SurelySerious

What's the PRI on this, 6 months? Maybe a little longer?

You mean direct feedback? You should try it sometime. It's amazing how much more effective a fighting force is when the expectations are clear and improper performance is corrected.

It's not that I don't understand your idea, I just disagree. Edit: you can't handle a simple Border Patrol question and you want to ask for someone's identity just to post on a forum? Really?

Right, because a username and password are stopping the Chinese. Heck, scoobs is probably just some high school hacker anyway. If the discussion can't happen in the open, take it to the vault. 2 on historical perspective and Steve Davies, etc. Plus, this can provide a lot of information for prospective candidates with no military affiliation (like the whole accessions forum). Attitude adjustment, probably; "exclusivity" and a dressing room curtain, no.

Who set the requirements, and who designed/built it? I'm sure LM could make it worthwhile to the shareholders on a gov't contract. But seriously, we've sent some and need to send more.

Definitely not discounting the value in our humanitarian efforts, purely because we can help people or because it looks good, either way, but the leadership cover-my-ass reaction to this threat our people will be facing was classic.

No, it's good; we'll issue an FCIF telling you not to get Ebola. Whew, glad the risk is mitigated.

How do pistols help if there's a stowaway in the wheel well? That location seems to take care of aliens on its own.

Effing bureaucracy. Maybe Welsh is too nice (apart from his tour being nearly complete). Sometimes, you might need a person both revered and feared.

I don't know, based on the incredibly exciting and not-at-all-dry-and-boring 6-9 hour contractor CRM brief every year, apparently it is.

SMM

You have about a 96.9% chance of success at going AD AMC to AD ACC in RPAs.

There are multiple aircraft flying from any location. The busier ones require crews to be launching or recovering for 12 hours a day, 120 days straight, and the less busy ones are similar but less compact scheduling. No one deploys constantly; everyone flies MCE missions stateside. It's a compartmentalization like any other because the squadron environment is at the squadron and isn't like your home, and your home is at home and isn't like your squadron. You drive to work and then, like other professionals, brief the sortie, fly the sortie, debrief the sortie, and leave the sortie at work before driving home. Sometimes it involves having seen frustrating things, having seen graphic things, or having felt really good about some assistance you provided...the end state is all the same, though, it stays at work.

As backwards as it sounds, despite being 'closer to the action,' you get a lot less time doing any mission work while deployed. It's 96.9% takeoff and land, with some base defense if your deployed location requires/can accommodate it. You'll just be closer.

The acquisition cost is low now, the operating cost the AF shows people is low, but satellite bandwidth is expensive. Very.

Except none of them get along with the people in the next town, let alone 690 miles away.

True, but they play a different role, organic to Army commanders, than how the Air Force fleet functions (theater level asset under the Air Component, theoretically like any CAS or ISR asset). The enlisted/officer debate has gone on before, and there's no simple answer.

It would be a waste of a theater-level asset because it would be allocated to a ground commander who would put a 5km tether on it so no one else could steal it from him.

Must be one at HO since we're dropping orders for non-IP 1Lts to PCS to HO as FTU IPs at exactly 2 years on station from CH.

Nice. My school had a Sexual Violence Awareness CBT (Title IX requirement for registration), but it wasn't invasive. Frankly, the AF could probably stand to learn from it.

I think everything is pretty accurate except these two. Typically one 126.9 day deployment per assignment cycle unless you volunteer for another. I've never seen leave be that much of a problem, either, even when manning was lower than it is now. Our squadron worked with everyone who made reasonable requests, which sometimes leads to flying those 2 R days a month, so one of your bros gets some time off work.

That's a no-work zone.