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I would have thought that more than 20% of desert queens might have been rejected by a dude at some point...traumatizing indeed. ######ing coward. If legitimate bad shit happens, put an end to it. If not, then STFU and do your job and DON'T hold illegitimate, out of context grudges for 17 years as a mediocre TSgt and spill your biased guts to the civilian sector.

Title = Student Pilot. The BEST you can do is get an AFAM with the title in it. If you haven't worked the job for more than a few months and you were shit hot, then I doubt you will get a medal. You can always draft one and ask for it, though. LOEs and getting bullets in your training report are great ideas too, so you can at least take care of yourself for these retarded O-3 PRFs. Official titles that show up on your SURF or something like that will most likely not happen (because your position is unofficial) and I have never seen it. But who knows, you may know the right people to make it happen. If you do get some sort of documentation, prepare to be a qweep pusher for your first operational desk job, haha. Enjoy!

Hahaha well it was the pre-roll call/commander's call portion, but yes, valid.

I agree. I am sure we have plenty of exec types on this board, and while it shouldn't fall only on them, they should take an interest. When I was a sq exec, I made sure that the new dudes' records got corrected and updated ASAP. When PRF season was around, we would have a little bit during roll call that highlighted someone's SURF and made fun of all the wrong/stupid shit on it in an attempt to get people to check their records and let us know of any errors. Retarded, maybe, but not getting promoted because of records errors is way worse.

Wrong dude. The PRF system is super broken and AFPC crunches numbers to see how many of each AFSC they want projected at X timeframe. So, if they are like, "Oh shit we are going to have waaaay too many 11M2X or 11M1X O-3s meeting the FY12 board and subsequently the O-4 board..." then they cut them. Unfortunately, 11M means C-5, C-17, C-130, KC-10, KC-135, and a few others that I doubt many Lts fly. They don't care what airframe/base they come from, they just need to shrink the general numbers. This is why some units get hit harder because usually a commander didn't do such a great job at sending quality paperwork. Also reason for some units of the same airframe being undermanned while others are overmanned. Same generally goes for a RIF. So, again, for dudes who only have training reports going to a board, missing a training report can totally ###### you over because there is a gap in your very short duty history. Instead of fixing the problem or digging deeper, they just put it in the DNP pile to make their job easier. Makes it even worse if there are very few easy cuts; people with UIFs. Oh, AND if promotions were completely equal across the board for line-officers of all types, then aircrew would be at an even bigger disadvantage because the board also has shoeclerks who won't give two shits about what your flght-based training report has to say about you as an officer. What does talk to shoeclerks is how nice and neat your records are and OPRs that don't have operations bullets which remind them they wouldn't have a job without you.

Seriously, if I get someone who even hints at doing anything pseudo air forcey like run around with a guideon on our off time, I may kill them, myself, or both! The only Air Force thing we should ever do after class is go the bar and exchange war stories. Is it too much to ask to have people in my flight who aren't ass-douches and have common sense? Don't answer that...

YGTBFSM! I can't believe I haven't heard about this bullshit happening on such a widespread scale. There is definitely a failure of leadership, but like some of you have identified, the paperwork is what is ######ing everyone. Typical rated dude has a few months casual before UPT/UNT, 13 months of humbling, and then a few more months of casual while the training report finalizes. I am sad, but not really shocked, to hear about training reports being lost in the system. I think the regs say 60 days to close out, but 3/5 of my training reports have taken 6-9 months each. If timing is wrong for you, that could totally screw you over; especially when you have no OPRs vs a shoeclerk with 3. Time for the rated officer to be overly jaded at an earlier age. Good luck fighting this and I hope you make some progress!

I think this needs to be seen before anyone goes to SOS: Apparently we had too many people with out enough to do in 1959... Serious question that made me come out of lurker status: wise or unwise to take graduate courses while at SOS? I've read the previous posts saying golf and 6 hour days, but I am looking for something a bit more recent. Also, how is the new 8 week course now that beta is over? I am one of the unlucky ones who got to do both ASBC and SOS-C before the extended SOS-R and let's just say I am super excited to repeat the best two weeks of ASBC again. I sure hope it is BT3.

Ugh, fail. It seems like every SNCO wants to be back at BMT. They truly cannot distinguish between training to be in the military and actually being in the military. Military appearance standards, bearing, etc are part of an important foundation, but that's the extent of such things. These items are essentially all a trainee has to worry about and are stressed during BMT so one can quickly adopt the culture/sense of urgency/SA/attention to detail to be carried through out their career. Following BMT, the lessons learned should be - "Fixing this jet in a timely, flawless manner was sort of like making my bed perfectly each day at BMT..." NOT "I need to make my bed perfectly everyday and if it takes time away from fixing this jet then too bad..." All of these SNCOs and support leadership have a hard-on for stupid buzzwords and took the lessons at BMT/OTS/wtfever too literally. People need to realize that creating/enforcing ridiculous rules are detrimental to the actual mission because it takes duty hours away from it, distracts/confuses younger troops from their core skill set, and it degrades morale. If you are the best at your job, you ensure everyone around you is the best at their job, have mastered multiple other skills/hobbies/languages/etc, developing a cure for cancer, and still have free time, then go ahead and make your bed with hospital corners, but don't expect me to. I am not rebelling against standards; I am rebelling against assholes who suck at their job and waste everyone's time by trying to make the real warriors look bad by minute technicalities, ie minor uniform infractions. Example: CMSGT: "Excuse me Captain, your flight suit sleeves should not be rolled up even if it is 120 degrees out here..." Capt: "Noted." Later that day... CMSGT: "Sir, there seems to be a bit of rebellion out here with sleeve rolling..." WG/CC: "I'll address it." Later... WG/CC: "So, I hear you have a problem with the uniform regulations..." Capt: "No sir!" WG/CC: "I don't know anything about you or that you routinely EQ, but I now know your name and it is on the shitlist...you should be more like Capt ReachAround who spent his time finding a way to polish green boots and consequently Q3'd." Capt: "FML." All I ask is that everyone do their job, do it well, and not do stupid things like tattoo their face or wear their uniform inside out. They might ask, "How can we can expect you to fly a good jet if you can't even wear the correct color socks?" Simply reply, "Easily and skillfully because I took the time to study and perfect my skills rather than worry about stupid shit that has zero impact on ANYTHING." Enough of this crazy talk, taking things out of context, and mistaking a mission accomplishment concern for rebellion.

