matmacwc Posted August 19, 2012 Posted August 19, 2012 (edited) This was the latest UPT direct drop: 1 x B-1 / 1 x B-52 / 1 x C-5M / 7 x C-17 / 2 x C-130E/H / 3 x C-130J / 1 x KC-10 / 4 x KC-135 / 1 x E-3 / 1 x EC-130H / 1 x AC-130U / 1 x Do-328 / 1 x U-28 Is the U-28 a MWS or is this a sign the dude will be back to the RPA in a few years? Edited August 19, 2012 by matmacwc
nsplayr Posted August 19, 2012 Posted August 19, 2012 (edited) Is the U-28 a MWS or is this a sign the dude will be back to the RPA in a few years? I think it has been all along for pilots and has been for CSOs since 2006ish. Tell those guys not to worry, there's plenty of work to go around down here and a lot of dudes are staying on past the typical 3-4 year tour, especially if they want to stay. Edited August 19, 2012 by nsplayr
Craftsman Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 Can any of the frst two groups of released UPTers elaborate on the training back at their UPT bases? Whats the training like? Do they treat us like studs etc? Cheers.
Duck Posted August 28, 2012 Posted August 28, 2012 From what I have heard from one of my old friends who was recently paroled for good behavior, he is having a blast in T-1s. From every indication he has given there isn't the student/instructor hazing butt pain from upt. Probably for the last part the instructors realize what a raw deal you had and are doing their best to get you back in the air. FWIW.
egochecks Posted September 11, 2012 Posted September 11, 2012 Can any of the frst two groups of released UPTers elaborate on the training back at their UPT bases? Whats the training like? Do they treat us like studs etc? Cheers. It's been good. Bro level rather than UPTish (at least on the 38 side). Just need to stay on top of your syllabus and make things happen. 38's have ramped up which means BIT studs have ramped up as well and you'll be competing in the same pool for sorties. This has been my experience at CBM but I talked to a bro at Vance and he said his syllabus is moving a little more quickly. However, to the point of your question, it's bro level treatment all around.
nrodgsxr Posted October 27, 2012 Posted October 27, 2012 2x F-16 TX courses for the Spring. Much improvement from the doom and gloom of resent past. I slipped to the Summer VML. Locations sounded nice too.. Glad to hear guys are leaving but I just wonder who is going to man these damn caps.. It seems like every beta guy I talk to is planning on separating after only 1 drone assignment
goingkinetic Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Did anybody in the VML receive white jets or ALO? I'm beginning to have hope, unless it was 2 x TX and 10 x ALO.
Groundbounder Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 ?..............and an S ton of MQ-9s to Holloman. WTF?
goingkinetic Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 Were the Holloman guys AMC types? Or did it include 11F's as well?
Craftsman Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 A dude in my squadron got hit with an ALO, but another got his viper back. But heard through the rumor mill i.e. our patch that Gen. Hostage has said that he wants the Tami guys going back to their airframes. I'm still just waiting for the next UPT-D drop which I hope to be on. Here is to all the TX dudes
matmacwc Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I firmly believe the TAMI-21 dudes are F'd, especially the ones getting TX'd back to the jet, I support their excitement, but I know how big blue works. If I'm correct, <200 hrs qualified you for TAMI, therefore senior Captains to Major selects will now TX, go to squadrons and expect FLUG to IPUG? I think they might be deployment and/or OSS fodder. Their peer group that didn't get TAMI are going to be WIC dudes and at the least IPs. I hate to be a downer, and I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
Snuggie Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Below is the latest UPT-D drop for the 18 guys at Creech and 5 at Cannon. Just like previous UPT-D drops there are no locations associated with the aircraft. (1 x B-1 / 1 x B-52 / 7 x C-17 /2 x C-130E/H / 2 x C-130J / 2 x KC-10 / 4 x KC-135 / 1 x EC-130H / 1 x RC-135 / 1 x MC-130H / 1 x U-28)
Snuggie Posted November 30, 2012 Posted November 30, 2012 Another UPT-D drop came out a few days ago. C-130J x2/ C-17 x2/ U-28/ KC-10/ KC-135 Guess the drops are coming more frequently? I wasn't expecting another one until January.
Termy Posted December 20, 2012 Posted December 20, 2012 I was at the chamber (or whatever that newfangled system is) at Nellis last week and ran into two guys headed back to the Viper. Stoked for them.
ellsworb Posted December 21, 2012 Posted December 21, 2012 Back to the Hog in March. Thankful to have survived! You're my hero Porkchop.
Craftsman Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 With all the new budget constraints, has anybody heard what the affects are going to be on the UPT-D dudes that are waiting and praying that the AF keeps on their promise of putting us back in manned cockpits? I sure as hell can't get an answer from my leadership. Also, any dudes that have already gotten out, how is the training program/progression? What should we expect T-1/T-38 style as well as the FTU?
Snuggie Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 I asked my sq/cc this week and he hasn't heard much. What he has heard is as of now the timeline for follow on assignments is being slipped but not cancelled. He thinks the delay will be 3-6 months.
Hacker Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 With all the new budget constraints, has anybody heard what the affects are going to be on the UPT-D dudes that are waiting and praying that the AF keeps on their promise of putting us back in manned cockpits? I sure as hell can't get an answer from my leadership. Also, any dudes that have already gotten out, how is the training program/progression? What should we expect T-1/T-38 style as well as the FTU? For the T-38 program, at least, it is a relatively short requal -- about 50 days and 25 or so hours of flying, plus academics, sims, and the like. There are three tracks, depending on where guys are headed (A: fighters, B: bombers, C: everything else). The main difference between the three tracks is the amount of formation flying and low levels in the syllabus. There is a single non-Form 8 checkride at the end. I've seen less than a dozen guys go through the program at Vance over the past year, and none of them have had any significant issues getting back into a manned aircraft. So far as I've heard, guys in the pipeline aren't being held up due to budget shenanigans yet.
Craftsman Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 Newest UPT-D drop just came out. 4xB-52, 1xE-3, 2xEC-130, 3xKC-10, 5x KC-135, 7xC-130J I got Paroled with this drop!!!
guineapigfury Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Congrats! What did you get and where to?
Craftsman Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Congrats! What did you get and where to? I'll let you know in like a month. As per standard with these drops they show the list to the bros so they can match their ADP's to it, and give them a chance to recat if they want. If the planes aren't what people wanted.
Craftsman Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Just got assignments everyone pretty much got what they wanted. I got 135's to MacDill!
Craftsman Posted April 17, 2014 Posted April 17, 2014 Second to last UPT-D drop just dropped: 2 x B-1 / 2 x B-52 / 1 x E-3 / 1 x RC-135 / 1 x C-5M / 4 x C-17 / 2 x KC-10 / 2 x KC-135 / 3 x C-130J / 1 x AC-13W / 1 x MC-130J / 1 x U-28 / 1 x Do-328 Only one more drop after this. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
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