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“Clearance is as follows, Djibouti Djibouti!” “Line up and take off behind the A330”

What?

Good riddance, hopefully he takes his CMSAF with him. Now the question is who follows him?

Correct, Wilsbach’s standards push in ACC was well before Trump was even elected and 99% of people even heard of Hegseth.

Has anyone ever been able to pressure Trump? He’s done whatever he wants no matter what anyone says. I do think his DOJ will eventually release them and his “hoax” comments is his way to downplay them since they are clearly not this smoking gun that everyone expected.

I may be mistaken but I believe only 2 pilots were scheduled; calling into light the shady work rest cycles of some of these airlines.

I hear you, but I’ve supervised, rated, and commanded hundreds of enlisted of various AFSCs; while there are definitely some tards out there, most of them were solid hard working Americans. Some needed time to mature, some needed mentorship, but most just did their job and kept their nose down; in ranks inspection isn’t going to move the needle on the underlying issues with the junior enlisted.

Not just enlisted… we seemed to finally be moving in the right direction away from queep, chiefiness, sock colors, and reflective belt police..now we are headed back in that direction but now under the guise of readiness and GPC. Boot height, really? Also in ranks inspections are an utter waste of time.

Well sucks for this guy, for the first time in probably ever, none of the combatant commanders will be Army; CJCS is still Air Force, the Army continues to become less relevant than Air and Naval Forces especially looking at the IPC AOR. Heck, even in CENTCOM, Army’s main mission is protection, C-sUAS, and missile defense; most ops and strikes are accomplished from the carrier or the Air Force. Anyone who’s ever worked in a joint environment knows how frustrating and annoying the Army can be and I’m glad that’s starting to change.

Not saying our GOs weren’t a contributing factor in the mess that was GWOT (Afghanistan and Levant) but I would say most of the failures belong at the political level.

What do you mean back to!? We still have a large presence there and many of us get to deploy there every couple years

You can thank Maxine Waters. She’s 86 by the way.

I was dead set on getting out as a Captain. WIC was a huge goal for me and I went later in my career despite adding a year to my ADSC. Afterwords, serving as a patch and feeling like I was making an impact on the next generation was a turning point for me. I loved serving, leading, and having a sense of fulfillment. So I stayed…jury is out whether it was the right decision but I’m essentially locked in to retirement. I love flying, and while airlines were tempting, the job wasn’t for me. I’ll likely buy an airplane when I retire to scratch the itch. There is a lot that is wrong and frustrating with the Air Force; but focusing on what is right (the dudes in the squadron doing the mission) and honing in on that pushed me to stay and try to make it a little bit better.

It wouldn’t need SecDef energy if his predecessors hadn’t wasted time on it.

Let’s flip the script, how many man hours were spent building radical ideology such as CRT into curriculums at all levels of the military; and said books into the libraries to begin with? CRT and other communist ideology should have never had a place in the military to begin with. Like I said before, most actions occuring now might seem radical but that will be the case when you aggressively course correct back to normalcy.