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Those slides are cool and all but I missed the part where it addresses retention. Can you imagine being the poor SOB Maj type stuck on the staff having to deal with this?

Heck that’s what our Wing King did (let’s have everyone complete the PRF process for “practice.”)

His FLUG will get delayed because he was voluntold to do honor guard for six months (like our loadmasters...)

This wouldn’t be a bad idea, if said individuals were former military pilots. There would be several advantages, but the key one would be that they could focus on instruction and not non-flying queep. Now, this is all contingent upon getting many volunteers, which is highly skeptical considering locales and opportunity cost of airline pay.

...reward your war fighters, separate rated promotion board, FEFs go into OPRs, primary job bullets only in award packages (no fucking “spouse of the year” 31 line award packages that some poor patch that’s an exec has to edit.).. Bare essential additional duties, those that aren’t absorbed by civilians/CSSs; green dot/suicide prevention/etc. is a one time requirement in OTS, the academy, ROTC- (for your entire career.) <Those are some ways to retain talent.

Maybe they are putting all these “sure to fail ideas” out there as bait for stop loss?

Nailed it, some of the snowflakes on JQP’s article on this matter stand to benefit by reading what you just said.

Some people value things more than a pension or money. To each their own.

Don’t go C-17s, very difficult finding the right runway and the gear handle. Better?

He said that it sucks, there is nothing manly or unmanly about acknowledging that it sucks. Now if you act like a baby and cry about it, sure.

It used to be, then the PC culture took over the Academy.

Shack! Also, it’s a combination of these things that’s driving people out. 0-6 walked into our deployed squadron today and brought the mustache hammer. My buddy insists that at least 3 people made the decision to punch after that (hint: it’s not about moustaches, it’s the fact that you as an 0-6 seem to care more about that than combat missions.)

Horrible,horrible idea. This isn’t to discount civilian training but the fundemental military aviation skills garnered in phase 2 is critical to basic airmenship in a dynamic environment. This applies whether you’re flying low levels in hercs or orbits in an AWACS. These kinds of initiatives are going to get people killed; we don’t have the luxury of taking shortcuts in this business. Just my 2 cents..

Would you expect anything less from the morons on the staff? If we were a civilian company we would have been bankrupt a decade ago.

God I can’t believe this is a serious idea. As it is, I’ve been flabbergasted with some of the products coming out of UPT lately..HS grad to F-35 wingman in a year? YGTBFSM! I am legitimately concerned about our lethality as an Air Force in modern conflicts given all the other issues. How many mishaps have we had in the last few years where the pilot’s basic proficiency was a factor? I’m tired of losing bros because the Air Force is inept at training and equipping it’s pilots properly. Also, isn’t the whole pilot shortage issue on the retention side? I understand there is also a bottle neck on the production side/B-course leading into fighter FTUs but what is all this talk really going to solve?

Uh huh, all the way until they give big blue the middle finger and laugh on their way to the bank at Delta/Southwest or any other private sector job. Treat your employees like pawns long enough and they’ll walk. You are right about the politics of Okinawa though, but the US military loses everything here. The government of Japan knows the military leadership will bow over backwards to appease them as indicated time and time again while shitting on their own. It’s only a matter of time before that can be exploited.

Exactly. I spent 5 years there and love the Japanese people; but was always flabbergasted at how much we bent over backwards, many times at the cost of combat effectiveness, to “appease” the Japanese. I mean, Yokota’s biggest priority every year was the stupid static display festival. You want to know how many man hours that consumed?? In no way I am I implying that we shouldn’t be good ambassadors and respect the Japanese but at the end of the day, they lost the war they started and they would be target practice if it weren’t for American presence there.

In before JQP gets to it: the entire US military in Japan is now banned from purchasing or consuming alcohol on or off base UFN after a DUI accident in Okinawa. This even extends to people’s residences (I would love for these cowardly “leaders” to enforce this one.) EDIT: Here is a link to an article. https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/japan-based-servicemembers-slapped-with-alcohol-ban-after-fatal-crash-on-okinawa-1.498605

Toss it. Stick to the AIM. Don’t want us to takeoff using see-and-avoid? Publish an FCIF. Also, if you are going to have so many pubs, then update them. 202 updates (and changes significantly) every 2 years while our subordinate pub, the 11-2xv3, is from 2009.

We haven’t heard from any A-320, 737, 757, 767, 777 guys on here at all...some input on your “mission” and QOL would be appreciated!

Because as much as some leadership preach about 360 degree feedback, none of it exists in the USAF. You are promoted purely on how well your OPRs and PRFs are written in the eyes of those above you who were successful in that same process. Heck, even with the 100% to Major our Wing King still made everyone go through the PRF process; that’s how much they value paperwork. So, in essence, you can be a class A D-bag and still get promoted really far.

Just got mine in Texas. I try to carry everywhere- yet there are many places where it is not allowed despite my county’s “open carry” policy. Of course, these very places are crowded/vulnerable where a mass shooting would likely occur (a church for example.) Witnesses are saying the shooter was ultimately stopped by a citizen with a rifle. Still trying to find whether that is true.

I had a similar situation at an oversees location trying to PCS in a few days while MPF was refusing to do my final out (I would have been current through a 4 month TDY enroute plus ~20 days after RNLTD.) I pleaded and convinced them I would do my PT test at my TDY location. They agreed to sign the paperwork and I was on my way. When I got to the TDY location I conveniently forgot about the PT test and just took it at my new base. No questions asked.

There is no question we would destroy NK, but South Korea would be decimated (at least everything north of Osan) when the North Koreans push south of the DMZ

But will anyone have the balls to say that your most experienced WO/EP late Capt/junior Maj pilots should not be serving exec sentences when they are most valuable in the squadron teaching the young guys? A 2LT from MPF could function as the exec (and do a much better job..)