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QUIBBLING! (though an A+ for effort...:-)

nice...could have used powerpoint (pre-empting Rainmain)

of all the patches to complain about...

UFB. Hooray. Now we are equally miserable

WTF!? What would the LOC be for? Failure to exceed the standards by an arbitrary amount? While he's at it, he should probably raise the standard to 100.0. Clearly there is room for improvement...

Ahem...thread is Air-to-air pictures...

If you fly through Denver they allow ALL AD military personnel into their Red Carpet clubs for free...Free snacks, free booze

SHUT! THE! HELL! UP!!! Don't give the damn shoeclerks any more ideas!!!!!

FIFY

That sucks. Just tell them you are off-duty and not in your "work day"

Same location, different plane/crew:

Check the Deid thread

You seem to be very fixated on mothers, bit of an oedipus complex going on there? Don't worry, you'll grow out of it when you meet real women...that you don't have to pay for...

Thanks Captain Repeat. I guess you understand slides more than I do 'cause I had to look up what a "slide deck" was...

You could always chuck in a B-83 just for kicks as well...

Then you missed my previous response

To be fair, I think he's just trying to show that even under worse stressful conditions, maintaining a positive attitude is important. When I think of good things my commanders have done, I have to say that one of the best things any of them did was to sit us down as a squadron and lock the doors. He then asked us, what problems we were having. He had the exec write down everything on a white board. What he expected to be a 1 hr session went to nearly 3 hrs. We got a LOT off of our collective chests. At the end, he wrote down everything, told us that if anyone had any further things they didn't want to bring up in the group, he'd be in his office. A line formed otuside his office and he took complaints for the next couple of hours. Now anyone can sit there and listen to people bitch left and right, but HE DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! He wen and got stuff changed to make our lives easier. He started watching why we were stepping to the jets late. Instead of blaming the aircrew, he pointed out to the Group Commander that OG policies dictated the impossible for crews to step on time with the tasks they were required to do, much less if there were any problems. He made sure we had appropriate pubs for the jets and got on Stan/Eval to fix their programs. He worked with the OSS to have our gear ready for us at step time (not 5 minutes later). He took care of the little stuff and made us a better squadron. And it all started with a bitch session... ...put that in your pipe and smoke it Psychiatrist!

The "math errors" you cite clearly can't be true. We've been told that everyone is important and "we can't do the mission without you!" We also aren't making any cuts... ...in short, SOMEONE is lying, or clueless or both. On a related note to your post, AWESOME use of time at SOS. Far more productive than pointless "leadership" exercises

A-freaking men

To be fair to them, the pro bowl is notorious for flubbing the timing (starting early/late...those thirty seconds aren't very important for the singers, but they are for the guys traveling at 4-5 miles/minute!). Just look at previous years' videos of the flybys. Perhaps they'd look better in formation if they got more than 6 flights in a year. I mean HOW long were they grounded this time? Looks better than the crap we have now, but I too wonder what uniform this is...

Hey reckless driving was a crime long before drunk driving and cell phone usage were banned, but that didn't stop our lawmakers from passing more complicated laws...

For those who don't know how a slaughterhouse works, here's an educational video (no, Rainman, it isn't powerpoint...) My favorite line: Troy: Come on Jimmy, let's take a peek at the killing floor. Jimmy: Ohhh! Troy: Don't let the name throw you Jimmy... ...it's not really a floor, it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps-xbo8wnA

I know that this is rehashing stuff brought up a few months ago, but I thought it was worth mentioning This screening is largely done up-front before you commission and you are already getting the top 20% of the population. It also doesn't take into account training and money invested. Someone once calculated that to get a B-52 nav qualified, it takes ~$2.3 million and roughly 3 years of training. To get them to the point where they are proficient doubles that figure. To get them to be an instructor adds another 50% and 2 years. To be a good instructor, another 50 and another year. So, even if you have a rock star, it's gonna take 6 years and ~$6.9 million. If you fired nine out of every ten, sure, you'd have the cream of the crop (sts), but you'd never have enough instructors or qualified personnel. Looks like Netflix stock is indeed back on the rise.

RIF?