Bigred

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...🤷‍♂️

I realize it’s only been 12-ish hours, but the rockets/missiles, a whole lot of bark but no bite?

https://mobile.twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1214718817361891329?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airwarriors.com%2Fcommunity%2Fthreads%2Firan.47037%2Fpage-5 Interesting developments. Must be considered serious if it’s impacting the bottom dollar.

Not getting spun up, just recaging ‘normalcy’ I suppose. Before I left the Navy most every O-6 pilot that hadn’t switched over to acquisitions, logistics, etc, had at least 3,000. Granted, to make O-6 as a pilot you had to have been an operational squadron commander and typically had a lot of flying tours. To frame how I’m personally looking at it, I’m a major up for O-5 this year, and I have almost 3,000 hours in helicopters across about 1,200 sorties. I’ve yet to log actual flight time in the -135.

Little known fact, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, they used drones.

I get the combat time, wrong place at wrong time can make all the difference in chest candy. I still think 2,200 hours is exceptionally low for a O-6 pilot. Am I off on that?

Beat me to it. 2200 hours for an O-6 seems exceptionally low, even for a pre 9-11 winged pilot.

Who is the waiver authority for something like that?

Not a commander, but still shows that if you polish a turd you just end up with a shiny piece of crap. https://taskandpurpose.com/airman-sex-assault

The Navy does have a process but the numbers are exceptionally small that do it. The irony is the Navy seems to make it easier to do (as compared to the AF) but less guys do it. From what I’ve seen it’s mainly because of how the officer career path is built and crossing from rotary to fixed, etc, can be difficult to recover from career wise.