Tulsa

That incident was a tough read with a colossal failure on both parties involved. First of all, when line 8 doesn't make sense, that should be a trigger that SA is in the street. Secondly not knowing the capabilities of your equipment on both sides of the equation is unbelievable. I don't know what is worse, you think IR strobes are visible in the TGP or a B-1 is able to see strobes with their NVGs in a ~5NM wheel. I've worked a lot of CAS and haven't had a JTAC think I could see his IR strobe in a TGP. However, I have called out a B-1 saying they saw my sparkle when I wasn't sparkling. My last question is, was the ATO so saturated that we couldn't match a better CAS asset to the mission?

Aloha Snackbar!

Champ, we're talking prison rape type questions. As in, has anyone from work put their hoo-hah in any of your orifices in the last 12 months. That was about halfway through, up to that point it was the standard hostile work environment questions ( i.e. sexual jokes, gay jokes, etc). All of us in the flight room definitely got a good laugh out of it, but I was puzzled as to what the angle was for the survey. Surely, someone else got selected or do I have some sort of special mark in my records.

Speaking of recurring witch hunts, has anyone on here been selected for the latest survey from Rand? They put a disclaimer in there saying some questions may be explicit, but it got real ugly in a hurry about halfway through it. I couldn't figure out if the USAF is trying to get data to show Congress we don't have a problem or trying to see how pervasive the perceived problem may be. Thoughts?

I used to think she was blinking in morse code or something, but alas she just has an overall horrible tv image. Her team has softened it up some by going away from the slick rick, soul-glo curls of the previous election. However, her epileptic blink rate almost looks like she is an RCH away from an aneurysm.

i'll say it again, aim point air speed. Or whatever crosscheck you airframe requires.

Nav entry: dd mmm yyyy, didn't fly the plane again.

STFU nav.

INSUBORDINATION. Direct verbal order from a superior commander, unless it is illegal, follow it.

My two! flankers are armed to the teeth! them and these ing piss ants to themselves, like we did with the Georgia conflict.

They crammed about 69 of us into the 357th and about 47 into the reserve squadron. So we're getting our one sortie a week or so until the next VML thins the herd out a bit. Lucky to still be flying, but moseying out to Randolph in a few weeks to crush students in the 435th. Say what you will about IFF, but it is a blessing to be in a flying gig and one hell of a sunset tour before doing a touch and go at 20 years.

I think there was a bake sale and we lost? Kidding for you historian nerds out there.

Tune, Identify, and Monitor (by whatever means necessary).

Our Squadron got inactivated today, how was your day? Tulsa

Cave_Pilot, I'm sorry, that is a horrible environment to work in. There should be a testing mechanism like I described above, especially when you don't execute your tasking on a day to day basis. 85% pass rate for your annual or Stan/Eval requirement, whatever you call it, but the ability to learn from your mistakes. Do you guys brief, execute, and debrief your rotations, without fear of being turned in? From what I've read a more open environment may help in keeping crews focused on the mission they are tasked to do.

You all follow checklists, right? Your decisions are verified by standard coded procedures, right? In the aviation world we test on at least two basic concepts. Our closed book tests evaluate information that should be able to be recalled immediately, ala in the cockpit. We have public MQFs to study for those. Our open book tests evaluate information that is good to know to perform your job, but not time critical hence open book to find the answer. Pardon my apparent naiveté, but how do these logic rubik cube tests prepare you to do the job? If our aviation exam program has worked well, why don't other operational fields follow suit?

As an A-10 guy, you all don't answer the question, where is the money?

First round of watches are complete and should be making it out to all who purchased one. Attached is the stainless on the vintage leather band. Attack!

No idea, but I'm sure there are two states that could drum up some test groups.

Life is a contact sport, it takes SA to play. If people don't know when or how to choose what is or is not out of line, then educate them. This doesn't mean that we need a list, like the commandments from down on high to micromanage each and every aspect. Leaders should educate and allow their subordinates to make decisions on their own with a basic commander's intent/direction specified. This should be the main reason we have people doing this job, if it was black and white, robots would do it.

So if I'm reading these tea leaves correctly, 11F's from the '97 year group are not eligible for voluntary force management programs from the chart posted earlier due to being in undermanned AFSCs. However, Majors from the '97 year group are eligible to be RIF'ed. Has anyone seen any other information that those undermanned AFSCs will be opened up for the RIF board? It doesn't make sense that you can't use a voluntary force management program, TERA, VSP, etc, but can be RIF'd (also after being selectively continued a year and a half ago). I know I just answered my own question there, but c'mon man. If this is true, this is like the early '90's where Big Blue RIF'd folks that had previously been selectively continued. Oh well, Merry Christmas!

Did he ever get any help for his unstable condition?

Nsplayer is our resident liberal retard, just ask him if he has seen his baseball please.

USMC Bubbas "ROAR, F you guys, we're the Marine Corps and the basis of the MEU is to be able to do everything by ourselves, we don't need your stinking help. We are the Marine Corps. ROAR" You still can't tell me why you need it. Your service came up with a requirement that it can't justify. It isn't 1944, we aren't island hopping around the Pacific with my short boats and POS harriers.

Why are we pining on this? I'm not talking about the breakdown in everyone's Safety shops. But, Couldn't fly instruments or understand the automation presented. Or totally disregard the fact they couldn't recognize the stall or apply stall recovery mechanics. Yet, we harp on the fact that the info hasn't been disseminated. Telling everyone that you should fly instruments or apply stall recovery procedures doesn't sound like a ground breaking or earth shattering issue.