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Nope. Maybe Duke. Everything else is based on the reality of 2012, especially regarding MQ-9.

If personnel has thousands of hours to spend on something like this, I think they might be slightly overmanned.

I get the 18X. What exactly are they going to do with a non-deployable pilot? Queep backfill? Staff? UPT?

The date of the first job after AFPAK coincides with O-6 pin-on. The centcom job was probably a more important fill for an O-6.

ATIS? Where they're going, they don't need ATIS. #AFSOC

I strongly agree with this one. As horribly as the new enlisted rating system (SCOD/Forced Distribution) was bungled during rollout, it's becoming a good system. I would like to see something very similar at the O level. 1. SCOD OPR's to coincide with PRF timelines. 2. Each signatory on the OPR gives two strats with a denominator equal to their total rating pool, a professional strat (#7/121 Captains) and a technical strat by AFSC (#21/25 11S3M). The whole pool gets stratted, and there would be a 200/200. Of course, the flight/cc's pool would be tiny, the sq/cc's would be much larger, and the group or wg/cc would be extremely large. 3. Allocate promotions by career field requirements and give the promotion board authority to the DTs.

I just want to know if the dudes that dropped the MOAB from the MC-130 were T-1 or T-38 grads.

Concur. My money's on either GS-5 working in some closet at AFPC or a SrA personnelist who failed 4x PT tests and was administratively separated, now living in his mom's basement. Either way, classic troll just churning for a reaction.

I haven't heard this much quibbling since week 2 of UPT, and that guy ended up becoming a personnelist.

This quote from the stripes article makes no sense... “If I don’t have pilots to fly, the enemy has a vote, and if I can’t put warheads on foreheads, then (ISIS) is winning,” he (Everhart) said. First, how does not having enough pilots to fly mean the enemy has a vote, especially in the context of a stop loss discussion? Is the enemy the airline industry? Certainly their vote is taken away by stop loss. Are pilots that choose to leave somehow the enemy of a broken system? He does reference ISIS after, with an aside that AMC is putting warheads on foreheads. Sure, ISIS is an enemy but how would they be influencing the number of pilots AMC has to fly?

You asked about life as a pilot's wife, not life as the girlfriend of a guy who is going through pilot training, so I'll address your question. First, he may want to be a fighter pilot, but there are no guarantees there. Regardless of the plane he earns, there are similarities for all pilots. We all owe 10 years after graduation. We all work long hours. Even though the flavors are different, we all have lots of time away from home. If you do end eventually marrying him, or another military pilot, dealing with that separation will be your reality. It's not as big of a deal if you are also a working professional since you're on parallel paths, although you will get much more practice at long distance relationships. It can be very challenging once you add kids into the equation. He'll also move to a new city every 3-4 years and if you go with him, you'll have to repeatedly restart your career. Of course, there are definite positives too, but they don't come without sacrifice.

If only AFI 36-2903 was written to be in compliance with AFI 33-360, 1.9.3.2.1 and table 1.1, there wouldn't be so much confusion as to who can waive the requirement to keep sleeves down. If, for example, "Non-compliance puts Airmen, commanders, or the USAF strongly at risk of mission or program failure, death, injury, legal jeopardy or fraud, waste or abuse." The the AFI's approving official would have to be consulted. If not, it could easily be waived by MAJCOM/CC or even Wing/CC. Certainly, a GO at HAF should have the necessary authorities.

Thanks all. This thread's turned into a goldmine of info and addressed questions I didn't even know I had. It's good to have the diverse expertise of the BODN community to lean on. I think we've narrowed our search on Navarre, Niceville, and possibly Gulf Breeze. Thx again!

Awesome gouge. Thx guys. Are FWB/Mary Esther decent enough for a family, or is the drive (either direction) worthwhile?

Thread resurrection. Moving this Summer. Any updated info on the living situation at Hurby? Has the new overpass at the main gate improved traffic on 98?

The only swords either one will see will be the ones presented by the enlisted corps at retirement. Why? Because our nation perceives us as a peacetime military. A peacetime military is only really good for two things; maintaining sufficient readiness to deter war and funneling money to congressional districts. As a nation, we're really good at doing at least one of those.

34:20, 55:20, and 1:06:30

Like the Bennett, Fisher, Pitsenbarger, and Chapman?

Politics favors detailed integration, even when no ground forces exist.

Crap. Praying for their families.

Yep. Ever since Tony sold to Bright Mountain Media, let's just say the blog's quality has declined a little.

I've been a supporter of light strike for a long time, but as time goes on, I'm starting to see more and more holes in the idea. The real question that's bugging me is, why do we need it? What strategic or tactical need does it fulfill that's not covered by our current menu of options, or would it be creating a new role for itself? For us, it would fall somewhere between the MQ-9 and the A-10 as a CAS aircraft on the persistence/survivability/armament scale. Sure, a gap exists between those aircraft now, but it could be as easily filled by upgrading the MQ-9 as creating a whole new aircraft to address its shortcomings. I do think it definitely could fill a broader strategic role of Kinetic FID like we did for the Afghans. For conventional missions, however, what does it bring to the fight that an existing asset (or a slightly upgraded existing asset) doesn't?