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It’s amazing how different airlines look at mil leave. My place of work is extremely supportive and I can drop mil leave no questions asked. However if you started dropping mil leave during the holidays they said it would raise a bunch of flags. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Is it a pdf? Does anyone mind sending it to me? Gracias! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Got a chance to talk to my old sister squadron Commander while he was doing his new-hire orientation ride at my airline. He punched before hitting 20 and told me that during his whole 2 year stint as a commander, he did not PCS a single Major. The Wing Commander called him and the other flying squadron commanders in and was seriously confused why no one was staying in past their Initial UPT commitment. UFB. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Heading to mediation soon. The story got crazier and crazier after my original post. One day soon when the dust settles I will entertain you all with the story. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Speaking of ANG promotions, the state just told me the ANG O-4 board should be released here within a week or so. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I bet Mav smashes Monica AKA Pilot Trainee 2 thus his terminal O-6 rank... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m sorry, let me rephrase that. I wonder if this will continue the excellent work of Jennifer’s topless scenes... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

More importantly, has Jennifer Connelly ever acted in a movie and not taken her clothes off? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Maybe I’m wrong but we basically have a flying only career track that tops out at O-4. Because if all you do is fly and scoff your desk job, in today’s environment you will make O-4, be passed over twice for O-5 and be continued until retirement. You will also be financially behind your peers who got out after 11 years and started flying for the airlines. If you don’t guarantee guys with no negative indicators a promotion to O-5 then it’s basically just relabeling what we already have now. At least an O-5 paycheck and retirement starts to make some of the math make sense... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Bummer Pawnman, hate it when guys that want to stay in and make a difference don’t get promoted to places where they can affect positive change. Keep your head up brother! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Both of them are really good peoples surprisingly. But the rest of us peons were just surprised nothing was done about it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Had an SP throw the T-6 to max power on a static takeoff while holding brakes which caused the brakes to lock up. The IP eventually took the aircraft but it still departed the runway and caused the nose gear to collapse. It took the RSU controller telling the IP to shut the engine off while the prop was grinding into the ground before the engine was secured. No Q-3 and the IP ended up as the Wing Exec and a school select shortly after. Had another IP do a touch and go on a 2500 ft uncontrolled field and no Q-3, after previously have been counseled for telling students to see how many continuous aileron rolls they could do on their solo. The student who broke the “record” recovered his aircraft around 2000 feet AGL, but was kicked out for lying about it. Nothing done to the IP. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

PickYour... nah. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I know a dude at United doing the same thing. He’s close enough to retirement that when he gets back he will finish out. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

While I can’t vouch for his T-38 time, he did fine in the T-6 and had a great attitude. If he had sucked super bad, the Commander at the time was sending guys to T-1s at other bases due to the pilot shortage and not risking T-38 washouts. Like Pawnman said, everyone in the chain recommended retraining to a different crew aircraft but almighty Rand new better than the people below him. I’ve flown with enough terrible co-pilots to know that he would have been successful in a different aircraft. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Good point. I meant a mobility aircraft. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

If this is the guy that I’m thinking about... similar stories. He is a really good dude and definitely didn’t deserve the treatment he got from the assclown 4-Star. I wrote that guy a letter to his FEB detailing his performance in UPT and how he would be more than fine in a crew asset. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

That’s awesome! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

The way I read it, you would need to be done with your 10 year UPT commitment. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah, I guess I just don’t understand what the big deal is if you had already finished your alert commitment for the month. I guess if you could somehow take leave that last week or try to drop one week of orders you would be good? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Ignorant question. Whats to stop someone from being on 30 day alert orders, sitting their 12 days of alert in the first 3 weeks of the month and then picking up and flying an airline trip the last week that you are off but still technically under orders? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

It was held up due to pushback from the SECDEF office if I remember correctly. We had a couple brothers on here effected where their names were pulled from both the “select” and “non-select” lists pending an appeal from the AF on why they should be promoted. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

What about just having an honest conversation with your Commander and telling him you feel like you need to win an award to be competitive for where you want to go, but that you feel like a dirty man-slut for submitting yourself? Ask him for promotion advice and let him draw the conclusion that he needs to put you in a position to win said awards. The Commanders that I Exec’d for always seemed to get giddy when someone came in who actually wanted to be promoted in the AF and asked for advice on how to do it. Most of the Commanders I had loved talking about how they got promoted and how their path went. Just a suggestion. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m getting a 404 error on the link, but whatever is going on sounds hilarious. Someone fill me in? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

If he had to give you a P because you were the only eligible, why the heartburn towards the Wg/CC? Lots of people have refused to do ACSC now a days. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app