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AFI36-3003 4.1.1.2. Unit Approval Level. Unit commanders are the approval authority for annual leave requests and normally delegate approval to a level no lower than the first-line supervisor. Supervisor is just the lower-limit of delegation. Talk to your flt/cc about what happened. Should be an easy fix.

Affirm. Not Cannon. https://www.cannon.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1198568/legacy-lost-the-524th-special-operations-squadron-moves-on/

Do it. Good flying. Good location. Good people.

The question isn't if they showed it to him. They almost certainly did. My question is which passages did they highlight/extract into the BLUF. Those who pare and control content also control the conversation.

Standups are going to get a lot easier... Your engine fails on takeoff---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL You have an oil overtemp---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL You have a gen fail---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL etc... Or, we could continue to teach airmanship and a PIC mentality.

The one on TPN? The idiocy of that dude's question almost baited me into a response. I really wonder if the people coming up with these ideas are actually pilots.

Both are state by state. In Oregon, age is a protected trait, 18 and up.

The best part is that it's Oregon. Therefore, rulings regarding cake sales should be immediately relevant.

I read it, but didn't see anything that looked shockingly different than AF fall protection program requirements. What did I miss?

Interesting choice by Dick's Sporting Goods today (https://pressroom.dicks.com/press-information/media-statements.aspx?camp=sns::20180227). Most of the headlines are focusing on the company's decision to stop selling AR-15s, along with their encouraging an AWB. Not much to see here, as it's totally up to them what they choose to sell. More interesting to me is their choice to limit sales of firearms to persons 21 and up. I'm no lawyer, but I thought that the CRA limited a business's ability to deny service based on protected traits. In many states, age has been added to that list of protected traits. Obviously, this wouldn't apply to something limited by law (like alcohol sales age, or existing laws on gun sales), but if someone is legally of age to buy a rifle, can a business legally discriminate based on age and deny the sale? Edit to add, the average age for mass shooters is 34, with the preponderance being white males. Just imagine if their discrimination criteria was "we won't sell guns to whites, males, or people between 30 and 39."

What's changed? Do they know something the average person doesn't? Specifically, are they worried about Gen Webb or Gen Thomas being replaced by someone coming up that has historically exhibited very different leadership priorities?

Open architecture sells the scorpion for me, but it already seems to be out. I think a-29 would fit the bill well too, better if they adopt open architecture. For the AT-6, after perusing the OBOGS thread, I can't fathom it being considered for combat.

So, if functions are pulled to A-staff if they support multiple sqs across the wing, why is there still a comm sq instead of straight A6? Barring cyber, doesn't that (and most of the other MSG functions) belong under that umbrella?

Yep, dude finally snapped out of the troll identity a few crises ago, made a few value-added posts, then disappeared for awhile.

UPT grad?

It's already in there... "(7) Subjecting another person to excessive or abusive use of water"

Sounds exactly like lockheed's brief during the F-35 factory tour I went on 10 years ago. They were bragging that they wanted a 'virtual gear handle' to go with all the other touchscreen tech, but DOD made them put in a real handle so pilots would feel better about it...

Good eyeball. Assuming 3 degree glideslope for the aircraft, along with wingspan and ground features, I have the suas at 1270 Agl.

If you're a math nerd, you can calculate this idiot's altitude and clearance from the plane based on the geometry of the aircraft and ground features.. To get you started, the plane is on approximately a 3.5 mile final to rwy 25 at KLAS. Cheers.

MQ9 SOs aren't the only community that uses/screws up gimbals.

Throughout your career, you'll face a number of key choices from which there is no return. I can say with confidence that I have no regrets for any choice I've made that was based on what I love or who I love. The only ones I wish I could take back were ALL centered on 'what will this do for my career?' Follow your passion, and take care of the people that are close to you.

Go find an officer recruiter. Or a guard unit. Really, REALLY, just go to OTS. Don't bother enlisting with hopes of maybe getting commissioned later.

Why not? Her dad was until a few years ago.

Excellent points. My list for sustainability aligns pretty closely, but with some amplifying points, in priority order... 1. Dwell. And it needs to be implemented yesterday. If there were 1000 F-16 pilots and 1000 F-16s, the AF would balk at a COCOM request for 1000 tails. The same should be true for maxing CAPs. Dwell doesn't need to be 2:1 or even 1:1. Make it 1:2 (programmed) like everyone else. Dwell needs to be by squadron. An entire squadron should spend four months preparing to fight a specific 5-6 CAPs for two months, and then hand the fight over to another squadron to prepare again. That's three squadrons sharing each CAP, three 6-CAP squadrons for every 6 CAPs, etc. There are not enough squadrons today to do that, so we should cut CAPs today. If we really need 60+ to survive/win our various wars, build enough squadrons to support that. "Because we're used to that many" isn't sufficient justification. 2. One daddy rabbit. MQ-9s shouldn't be split between two different MAJCOMs with two different priority sets. Having a bit of experience in both, my opinion is that the better strategic alignment for the MQ-9 is the MAJCOM that has the preponderance of other M-designated aircraft. If AFSOC does take over, yes that means Creech should be the third AFSOC base, and it should have all the BOS a normal base gets. Regardless, no major base should be the tenant of a host wing that's over an hour away. 3. Stop managing the manpower, policy, and systems as "RPAs". It's literally the only aircraft that's categorized according to its cockpit design. The only similarity between the MQ-9 and the RQ-4 is that the fly-by-wire goes through a satellite datalink. They are no more similar than a C-17 and F-15 that both have glass cockpits. 4. Companion (alpha) trainers are a great idea, but only during dwell, not combat. We need to be building airmanship for our 18x pilots beyond the 39 hours they get during IFS. I like the Cirrus SR22s the academy uses due to the minimal life support requirement.