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Check out post #1812 in "promotion and PRF information"...someone saw an email stating 84%...where did you hear 72%?

This guys story to crime began with subtle jokes in UPT, escalated when he listened to a Beatles song, quickly putting him across the "red line" into "I wanna bone a 13-yr old being pimped out by her dad." Where was his wingman? What could we as the USAF have done better to prevent this. Maybe it was the mermaid handled beer mug, WW2 nose art, song books or the sports illustrated swimsuit issue. Most likely though, it was Yoga pants. No more yoga pants in base gyms.

I've seen it used in both -16s and -10s...with a gateway, it works very well with Link 16 for air to air SA. A/G it is terrific but many times the gnd units are dislocated from the radio set so they still must be tracked via other means. As for CAS, you'll hear engineers say digital CAS is great via VMF and other means. Most pilots think it sucks. Ok for getting mission info on the way there but once in the AO, I prefer radio comms and old school Com flow.

69x better and more useful than the current SARC brief but the stick figures are naked so this video is offensive and could cross the red line of jokes, rape, swimsuit magazines, forceable sodomy, being a pilot, etc.

I thought it was a great look into religion and the ability/want of people to believe and accept something higher to believe in. In the end, I think we are just all tuned differently. I grew up Christian, my brother is a pastor and the best example of a Christian I can think of. I simply always had questions and did not accept the final answer from church when I asked too many the answer was.. "you just need faith -or- its all part of Gods plan... I grew out of religion the same way I see kids growing out of believing in Santa Clause. I don't need a lot of proof, I do need something, but so far I've seen nothing. I'll never say there is absolutely 100% no God. I also won't make my life/money/family decisions based off a translated 2000 yr old book with zero proof of it being credible.

Meh, who cares. Atheists complaining about Christians, Christians complaining about atheists. Just be agnostic. Science hasn't given us all the answers (such as when all this universe stuff began and who/what caused the Big Bang and neither has a 2000 yr old book written by 69+ different people that tells you to love everyone and treat your slaves well. For a good look at religion, read "under the banner of heaven" to see religion at its finest.

You wouldn't return any of it because you'd be on your 365 as you signed an adsc for 5 more years.

I've seen guard heavy guys get a -38 vs T-1 with a handle of Jack from the unit cc. Sometimes if there is space, it benefits all involved, especially the student, who becomes universally assignable if his unit shuts down and he goes looking for a new job. I saw one Kc-135 bound guy go thru -38s and do so well they helped him switch to a fighter unit, with the approval of his -135 ANG boss who was a former fighter guy with connections. Weird things can happen.

Yeah but hopefully people are smart enough to know each day they delay the decision it costs them $68.49....there is incentive to sign early, so I'd be surprised if a ton of people waited until the last minute.

I'd like to know the story behind the incident. Anyone from Laughlin have the DL?

Dumped more into BNO and USO....oil will comeback eventually.

Was the AIB ever released for this crash?

Assignments are handled on an excel spreadsheet by a GS. When I was a -38 flt/cc during the time when there was a 1yr BIT program for fighter bound guys, myself and some other flt/cc's were annoyed that student #5/5 was waiting for his F-16 FTU while we had to give the #1/7 a FAIP slot 1 month later because the fighter slots had dried up. Went to the source to try to unfvck the situation. BL is it s not flexible. The GS lady gets the total # of slots and tries to distribute them evenly. For bombers, if there is only 1, it is rotated among the bases. Base OG's can trade jets. I've seen this and some really shady/shitty stuff (ie trade 2 f-16s for a 15E and B-52 so a former WSO could get back to his jet. Tough to watch the guy soak up the bomber and see his fighter dream crushed by that crap). I saw trades made hours before assignment night where we had to change the slides. Sometimes good news: F-15C upgraded to F-22....usually bad: fighter traded for bomber/U28 for shady reasons. A lot of guys in all different airframes have no idea how close they were to flying/not flying fighters. Same goes for track select. If you think the T-38s always go to the most deserving/wanting pilots...no. And if you saw the behind the scenes PC bs and double standards for females, you'd be utterly disgusted.

