BrightNeptune

Care to make an argument instead of clutching pearls? Please tell me how your service, or mine, has defended the constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic. Please tell me how we have more freedoms now than when when we joined the military. While you're at it, make a case for all of the service members that were killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hellholes in the last 25 years. How did they die for the constitution? How are the millions of dead civilians in line with the constitution? How is going to war without declaring war in line with the constitution?

Please point to me the exact phrase in the Constitution that allows for the FBI to exist. There are millions of things that go against the oath we all swore. The oath is useless and Constitution means nothing. None of us actually defended the Constitution. We supported and continue to support our destroyers.

Those that write a letter to get passed over or decline continuation are not entitled to separation pay.

For any '14 people on their first board or '13 people facing their second after getting passed over: If you are at all interested in getting out I can share what I learned through my process of writing a letter to the board and cutting more than a year off my UPT ADSC by getting passed over a second time. I was hired by a legacy airline that asked zero questions about rank, timing, OPRs, additional duties, job titles, or any queep that only matters in the Air Force. If you want out early you can 100% do it by playing by their rules. PM for details.

Did you know that the year two pay at UPS for first officers is $206 per hour/~173k per year minimum? After ten years when you're a captain, you're pulling in $344 per hour/~$289k per year minimum. Heck, you don't even have to sign a ten year contract, live in Clovis, or deploy! Even a $75k per year bonus can't touch that.

I found a AT-802 manual that says the service ceiling is 12,500'. Did they add a pressurization system? What about icing protection? Can it go into IMC?

Nothing happened, nothing is going to happen, and she was never at any risk. She would not go if a deal had not been struck that ensures her safety while letting China save face.

Is the ceiling for that thing really 13,000'? Good thing we'll never have to go back into Afghanistan...or worry about MANPADS...

"It's about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all." - Joe Biden "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." - Some other guy

AFSOC doesn't even let dudes fly the PC-12, which is a single pilot plane, with only one pilot. Zero chance this happens.

People would roll over just as easily as they did last time. Med groups are still in masks and will be forever.

Imagine sitting in that thing for 8+ hour missions on a regular basis. How much storage does that thing have for piss bags? The best solution was turning the Dornier into a do-everything platform.

Holy god the new site is bad. One whole page just to show big ass buttons, a big ass picture of a dude sitting on his floor making arts and crafts, balance, and return YTD. I'd like to know how many tens of millions of dollars they paid to create this abomination.

Holy crap, 8 years? Just commission. I'd sure like to talk to anyone that signed up for that and find out why they did it.

I noticed that it didn't make the news anywhere. If there is nothing publicly available, I have nothing to add.

I'm surprised no one brought up that Laughlin fired another squadron commander a few weeks ago...

It's not about the pay. The Air Force is giving bonuses to people to get them to stay past 10. There are plenty of T-6 IPs that are bailing at 10 when they make $120k+/year. They would love to have a GS-8 fill that slot for half the pay. I've never seen a LT reserve IP. I'm pretty sure no UPT reserve squadron is hiring off the street. I've flown with civilian IPs at my MWS schoolhouse. They were good, but they were not off the street either. They had a ton of experience and were all retired AF pilots. They were also not GS. A civilian T-6 pilot that this program is targeting is going to get zero respect from the current IPs.

Do you know what all of those positions have in common? They don't fly and suck at executing the mission. The Air Force spent millions of dollars teaching them how to perform a combat mission. The Air Force did not spend millions of dollars to make them secretaries, which is what those positions are. Some of us refuse to play the game. I knew the Air Force was broken when they described the (old) EPR process to us at OTS. Any organization that supported that, or supports the current system is irreversibly broken. SOS only confirmed this. Remember the "Color of Money" game? I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I explained how F'd up that was. The Air Force does not exist to win wars. The Air Force exists to promote people that do busy work and tow the company line.

Doing the mission does not matter. Having thousands of combat hours and dozens of air medals does not matter. Risking your life does not matter. Killing the enemy does not matter. The Air Force does not promote pilots for doing pilot things. The Air Force promotes pilots for doing things that they could hire people for minimum wage to do.

lol I've never heard the Combat Platypus described like that before.

A regional will hire you without question if you choose not to continue after getting passed over the second time. A major will grab you after you show you're not useless. You're in a good position.

I understand that. Airlines also don't let 24-year-olds with <150 flight hours act as second in command with hundreds of people in the back. The Air Force will. The statement I made was aimed at those that think the current T-1 flight training device can replace all of the training that is currently being done in the T-1 airplane.

There is a huge difference between training people in a modern level D sim vs the trash that is the current T-1 flight training device. There is no T-1 simulator per the FAA definition of a simulator. UPT is simply going to graduate a different product for those that go non-fighter/bomber. FTUs will have to pick up the slack.

Why wouldn't the Air Force just "promote" the second-time look pilots to keep them in? Give them an August pin-on date. Their ADSC would expire only a few months after they pin on and they might even go on terminal before pinning on. What's one more dirtbag major compared to another year or so of having a pilot?

How does that promotion work? I heard mixed answers. Will he get in line with everyone from '13 and probably be at the bottom or would he be at the front of the list since it's the second look?