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Solid IPA, picked up a case at Costco. I like it, can't say much more.

That's 30 min I'm never getting back. Sounds like a man with a drinking problem. Not to get too much into national stereotypes, but if Russians think your behavior while drinking is over the top....might be time to look in the mirror a bit.

No narrative required, but some senior raters might not be wiling to do it.

Oh, you were serious. Wow

It's early and grumpy kids so my sarcasm detector may be inop--you're kidding right? It takes a little more than that to crash a plane Pcola--I've quite happily been out of AMC world for a while. But when I was doing the field sobriety test/ORM sheet they already came down filled out from TACC. It made perfect sense to launch a crew at 0100 local from home station on a max duty day because hey, we had crew rest. So while in general I agree it's a tool crews can and should use...if we're going to pretend to have an ORM process they shouldn't build idiotic missions on a routine basis in the first place. It sends a message My very first mission as an AC was a 0100 launch to a night AR, max duty day with a basic crew--copilot on 2nd mission and first time flying basic. Even with the relatively primitive ORM sheet we had back then my ORM came out fairly ludicrous--required Sq/Comm briefing/approval/risk mitigation. Which was conveniently already signed off with the thorough mitigation plan of "be safe." Since then all I've seen in ORM is increasingly complex sheets requiring inputs by more and more people, I've yet to see any reduction in pointless risk. Only good thing I've seen is ambien. That really made a difference for me personally. ORM is a great concept, one I've yet to see it enacted intelligently or usefully in AMC or AETC (heard rumors that AFSOC does it well--any truth?). For many of those missions the crew shouldn't have to say yes or no, planners/leadership should look at the mission and make the judgement that it's stupid long before it gets to a crew.

I'm not talking about what cadets upon graduation, nor am I understanding how that has anything to do with the academic excellence. Yes, graduates do go on to military careers...what does that have to do with anything? Whether or not they directly use the education says nothing about the quality of the education. My post pointed out that USAFA is, in fact, an excellent academic institution. As measured by accreditation boards and organizations that ranks schools. How do you judge academics? Groundbreaking research? Dunno, this is a teaching school, and it's undergraduate only, but among other things it is the only undergraduate school to put satellites into orbit. We do capstone projects for SOCOM and DARPA, and they are usually happy with the results. No idea about grad school acceptance rates, but my department did send ~20% of our last graduating class to grad school. The number of Rhodes scholars has been mentioned (and mocked). I don't really know how that matters either. Civilian careers? Absolutely no idea, would be interesting to find that out. We do send "interns" all over the world during the summer. Pretty sure I've seen Google on the list, I'm unconvinced that Microsoft does anything cutting edge so again, not sure how that would matter. Hate the place, hate grads, think the place ought to be closed. That's all fine, but by any objective measure, academically it is an excellent school.

If you've never heard of Holy Cross or Oberlin outside of basketball you know f all about higher education in America. I and every cadet and graduate fervently wish it were like UCSB--pretty decent engineering programs by the way. Your definition of what makes a good school is interesting, Rose-Hulman is roundly considered one of the best engineering schools in the country, but fails to meet your standards because their grad school is miniscule--focus is on undergrad education, not research. You do realize schools without large research programs tend to focus on teaching, right? Having a grad school has nothing to do with quality of undergraduate education, a grad school (good or bad) usually means undergrad courses are taught by grad students rather than, I don't know, teachers. No idea if the Academy produces better officers, but I've never seen any evidence of it. As many others have already stated, I've seen awesome and horrible officers from all commissioning sources. But academically it is outstanding. Your assessment flies in the face of accreditation boards and school rankings, including those more rigorous that US News. Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about...but don't let that stop you.

Confused who is doing the reaping and who is doing the sowing in your statement. And wtf farming has to do with this. Don't want to ruin anyone's chance to bag on the academy, but was your takeaway from reading the article really that the academy has a problem? Or is there a problem with OSI? Cause if it's the latter, it's still going to exist even if you nuke the Academy tomorrow.

Warrior, I think we all know budgeting is a strange animal, but sports receive very little govt funding. Football is one of the few sports that actually pays for itself. It also pays the bills for nearly every other team here. Pushing football back to D-III won't free up any money, it'll just disappear. As will most of the other sports teams here. I'm sure there's another side to the story specific to this kid. But I can't imagine it'll make OSI look any better.

Fair enough. My point about having no idea--there are an enormous number of enormous soldiers. You don't have to spend much time on any post anywhere in the world to figure that out.

You're right, this wouldn't be a discussion in the Army--they don't care about waist measurement. Beyond that, I was in the Army. You have no idea what you're talking about. In general I agree we should present a fit image, we are after all in a quasi-military organization. That said, in the rank ordering of things that matter, a 32 in waist doesn't make the list. Pure style over substance.

I lost not a single sortie because mx or anyone else was fat. I lost plenty because people didn't know how to do their job. I also saw a few chunky E7s who knew wtf they were doing and saved the day. Ergo, to me, the PT program/test is a solution in search of a problem. Besides which, it came about long before the current CSAF assumed the job Knew very little about him, but my impression was that he was an utterly humorless micro manager. Was I off the mark?

Didn't love it, but definitely liked it. Obviously had to cut the book down substantially to make a viewable movie, still seemed too short for the material it covered. Little more depth would have made a much better film IMO.

Honest question Karl, where are they? I looked up the stats a couple weeks ago and the bonus take rate was....I think 65%. Which is down a bit, but not much. I really expected to see a lot of folks on the way out, but seems like it isn't happening.

Quit being so logical and shit

Let's not get too over the top. It should be easier to get the animations, I'm not entirely sure why they are so hard to get, but a I do know a large part of it is fear that some idiot will post them on youtube (didn't that happen with Dover C5?). While the videos are good, they aren't standalone products. The accompanying powerpoints usually have about as many words as the full report. If you want "a very condensed version of the SIB," don't they still post Blue 4 news? If you can't read a full report, don't be pissed off at AF/SE, be pissed off at your high school. I agree animations should be more accessible, but disagree entirely that you can't get a full understanding from the AFSAS report. I cannot fathom a safety office that wouldn't let you read them, fortunately I haven't experienced such idiocy.

I can't find the current stats, which I felt like I looked at a few months ago. Can someone post a link? Help a brother out.

Not arguing, but what are they? Seriously, never heard of this

I can see how they hold his O6. I can get how the can force him to retire. But how do they retire him at O4? I mean, there must be some legal/adminstrative process, what is it? I've never heard of someone losing rank outside court martial, or as part of a deal to avoid one. Ralston was separated, living apart from his wife when his occurred. What hosed him was that it came to light soon after Kelly Flinn.

There are actually ways of doing it....I just can't remember off the top of my head. There is cross-service sharing of safety information, but handoff occurs at pretty high levels. On our end I think we'd have to go to at least the MAJCOM level to get something from a different service. Not sure how you'd go about it on your end. I'm too lazy to look it up, but if you're motivated I'd just call the AF Safety Center at Kirtland AFB and ask around. Someone there will know how the process works.

Whatever you say about the UCP, it's a billion times better than the ABU.

I've had varying opinions of patches. But I had the general impression that patch=competence. Hopelessly naive?

"As he was being escorted from the grounds by security staff, he fell to the ground, causing abrasions to his face" Oops

Saudi paid better than Del Rio. Also, better living conditions

I have a few buds that did the Saudi UPT gig. In general they liked it. I think it could be fun, the pay is nice. But it isn't something I'd do long term, and I don't think job hunting from Saudi would be fun or easy.