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“According to the CDI, the compact disc was discovered when a vehicle driven by an "other country national" was inspected as it entered the base. The disc was later turned in to officials. The suggestive material prompted an investigation.” Here’s a CF. Don’t be sloppy.

Holy shit it’s Join Spouse, not Joint Spouse. Mind blow. https://www.afpc.af.mil/Assignment/Join-Spouse-Program/

This will test the two of you. Some career combos seem to be easier for mil-mil. Pilot+MX, Pilot+Intel, hell, Pilot+anything other than another Pilot. Here’s the rub: every pilot wants to fly particular kinds of jets out of UPT, especially if they’re good enough to have the opportunity to choose. You say you’d do anything for you spouse? That it’d kill you to be apart? And when you’re at the top of your class and she’ll be lucky to escape with wings (or vice versa) and your Flt/CC offers you the choice between an X-Wing and Space Shuttle, what then? Will you choose love over your dream job? If it works out that you’re both in a jet and location you enjoy, great. Otherwise, I think the road will be a little painful.

The airlines have greatly benefited from being able to hire experienced pilots from the Air Force. They get a $10m guy with no cost to them. It isn’t good news for the airlines when the Air Force gets on the back side of that production curve. The hiring wave has already overtaken the military’s ability to feed it, so the airlines will either have to train their own guys or hire less experienced pilots. So it’s a problem for “management” across the board, but the pilots are in great shape.

Plus the time it takes the gear doors to close, which probably feels like an eternity while the jet is accelerating in AB.

So how fast is gear over speed in a Raptor?

The story may be real, but that picture is a shitty photoshop.

Glad I’m not a jailer. The list of “glad I’m not a” jobs is getting pretty long these days.

Good info. Were you there? The rumor mill that Air Force pilots perpetuate on this kind of stuff puts the spouses’ club to shame.

2x namings for my class, one in each phase. No outsiders/phones allowed in and doors were locked. Multiple female students/IPs there whose opening move was to go extreme early, which set the boundaries for the night. Was fun/funny as hell for all and a good bit of stress relief that had us at points nearly passing out with drunken laughter at the expense of both us and our IPs. There were actual fighter pilots involved and this was nearly 10 years ago, so maybe that’s the difference. Fuck I’m old.

Is he open to all demographics?

That’s the piss tube.

Looks like a worn out pair of mechanic overalls.

You guys are actually picking potential UPT bases based on suitability for flying ops and livability, lol. First figure out which Senator is due for a win, then sort by which base is losing a current mission.

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So here's the funny part. While we all say we need more money to stay in and put up with the Air Force's queep, we'd also jump at the chance to volunteer for an ALR Extreme mission where we'd see a high likelihood of being killed. Most of us have that strange self-actualization trait that makes flying into downtown Hanoi seem more desirable than living in a faceless bureaucracy.

I heard the number is now up to 46 damaged Raptors.

So they’ve got a bachelors? So a year ago when they expressed their desire to be pilots, their Chief leadership sent them to this program instead of OTS and UPT where they’d be nearly done by now?

Don’t forget to use “Machine Learning!” and “Artificial Intelligence!” to solve your problems. Who should I send the bill to?

Spend 9 figures on developing a T-6 that has capes that many CAF aircraft still lack? Except that it doesn’t actually have a real sensor or drop a real bomb. Sounds about right. While the SPs get worse at basic flying skills because they’re wrapped up in what FIPS 140-1 means.

I’ll say this, in a room full of people, you used to be able to tell the difference between PJs, Army guys, intel guys, etc. Now you have to get closer to look at their patches and talk to them, ugh

Oh shit. Not hearing much about those results. It’s almost as if the pilot selection process works well enough and isn’t the root cause of the Air Force’s pilot retention problem...

Truth.

Do they all have to be weird coyote colors? Full color patches on Fridays at least?