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Thread saved by rain+boobs once again.

Those stupid assholes. Here's hoping for a dishonorable discharge followed by a life of minimum wage jobs, if any!

Basically, from what I understand, the CSS went away to save money. Unfortunately the bureaucracy increased, so slack was taken up by pilots who have no training in such matters. Of course we've figured it out anyway because we're good at stuff. So it looks like a great idea. But only a silly person would claim that it doesn't hurt flight training and ops.

Now I will say that there are a lot more guys in a heavy squadron. Upwards of 120. So there are a lot more OPRs/EPRs to manage and bullshit to slow things down. But the amount of Quarterly awards is the worst. We no kidding have 14 awards packages to submit every quarter. Everything from "Airman" and "Airman Performer" to "Jr CGO" and "Civilian Cat II" etc. And yes, in the 4Q we submit all of the same categories for the annual awards too except they literally have 3 times as many bullets. If anybody hasn't figured it out yet, I'm a Sq exec. And though I wish I and the others like me had more time to concentrate on flying, I actually like my job because it gives me a chance to streamline the bullshit process a little better so we all go back to flying better. My Squadron leadership has the same goals. But bureaucracy is a tough bitch to undo.

I'm posting this just so the ACC types can see the level of bullshit that we've reached at our large, West coast AMC base. The Group has 2 full-time execs plus a bunch more dudes on a rotating schedule. The rotating guys spend their entire time only editing OPRs. All pilots. Our Sq has six Execs - mostly to ensure there are always two in the office at any given time. Again, all pilots. We're deployed and TDY a lot. We also have a civilian secretary and usually some additional Major has a Director of Staff title. Plus three pilot flt CCs and three pilot assistants. Multiply this times four flying squadrons plus an OSS. It's not really kosher to "negative reply" a tasker, unless it's an award for a Native American or something, of which we have none. I guess if we did he could clean up! Or she, let's be realistic. My Squadron leadership hates this stuff as much as I do, and I think the OG does to some extent also. Telling your boss "no" is easier said than done. That's why change needs to come from the top-down.

Deputy Execs for everyone!

I can't tell if you're serious or not. If so, please explain.

The more people you have working for you the more shit you can get done for your boss. An O-6 can pull more people than an O-5 and on up the line. Flyers are generally better at stuff (to include satisfying bullshit taskers) so they are most in-demand. As long as the bullshit keeps increasing like it has been, the Exec roster at all levels will get bigger.

Yeah, just piling on.

Audi (Auto Union) already did the Nazi ad campaign thing about 75 years ago. Ferdinand Porsche was on board the Nazi train, too. Here he is giving Hitler a Volkswagen for his birthday. Being a fan of any German car company pretty much requires you to ignore significant portions of their past!

Well I'm headed right over to the Tebow thread then.

You guys obviously don't realize how well the 89th prepares you for an air war!

The Allied Air Component Commander is Lt Gen Jodice who flew F-111s and F-15Es. Who was the MAF guy?

I still don't understand why we can't just assign gas to the receiver's EOG or EFS and be done with it. Every fighter in the desert is based at 1 of 2 places. The Navy planes all fly off the same damn boat. Looking up a tail number will just bring up the fighter's stateside squadron; they don't pay for the gas anyway, right? -135 guys can go ahead and use the totalizer; in the long run the ±500 lbs will average out just fine. KC-10 guys know the offload to ±100 lbs.

Did she also happen to be a Gp/Wg exec? Just curious... Otherwise, we fly nearly every local as a formation and try to make it a large-cell, MX permitting. We feel like we're pretty proficient, and if somebody is unable on an actual mission, that's a fail.

Most handy with foreign guys. Assuming that we bill them - how does that even work? Do they get cheaper Treasury Bills in return? I vote no, it would be an uncontrolled emitter broadcasting tail numbers. KC-10 booms generally relay the offload in the desert. The checklist says the AC is supposed to, but that just adds another guy comm-jamming, so most don't really do it that way. It's just quicker for the boom to transmit the offload when receiver is cleared off.

Alright, enough of the back-and-forth; here are my questions: Can Daddy Mac tell us why we have to do things this way? What can we do to streamline this shit in the near-term? How do these fuel bills get paid? Why do we have to get a tail number for each receiver instead of just their EOG/EFS? Right now it looks like we bill gas to the fighter's home unit instead of the deployed one - that doesn't make any sense at all. Do units turn bills away because the tail number and ARCT doesn't match their records?

Holy shit, here we go again about tail numbers. Like joe1234 said, I've never seen this much antagonizing in Afghanistan. Almost everyone passes the number with no problems, the Navy guys pass it when they check in 50nm out. If a Hog doesn't pass it because he's only on the boom for 2m and he's busy talking on the radio, the boom knows where to look. If the number isn't in the system, assign the gas to somebody else in the same Sq. I haven't heard any 79000069 numbers yet, but that's probably because all of Rainman's disciples have retired by now. Sorry dude, that's just not equivalent. Besides, AWACS doesn't know where anybody is anyway. Ask the tanker what killbox he's in and fly there. If he doesn't know, he's wrong.

Well now's your last chance to go out and barrel roll that -10 before your OGV posts the FCIF. It's been posted on the West side... OK, so the million dollar question is: how did they get caught?

That King Air must have some shitty wiring. DO NOT TURN UPSIDE DOWN

Are they being booted from the MC-12 or totally from flying? Is there a reg that says "no barrel rolls"?

I bet all the required boxes were checked and paperwork signed. We as a service are so focused on satisfying the bureaucratic hoops that we can't see the big picture.

Sometimes I forget what the internet looked like before Adblock.

Flowers was the guy who helped son get through OTS. The father e-mailed the colonel again two days later — this time copying Brig. Gen. Alfred Flowers, the commander of Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools — to voice his concern that “some junior officers may be driving this train down a track that is irreversible.” “Isn’t the goal to try and graduate these kids?” Poulin wrote, later saying “a bit of leadership could have allowed for glide slope adjustments on the scene.”The colonel wrote Flowers that he was “feeling some pretty serious undue command influence.” Two weeks after being pulled from school, Poulin was back in OTS. Flowers had ordered him reinstated. Poulin graduated from OTS and received his commission in the fall of 2007. When questioned about his decision, Flowers told investigators the documentation — including discrepancies in scoring sheets — didn’t support Poulin’s dismissal, and he believed the OTS leaders acted subjectively. Flowers was steadfast that he was not pressured by Maj. Gen. Poulin to reinstate his son. The OTS leaders, according to testimony from the OTS commander, brought all the paperwork they could find, and “the documentation, as extensive as it is, wasn’t perfect. It rarely is.” “But the bottom line was,” the OTS commander said, “we’re paid to make these subjective decisions on who should be commissioned officers.” Otherwise, one of my fellow OTs got lit up by Flowers one day after walking by without saluting. We got some good laughs out of that one for a while.

Saw the news yesterday, terrible. Looking at the replay, Edwards was lucky he didn't get hurt worse; he caught the front of Marco's bike right on the chin. I've still got the race on DVR but haven't watched it yet; don't know if I will. What a shitty week in motorsports.