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  1. MSCguy
    Or late Friday afternoon right before everyone takes off for two weeks of Xmas break.
  2. MSCguy
    FSS buddy said that he got an email from A1 today that said LAF Majors board for the 05 dudes will have a promotion opportunity of 85%, down from the traditional 90%. I wonder how many guys in this YG will get denied VSP; get retained on the RIF, and then get passed over and get hosed on the sep pay because they're offered continuation as a Capt a year later on the second passover.
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    Thanks for all the advice-apparently the union told her to shove off and nothing got filed after all. The does not meet appraisal is inevitable though-it seems like that's easier to do than actual written discipline. The crappy appraisals stay on file for a lot longer than written warnings.
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    This kind of goes in this thread...I believe I am having a grievance filed on me by a GS-9 that I supervise. I gave written counseling that I feel she is deficient on certain parts of her PD (neglecting certain tasks) and set suspenses to address said deficiencies. Apparently getting suspensed to do your job is too much for some people and she had a meeting with the union rep today. Is there any way in hell I'm going to get in any trouble over this? My CC told me he thinks the grievance is a joke and he supports me. Is there any way in hell I'm going to get in any trouble over this?
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    When I was an enlisted reservist with a bachelors that had been completed before joining the military I got the same line every time I had a feedback session: "Get your commission, college graduates are supposed to be officers." I don't know why the AF puts such an emphasis on degrees for enlisted. In the civilian world we had a word for college graduates doing jobs that required a high school diploma: Underemployed.
  6. MSCguy
    Because of the shit storm that happened in 2011 when the AF cut loose a bunch of twice passed over majors. As posted in another forum somewhere on here continuation is normally offered to officers twice passed over within five years of twenty. It's cheaper to let the passed over dudes retire at 15 or 16 than continue them to 20, and also cheaper than possibly defending a huge class action lawsuit.
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    And has anyone on line side that is on the VML and subject to RIF or force shaping gotten an assignment? In medical we've had some Capts on the VML get told they're staying here for a fifth year and their functional doesn't want to pay for any moves until they figure out who is staying in and who isn't.
  8. MSCguy
    What's the 13S culture like? I was enlisted in MX (culture:work your hands to the bone to keep the pilots happy) and am now an MSC (replace pilots with doctors in the previous sentence). The few 13S dudes that I've met have had the "I couldn't make the cut to be Aircrew so FML" attitude.
  9. MSCguy
    Anybody who wears their rank on their flight cap would be management at a regular company (unless you're an airline pilot)
  10. MSCguy
    The senior rater has to strat all the way down on the RRFs per the RIF PSDM. Give yourself that 200/200 strat on your draft RRF-he'll probably get the message.
  11. MSCguy
    I think the line needs to learn from medical and separate the rated dudes from the non-rated dudes into different competitive categories. In medical we have five compcats: docs, dentists, nurses, MSCs (administrators), and BSC (every other medical officer job that doesn't fit into the other compcats). We have certain command jobs earmarked for each corps, so MSC always gets X number of sq and gp command slots and doesn't have to worry about the nurses, etc stealing our slots. We compete for promotion against other MSCs, nurses against other nurses, etc. Reason for that is we're all too different to fairly judge across career fields.
  12. MSCguy
    Hey now, don't take away the opportunities to go back and waste more time on a college campus via an AFIT Civ degree program.
  13. MSCguy
    If I were a pilot and saw that #18 on the list I would GTFO. If a company in the real world put producing their product as priority #18 they'd be out of business within a year.
  14. MSCguy
    Almost any non-rated officer could make that argument...somehow I doubt ACC, AMC, etc put developing personnel officers, loggies, etc at the top of their list.
  15. MSCguy
    Where is Vetter? I remember him saying in another thread that he was passed over twice, refused continuation, and he was sent a bill for the last year of his UPT ADSC.
  16. MSCguy
    Is this only for certain bases or majcoms? Haven't heard anything about it at my base-I have a GS that I would love to steer towards VERA.
  17. MSCguy
    He flew F-86s in Korea. It wasn't a total loss-some of the nurses bought his book he was hawking because they felt sorry for him. On another note, when I was still in MX and had to babysit a static display KC-135 on wing open house day it really bothered me when cops or CE dudes from our wing had to ask me what kind of plane it was. You're in an Air Refueling Wing-chances are it's a tanker.
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    When I was at COT some old fighter pilot in his late 80s came to talk to us-a bunch of medics, attorneys, and chaplains. At the end of his allocated hour at least 75% of the room was fast asleep-they don't call Boyd Auditorium the big red bed for nothing.
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    They don't want to look like the CC that drove all their people to get out.
  20. MSCguy
    Remember that kid in your ROTC det that was scared of taking any courses that remotely resembled math and majored in underwater basketweaving? Today he is that personnel officer at AFPC coming up with the manning numbers.
  21. MSCguy
    I believe the PSDM requires justification for a DNR, just as a DNP. That being said, knowing that they have to strat all the way down, getting an R and a 9/9, etc strat will probably work just the same as a DNR.
  22. MSCguy
    The PSDM got revised, but the mathematical explanation for the sep payment calculation is still wrong. There's nothing in the PSDM that says different, so I'm going with the idea that the commissioning year group is what they're going to look at for medical. That will get very interesting, as we rarely use those year groups because the constructive service credit puts people who commissioned in the same year into several different YGs for promotion purposes. It's possible to come in as high as Lt Col in medical, so there will be some O5s and CGOs in the same commissioning year group being boarded against each other.
  23. MSCguy
    Yes, I meant boarded. I was curious about that because I'm in a career field with a boatload of prior Es, some of which have the "I can retire as a captain or junior major so I'm just going to take up space until I hit 20 years" attitude. I'm just saying that the quality of the guys with 20+ that get retained from the ESERB might not equate to the quality of the non-priors retained from the RIF of the same career field and year group. It would be a fairer process to board the entire year group together, and hand out retirements and RIF payments as appropriate.
  24. MSCguy
    So in a yeargroup that has ESERB-able and RIFF-able guys, are they all read together and then retired or separated as appropriate, or are they read completely separately?
  25. MSCguy
    The ESERB matrix is posted-something like an overage of 77 majors with 29 eligibles. That only refers to the majors with 20+. I think someone figured out that now that the flightpath is out the window and the providers are going to get more command slots back (sounds like what the line is doing with putting zipper suits in a bunch of non-rated FGO slots) they no longer have to promote enough MSCs to fill SGA slots and command the backwater MTFs, Since MSC is all of a sudden way over manned I wonder if they'll start approving compcat transfers out to undermanned fields elsewhere.
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