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TSA extends the public travel mask mandate another two weeks…WTF is the point of that?

And the garrison wings are going to staff these A-staffs with what bodies?

Check your myvector. All my stuff (AMIC, ASPM, etc) shows up there under the experience-training tab with the PDS codes.

Rando question....anybody know how long it usually takes for the "as met" records to show up in PRDA after a board adjourns?

I got to this point when I saw the pictures of the Ukrainian family, including the mother and two children who were trying to flee and were killed by a mortar strike which seems to have intentionally targeted them. I feel a small amount of pity for them being conscripted, but at the same time, events like the one you noted shred any pretense of that and make me wish fully for their destruction.

I think I've given more Q1s with downgrades than I've given clean Q1s, but I've also never given a Q3, and honestly do not see the point of a Q2. That's an evaluator with no guts. Either put your instructor hat on and fix it in the debrief, or have the guts to Q3 them and defend your decision. Had a couple of cases that could've been argued into a Q3 by strictest interpretation of the Vol 2, but in my perspective the benefit of the doubt goes to the evaluatee. So, noted it, gave a downgrade in the appropriate area, debriefed it, and we moved on with life. At the end of the day, even with a downgrade your 942 is going to say Q1.

Rational me says the whole Ghost of Kyiv thing is implausible…but damn does it make for a good story! Just saw another story that the Ukrainian MoD is claiming to have shot down another Il-76. They’re giving the Ruskis all they can handle.

I mean, shutting down #7 for a rando high oil temp is one thing, but them TF-33s don’t usually flame out 😂

This was multiples engines if I recall correctly. Been a minute since that happened!

Every Buff flying today is a 60 or 61 tail. Some are champs. Some, like 60-0059, live to make the lives of crew dogs hell! She’s had flame outs over the Pacific, hydro leaks forcing real world no flap landings…even has her own song, set to the tune of “sweet Caroline”. “Balls 59…wouldn’t fly you if I could”

I really hate how every wing has their little -isms and how that comes back to screw people. I was lucky to get an SDE push on my last OPR, but I remember the one prior (post in-res IDE looks) and the conversation was something like “he’s a major, we don’t need to put an SDE push yet” or something like that.

Probably stay in Omaha, which means a commute to probably MSP or DEN

Probably doesn’t apply to most on this forum, but as a humble navigator CFIing my ass off and eighteen months from ATP mins…. …..best regional in your collective opinions? Looking mostly at SkyWest and Endeavor at this point.

What an enlightened response….

Ah, yes, the consumption memorandum! Some traditions are still alive. New Buff crew dogs are still being spoofed on their generations with this!

I’m guess I’m just a knuckle dragger, but can someone break down why this is a good thing? Feels like change for changes sake.

I’d like to think after bungling it spectacularly last year, they’ll course correct back to something more like the FY19 bonus….but that implies intelligence and caring on the AF’s part.

Offutt only went down about $25....not that military families are getting into bidding wars here during PCS season and having to offer tens of thousands over asking price though...

I tried phone patching my then-fiance, now wife, coming home from Guam. The MARS guy was super helpful, but when he got her on the phone, he didn't use, ya know, plain English and say "Hi ma'am, I'm Bob with the USAF MARS radio network. I have a phone call to connect you with"...he said "This is (whatever his MARS radio callsign)"...the Mrs was thoroughly confused, told him he had the wrong number and hung up on him. It was only later when she was on the bus with the other ladies waiting to pick us up from the flight line that she realized it was me trying to call her. We had a good laugh about it, at least!

In my mind, this issue really boils down to where the country is right now. I don't think we've ever been as divided and bitter as we are right now, and it's for multiple reasons. Party politics is one reason...twenty years of war is another. Even if the president decided to commit to military action, going force on force with Russia or China is a far different animal than counter insurgency ops along the Euphrates. I just do not think the American people have any appetite for seeing young Americans coming home in body bags, likely by the tens of thousands, fighting for a country that most people probably can't find a map and that I would argue, does not come across as beneficial to us.

Typical…it was too good to be true, so they had to fuck with it…

So what do y’all think the odds are that A) those 90K Russians on the Ukrainian border are there to invade and if they do, that B) we’ll do anything about it? I’m not sure we will. Putin has picked his timing perfectly to coincide with the fallout of our Afghan withdrawal IMHO.

Four years almost to the day since Paul Barbour’s crash…what the hell is with November… 🥃

Remember when you weren’t a dickhead? Oh wait…. Cheers 🇺🇸