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It is a lose-lose, but could be a win-win for him and the Guard-Reserves. They get the experience and he gets the retirement eventually without the 365 threat.

Dude, stop giving people bad gouge. Just because you hate flying AF jets doesn't mean we all do. My current assignment feels like the best job in the world. I've got a great family and a nice house in the mountains and the flying is amazing. Would I rather be a 767 bus driver for 50% more pay? No, not at this point in my life. I love this job. I'm not in AMC anymore so maybe that's it. But seriously, in the grand scheme of things, the Air Force can be pretty awesome. The real world sucks.

I think the general consensus is that we need the F-35 no doubt, but that the $2B/year to keep flying A-10s is a great value considering our most likely COAs. And nobody believes that "saving money" by divesting airframes will actually reduce the overall budget.

A companion trainer would work wonders in the heavy world, allowing them to save billions while increasing their airmanship and hand-flying skills. Heavies cost between $15-50k per hour to fly not including fuel while a smaller trainer runs on peanuts. That said, there are many heavy pilots who would kill themselves in the T-38. I say that coming from the community; some are great and some are absolutely heinous. So it would have to be some other airplane (without an autopilot available, because some would lean on it and negate the whole purpose of a CTP).

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Are you a white guy? Then you're going to have to be an O-6 select or a regional manager for a multinational. Otherwise you just need to be a helicopter pilot or work for a non-profit that distributes its resources based on skin color.

If the Air Force actually chose 4600 survey participants completely randomly, that's a legit sample. The shitty part is that leadership needs a survey to make a decision. The surveymonkey poll may be bullshit but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to tell someone that TIB sucks. Worst case is some guy gets 10,000 responses for his Masters thesis survey.

So the Chinese can fly at night now? Or not?

That's kinda creepy, dude.

Ned say current location.

Sometimes planned obsolescence doesn't go as planned, which is where subterfuge and disinformation campaigns come in. I have no SA on the -141 drama, but it's easy to see how "we have found wing cracks on some C-141s" can turn into the one-liner "C-141s have wing cracks."

You could be a writer for RT.com.

Trinity Kid- I'm sure that many members of this board applaud your enthusiasm for becoming a military pilot. All of us, even the most salty, have shared your dream at one point or another. At some time in our lives we watched military movies or played video games that started the desire to do cool pilot shit. Most of the images we had in our minds were extremely unrealistic and we eventually found out how the sausage is actually made (STS). There are definitely shitty, boring, and hair-pulling times in the military, but during the best times it's still one of the most amazing jobs in the world. But here's the deal: do your research first before engaging a bunch of real-world qualified dudes with questions out of left field. Read everything you can about military aviation. UTFSF. You've been a member since 22 Aug, there's now way you've read the relevant topics on here yet. The internet is both a blessing and curse; while you've got all the world's information at you fingertips, you've also got the potential to post your silly questions for the world to see for posterity. I'm glad that Facebook and Baseops weren't around when I was in high school; I was a dipshit (it's an ongoing recovery process). But anyway, you seem like a nice kid, so here's the answer to all your questions: study hard, be a bro, and try to be an Air Force or Navy pilot. There will be stupid bullshit bureaucracy that will make you want to pick up a gun and go outside the wire, but don't do that. And don't join the Army. If you want to learn to shoot at people with a rifle, be a Marine pilot. If you want info on flying off of a boat, go to airwarriors.com and read everything you can there before asking anybody anything. Your questions have already been asked by someone somewhere. Also, go fly a plane if you haven't yet. You may think it sucks.

The semi-smart thing to do would be to give them an RT to McConnell with a KC-46 follow-on so they could just stay there.

Not at all, just naive.

But it says you can wear white socks with the FDU, but then it says white socks only with athletic shoes. So that means you can wear athletic shoes with a bag.

Come on guys, he just wants to be as cool as us. Don't get discouraged, Trinity Kid, if a normal ordinary guy like me can do learn to do awesome stuff in and out of the jet, so can you. Why here's some video of a sweet move I pulled off just last week: https://orig13.deviantart.net/641d/f/2012/020/3/0/battlefield_3_gif_1_by_mechadeku-d4mzsl9.gif

I think in 100 years people will look back in amazement at how concerned we are with tracking skin tone. Every application wants to know my race and heritage. WTF?

As soon as the Global Hawk reaches parity, which by nearly every measure is impossible, soooo...

That would seem to suck. Being able to control your own hiring process is what makes communities like the B-2 and U-2 (and Guard and Reserves) great. What's the reasoning? More command opportunities for guys from other airframes? A jealous AFPC General that was turned down as a Capt?

Can somebody explain why Russia gives a shit about Assad?

The ability to make decisions under pressure is vitally important for a leader. Aviation highly refines that skill. "Management" doesn't, necessarily. Certain career fields must have home grown leaders. Firemen, cops, soldiers, pilots, doctors, etc look around a room and see themselves as the top dogs. They will never really respect a leader from another career field, or even one from their own group that is subpar. This is just the way things work.

I agree that the shooter was probably motivated by the idea that millions would watch his video, especially considering he was a narcissistic TV personality. But I'm almost certain that he wouldn't have wanted the world to repeat "what a giant fucking cunt" when they see his face, which is what I do.

Agreed, there are some great ideas in there, but I can see the bureaucracy creating a mountain of regs to implement them. "Up or out" will be especially hard to get rid of. Also, we'd like more money, sure, but a "performance bonuse" sounds like a payday for the pepper grinders.

There should be a binding congressional resolution to prevent any service from naming a plane "Something II".