Bigred

Control yourself before you try to control others. If you have a disease or have an immunodeficiency, it’s on you to avoid situations that puts you at risk. Case in point, saying it’s irresponsible for 200 boaters to be on the water while ignoring the hundreds of people at Wal-Mart sorta defeats the argument. I’m more at risk being near the fat fvck hacking in the cereal aisle than I would be if I was on my Bassmaster 3000. Hell, if you’ve never been fishing on a lake before, boaters typically get pissed if you’re closer than a 100 yards from their fishing hole. My bigger point, I can get behind barring gatherings in a place like a movie theatre, or sporting events. When you start telling people they can’t go hiking, by themselves, or can only exercise within a few hundred yards of their house, we’ve officially reached Ludicrous Speed.

The Navy gives a ship CO an incredible amount of latitude on how they deal with their boat. The Admiral has a say, but it’s mainly on having boat A in location B to do the fighting. 99.9% of the actual boat day-to-day is left up to the CO. In my opinion, what makes this whole situation completely f-ed up is that SECNAV relieved him. If the relief was going to happen it should’ve been (or I would’ve expected) from the strike group admiral or 7th Fleet, or at highest Pac Fleet. The fact that it went all the way to SECNAV makes me think that the chain of command was actually OK with the letter.

If something is classified, it gets sent via SIPR or higher. If something is sensitive but not classified, it gets sent encrypted on NIPR. Saying sensitive but not classified info now needs to go on SIPR is frankly BS.

Two points that have irked me. First, nothing in the letter he sent was classified information. Having spent 18 years in the Navy, I’m pretty familiar with what reporting requirements are classified on ship readiness. The Captain was brilliant in the way he phrased his letter because none of it hit the classified mark. Second, he is being denigrated for the letter leaking. From some friends of mine on the 7th Fleet staff, he didn’t leak it, someone else did. Holding Capt Crozier responsible for it leaking would be the same as me sending a SIPR email, it gets leaked by someone on the to or cc line, and it’s my fault it leaked. Capt Crozier did what he needed to to help his sailors. I’m not surprised he got fired because it made his chain of command look bad, and people don’t like being told by their subordinates that they are all ed up.

Bye Felicia... https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html

Damn, if I wasn’t on the flight schedule, that was always my go to reason why I couldn’t donate when the mobile blood bank came around (I was born in Europe in early 80s) ‘I got the mad cow, yo’

As long as you refrain from using your rank, affiliation with the military, or anything that would imply an endorsement or opinion of the military, go for it.

I read Hydroxy and immediately thought of this. I can see the ads now. "Sick, feeling wheezy, but you're also a fatty and need to drop 184 pounds? Have I got a deal for you!"

Anyone hears if upcoming boards will be pushed right? The Navy apparently just suspended all boards after 24 Mar until a date to be determined. I wouldn’t be surprised if the AF follows suit.

Got an email from my Sq/CC today that stated the following chances In the upcoming boards. The rate for the Colonel board was the most surprising. O-4: 95% O-5: 85-90% O-6: 60-65%

An ‘almost’ what’s wrong with the Air Force. Mother Blue doesn’t recognize the Navy SERE C course to the extent that an AFI actually says Navy SERE C attendees have to do the full on AF SERE C course. I fell into that category, yay me. Well, turns out there’s a DoD instruction that says only one level C course in a person’s lifetime, so I dodged that bullet. Only posting because the SERE Chief at the MAJCOM knew the DoDI existed but didn’t pull his insistence that I attend the full SERE C course until I pointed out the DoDI. Mf’er.

Got mine today, 3/9 I/APZ with ‘if I had one more DP, he’d get it’. We got two DP outright at our wing. According to the OG I fared well at the MLR but didn’t squeak out a DP from there. Better than I expected. The rest of the two lines make me look like a rockstar so hopefully it’ll pay off in May.

What's the value of $14,000 put into a 529 fund (or similar) when your kid turns 18? 14 years is a long time to let that build.

For those of us that didn’t do Air Force UPT, how fast is this in comparison to non-PTN?

I don’t like beards in uniform, and that’s my personal opinion. If we are changing the policy to allow beards for religious purposes, then we should allow everyone to have beards. Reason being; equality across the board while in uniform is key. While it’s for ‘religious purposes’, it gives someone an extra benefit not available to everyone else, and it’s not a function of their job or duty position. At the end of the day, I’m still against the idea of beards not because of the dudes that can grow a full beard but because of those dudes that can’t. I don’t wanna see guys walking around in uniform that haven’t shaved in three weeks and have the white-trash trailer park style beard going on.

Supposedly the flyover was briefed to the 2-star at 600’ and 350 knots but they went 200’ and 500 knots. Big deal? To me, not really. Taken in the context with the F-18/C-130 mishap (failures on all levels, pilot to leadership), I hate to say I can understand why the 2-star did a knee jerk firing. If a CO can either blow off flying the profile he briefed to the general, or is such a poor aviator to be off parameters that much, what does that show to the junior folks in his squadron? I don’t necessarily agree with the firing but I can understand it.

I realize this question may be highly subjective based on a lot of factors, but is there a pecking order amongst the majors?

Here’s one from the Navy, involving a former Skipper of mine. When I was a lowly LTjg, this guy seemed like a real class act. Guess not. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/mobile/article/news/verdict-navy-captain-found-guilty-on-six-counts/77-6dccdee4-39ac-418d-94c0-e59980d86766

It was in the NDAA authorizing the changes to the promotion system. The Navy already implemented merit based reordering on their selection boards last year.

Ah, my bad, and sure. This will be promotion rate/DP rate. Dunno if it's on MyPers yet. LAF-A: 90% / 50% LAF-N: 85% / 45% LAF-S: 90% / 50% LAF-I: 90% / 50% LAF-C: 85% / 45% LAF-F: 85% / 45%

For the LAF-A category, the final allocation memo states 90% selection rate with a 50% DP allocation.

Ok...gay ‘athletic endeavor’. Better?

I gotta imagine there’s enough turds in the punch bowl with uif or prt failures that’ll make up that 10%. So yeah, there may be a chance.

DP allocation attachment is floating around now for the upcoming O-5 board (at least for USAFE). I'm hearing that it's a 90% promotion opportunity in the LAF-A (pilot/spec war) category. The other categories are between 85-90%.

It’s Ukrainian and a passenger on board had information that would’ve led to the arrest of Hillary Clinton...🤷‍♂️