOT want to go to the Academy.

I've got enough gate months that I would have to think REALLY hard about strapping into a BUFF. Especially since I attended electronic warfare school, so I'd end up in the EWO seat.