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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?

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And penis size. Don’t forget to compare that.

Have any modern military jets ever set lap times?

I think this is rhetorical...

I think she doesn’t like FAIPs.

The Russians will have more to worry about than the Israelis.

Other than spreading the wealth among contractors, is there any reason they just didn’t buy some Lakotas?

Let us all know how you do in UPT! I assume since you’re the only Private Proctologist in the world you’ll be pretty easy to PID. Downgrade for planning right off the bat.

Make sure you invite your best Nav buddy to your UPT graduation so he can pin your wings on. Immediately afterwards kick him solidly in the balls and ask him to get you a soda.

Wait, you’re serious? How many T-6 hours? Skipping T-38s and IFF? This can’t be real.

Rife, I think you mean.

There was a heinously bad chick in my T-6 flight. Somehow got through contact with luck, sort of made it through instruments, then washed out of low level phase because she still couldn’t fly an ELP on recovery. So I’d argue that those failed ELPs saved a plane at some point in the future because she never flew it. ELPs are a screener. Is it a required skill? Probably will never have to dip into that bucket of knowledge for real in your career. Do I want a guy in my squadron that can’t figure them out when 90% of everyone else does? Hell no.

Because the hyper-emo left isn’t complaining about weed.

...so “roll inverted and pull” isn’t a valid COA during an EP? I need to get back in the books.

DTS is getting better, some of the screens like the per diem one have been reworked. But the requirement to login with a CAC on a windows pc must go. It’s 2018 and I can move $thousands of my own money around with my fingerprint. Move DTS onto an iPad, use current location to check in and out of per diem locations, take photos of receipts, book flights/cars/hotels using personal cards and points programs.

You cut out the queep at home. All of it. No more burger burns. No more fundraising of any sort. No more booster club. No one in the squadron hears about an award or medal unless they’ve won it, as determined solely by the CC. No one is ever informed about a volunteer or “professional development” opportunity. Hire civilians; one per shop can basically handle all of the admin in Training, Mobility, Stan/Eval, and Scheduling. Certify the largest office space in the building as a vault, make Comm give you some SIPR laptops. If there’s only one entrance and no windows, go for open storage. Ask the Wing to force the Comm/Sq to do the work for you. Tell the NAF or MAJCOM when they don’t. The Sq/CC takes stands like that because he’d rather tell the boss “no” than look like a pussy in front of his guys on the line. The guys on the line create that culture. The current push-pull for your time is “Flying vs Queep vs Deploy vs Personal.” It could be “Proficiency Flying vs Improving Mission vs Deploy vs Personal,” and that’s solely up to your community.

My green boots are almost brown now anyway.

There are tanker squadrons out there that don’t have a classified space in the building.