They were a couple of months ago, but who knows if they will after these findings. They will probably put it on hold for a few months while squalene becomes "FDA Approved". I hope they do test it and it is OK, otherwise I will just add it to my list of hazardous things unnecessarily exposed to while serving the military.

Yeah it was. Deleted because it was 99.69% copied from a book by Drew Carey.

A plus indeed.

So sick of this shit. All of these little rules should be reserved as extra critiques for those who completely suck at their job as a last, "gotcha bitch!" I'm so tired of all of these non-CAF people with their infinite time not helping "customers" enforcing rules that don't matter to make them feel like they are actually playing military. I wish we could point fingers only at non-ops though. A few years ago at the Deid we had a first sergeant who was given free reign by the expeditionary sq/cc. Most of the ACs got together to talk to the CC about how this shirt was disrespectfully correcting officers in public about stupid things, like wearing sunglasses in the caddy. The CC said he didn't want to hear about it and to consider whatever the shirt says as his (the CC's) own word. If we didn't the shirt would tell him and take his side. FAIL! Perfect example of how not to lead, especially downrange.

Yes. I sat in on a brief the other day where the WG/CCC said that "good leadership is being a good example to follow...that starts with having your sleeves rolled down. If they aren't, A1C Snuffy will publicly correct you." This was in front of the WG/CC, who actually allowed that shit to be said. I must be ######ing crazy to think that issues like flying ops and deployments should be key topics at a CC call.

Libya has a black sand desert....

Yeah man, I always get questioned about my boots on blues Monday. "Why are you wearing cowboy boots...I don't think those are legal..." I tell them to look it up in the reg, it has been there for as long as I know. 100X more comfortable, durable and badass.

I don't think Friday shirts will go away, unless you have have a wingking who hates aircrew. As far as the zipper thing, I think lining it with the nametag gives room for more play...especially when you have the velcro the patches are placed on moved down a few inches.

Harriers.

Yup, I know a dude who was in that position and when AFPC saw that they didn't have enough bodies to fill slots, they took away his already lined up #1 assignment and sent him on a 365 command to the desert. Pretty nice way of the AF saying "thanks for serving" during the then "Year of the Military Family," which was an entirely separate joke of a campaign filled with empty catch phrases and programs.

"As a direct result of ASBC, today's officer corps now collectively embraces the warrior ethos, reflects an expeditionary mindset, better comprehends 'the family business' and is more adept at articulating what our Air Force brings to the fight." Retarded. At ASBC I learned about shoes and that the best way to utilize a failure of an officer is to make them babysit LTs. HOSS nailed it. It is ridiculous that we have to accomplish everything that is worthless twice; only to learn that it is twice as worthless the second time around. What does the CSAF preach? Efficiency. Re-doing time wasting queep over and over again is the exact opposite of efficient. I wish I could have avoided ASBC and now regret doing SOS-C.

I'm no flight doc, but you should be fine given you can close your mouth, wear a flight mask, and they do not impede your speech. I know several people who have been FC1 approved with braces. You could always call them and ask if you are uncertain.

That's the theory. But then you get into the writing styles and leadership policies on strats. Say Q3 and Q1 dudes are decent enough people outside of the jet, but not good enough to warrant an OPR strat (CC says only top 15% will get a number) or a DP and not bad enough to get a DNP. They do the same deployments and have similar jobs in the squadron. On paper, they can re-use everyone elses' uber exaggerated bullets on how much money they save the AF, how they make everything more efficient by 110%, and how they were handpicked (voluntold) to lead some extracurricular. No differentiating pushes, exaggerated fluff to make mediocrity sound phenomenal, and maybe a too lenient CC equates to the two people looking nearly identical. The board then has only one discernible difference, a filled square. Maybe I am crazy, but I always give more credibility to a person who is good at their job over someone who pretends to be and has a worthless degree. Edit: I agree the problem should take care of itself, eventually...just not at the O-4/O-5 level.

Add: Form 8s need to meet promotion boards so douchers who are incompetent in the jet stop getting promoted, ultimately making decisions for the flying community. I know OPRs should cover all leadership and potential leadership qualities, but your performance in your actual, no shit job (NOT SELO, ADO, BS with inflated numbers) can be quantified on a check ride and tell their own story about one's personal performance. I have personally seen (and I am sure many can relate) Mr. Repeat Q3 who no one wants to fly with, yet has all squares filled get promoted over a very good, never worse than Q1 IP who didn't get the Masters.

Remember, if you drop RC-135s at UPT you still have to drop 45th at KOFF. If you want small motors, good luck...I don't think those are given to new guys anymore.

I know there are some planners in intel who use a standalone falconview, seemed appropriate for sampling purposes.