Politician words...I remember when the shoes got bronze stars for doing their jobs...I'm leary of anyone who would insert themselves into a fight on the PC big blue side of things. Stars change people. "No one Air Force Specialty Code is any more important than the next in this theater — it takes the entire team working together to get the job done," he wrote in the April 30, 2012, letter. "Airmen like Tech. Sgt. Christina Gamez and Tech. Sgt. Sharma Haynes are the bedrock of our organization."

Welsh and the USAF have ZERO desire for any A-10 replacement. Any talk of one is simple politics (aka adding the A to F/A-22 to get it through) to make it look like they care to further expedite the A-10 divestment. When the A-10 is finally gone, you won't hear anything about the CAS/light attack/Coin mission. Smoke and mirrors.

I'm up 20% on Halliburton....which is offsetting most of my other energy stocks I bought on the way down......keeping about even the year. Today I bought: BBEP, LINE, SDRL, SD, HK.......I have been reading a lot on how many speculators are starting to dump money in to energy as its held steady low (i.e. the bottom) for a bit...I figure in 5 years I'll be in the black. I still can't pull myself to dump all my savings into it though so I just DCA the market each month so and look for the ones who have been crushed but still have some clout.

Just having a blast seeing all the current F-35 news and imagining the faces of top USAF staff when they read it. https://www.stripes.com/news/us/first-version-of-f-35s-will-not-outdo-a-10-in-battlefield-capabilities-1.340143

Double digit SAMs have been around over 30 years, this is not some new emerging threat, legacy jets were always gonna have issues. I doubt the F-35 ever kicks down the door. We have better options. As the envisioned $50m per copy LO, 2010 F-16 replacement, the F-35 was great. Now as a $140m per copy, 2022 to have the same capes as legacy fighters....just a shitshow. It's not tough, do you want cheap, effective capes for the most likely threat (Islamic shitholes)? Or should we ditch the most cost effective, most used jets to prep for the unlikely war with China?

LOL x69....an F-16 pilot in this scenario is helping the supporting agency (space) to support the pilot appropriately. Essentially the F-16 pilot is supporting himself, a skill perfected having done many support jobs himself during the non-combat workweek because the supporting agency was at PT, closed for training, on a 2 hr lunch break, outside the Std work hours of 0930-1530 (again 3:30 pm for you) C'mon Gravedigger, I'm just having fun. I appreciate the support weenies (mostly) and have a healthy respect for their work (usually), and I admittedly love to sport bitch (commonly misunderstood as whining). Do you think I really believe I'm under appreciated, under paid and more valuable than EVERY other AFSC? Of course not, is what I'd say if I were lying to make you feel better about yourself and your subpar I feel sorry for you AFSC compared to my pilot Godliness.

LOL, the reason many support AFSCs need "shifts" is to define their work hours otherwise they'd only work approx 69 minutes a day, most of that on facebook or drinking coffee.

I prefer "sport bitcher". Whining is what a support weenie shoeclerk does when they can't beat the 1630 (that's 4:30 pm to you) traffic out the front gate.

Cool, it can land anywhere, as long as "anywhere" has a secial Lockheed designed and sold super-special-landing pad installed which requires delivery by a C-17 needing a runway. https://news.yahoo.com/stealth-jump-jet-t-094241674--politics.html

Reading stuff about RPAs/pilot shortage, made me recall an incident at my base about 10 yrs ago, that still infuriates me. A fighter pilot G-locs during a training sortie (at an operational sq). Wakes up just in time. The guy had a family, new kid etc. and had been struggling in the jet. Tells his leadership that he would like to volunteer to go fly RPA's when they were just starting up and needed people. Instead of letting a good motivated dude volunteer for RPA's, he got FEB'd, lost his wings, reflowed into an overcrowded shoe afsc and RIF'd a year later. Tough to feel bad for an organization that has manning woes after seeing shit like that.

If one gets non-continued but has taken a retention bonus up front, must that be repaid?

See PRF thread where it was argued that exec skills far outweigh pilot skills/leadership ability for getting ahead in the USAF.