Sprkt69

The stupid color vision test is not helping either.

You mean they didn’t just eject?

As a G-suit wearer, I don’t care about your 2-piece. The Air Force left the Army for a reason.

They are MLUs

What’s even more awesome is when you leave AD for the Guard, make rank and still get a federal retirement while not dealing with the fallout from those HPOs

Contract ADAIR companies are starting to pick up F-16s for one.

There are also too many students that only have a 1.0-ish tactical mind at that point of development, as seen in the FTU. More problems than its worth IMO

You forgot to mention there are GS13 step 6 starting with a bonus out there, if you have the quals. There are other ways to get retirement, or even 2 retirements

Go on....

Or the _____ award winner.

Anyone else see this? https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/difficult-decisions-practical-policy-for-the-air-forces-pilot-retention-crisis/ It seems to me that they get too focused on the fly-only track and not about the “time” issue everyone seems to be having issues with.

Only if you are in a location that serves, otherwise best go make friends with TF

Gotta do something with those end of year funds! Kinda like the reason why the DFAC always has 69 flat screens to tell you “Have a great Air Force day!”

It’s already happening. Besides, the newer retirement plan should help convince people to separate from AD even more so.

https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/09/18/air-force-wants-halt-pilot-attrition-appealing-sense-community.html I’m not sure SECAF and the rest of management actually understand the problem they have with manning or know the meaning of the word “trust”

It’s funny how much even a worn out F-16 is worth these days. We can’t exactly afford to lose a bunch more to stupid mistakes and lack of baseline training.

So requiring stripping experienced pilots from other airframes to fill. Seems like a great plan (sic)

I love when finance holds up operations when they didn’t do their job. I’ve been on back-to-back TDYs with a small interval in between being told I would not have the funds released for the second TDY since my first travel voucher was not paid yet. I asked hold long it takes finance to do that and was told 2-3 months. After mentioning that they will have to explain why I would not be leaving on the next TDY to the Grp/CC, magically the funds were freed up. Still took two more months for the first travel voucher to be paid though.

Depends on where the firefight starts. Think urban where the troops are among the populace before the fight initiates. To your point about firefights, the enemy liked to target the dude wearing a backpack radio or the HMMWV/MRAP with extra antennas on it. I was informed prior to deploying downrange that my guys were to wear the ABU when outside the wire. I asked if it was a good idea to have my guys wearing something made for 72 degree cubicles that melts to ones body for combat operations in a desert. I was then told to just pick up my container of crayolas and do as ordered. Officially, I informed my guys of the order. Unofficially I made sure they would not be permanently wearing ABUs if things went sideways outside the wire.

Are you trying to talk about the guys who wore the same uniform as their assigned unit but had a big JTAC patch and a radio strapped to them? The ABU was terrible in the field and should not have been worn in combat as it melts to you. As cubicle camouflage, fine whatever.

Does one need to learn how to think in Russian to fly this Firefox you speak of?

Same could be said about people having to actually learn their 3-1

F that. You can keep your 2 piece

Anyone have the PTN syllabus?

Was it the use of only the top 0.01% that clued everyone to “too visible to fail”? I do not believe these 4 students that are going direct to a Block 30 Viper (1 of 2 F-16 FTU units without AGCAS and an engine/airframe combo that can kill the stupid and the weak ) with only 30 hours of T-6 time were set up for success. It would have been better to send them to a Block 42 that can at least try to save them. My real fear is when Big Blue goes full retard and starts sending the Students that are no where near the top 0.01% to the FTUs and expect similar results.