Gen Welsh - USAF Chief of Staff

[Duck]

As a dude who has been Guard and AD. I can tell you that complaining is part of life. You are never going to be 100% happy with how any organization, big or small, is run. Having said that, AD has some serious issues. Manning, deployments, assignments, retention, toxic leaders, scandals, just to name a few. The Guard has its problems too, however it was always on a micro level and much easier to handle, especially for those that were part timers and could just walk out the door middle finger held high and come back a month later as if nothing had happened.

As far the Reserves, I put their QOL between AD and the Guard, as I have heard of some shady stuff going on there lately like 365 deployments and crap like that. This would never fly with the Guard.

[di1630]

I'm curious other peoples' letdowns with Welsh.

I realize as a former hog guy, my main issue is the fact that on his watch AF brass has proven themselves as liars or tactically inept idiots when it comes to discussing CAS and the A-10 v F-35 debate and that's a big one because hearing his "statistical misrepresentations" to put it nicely and or ineptness lost my trust.

But what other big things for you dissenters?

Or positive views.

[Day Man]

pros: undid blues monday

cons: *

[BADFNZ]

I think the problem with Welsh is he didn't live up to the hype.  Once he won the nomination, people were quick to exude his greatness from previous experiences working directly for him, in his MAJCOM, Wing, etc.  Out of the gate, he killed Blues Mondays, which only set the bar even higher for him for the rest of his regime.  Then he kind of held the status quo for the rest of his term, and didn't do anything earth-shattering, so everyone was left wanting more.  We thought he was going to be this huge breath of fresh air, but it turns out that maybe once you become CSAF, the political weight is too much to make any huge change.  Compound that with the fact that a lot of negative shit went down AF-wide under his watch (Mollygate at Laughlin, Little Rock, F-35 procurement, etc) and today is the result.  It's a bit depressing because I feel this was the one chance we had to see a difference, and if Welsh can't do it, maybe it's not possible.

[ned1]

My friends, it's time to face the facts: this is an impossibly broken system that is only being propped up on the backs of the downtrodden, who are crushed beneath the weight of this disgustingly corrupt government tool of imperialism. And praying for some kind of ubermensch to come and change the whole system is nothing but a fools hope. We can see this with welsh already.

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[HuggyU2]

2 hours ago, ned1 said:

And praying for some kind of ubermensch to come ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch

[60 driver]

On January 16, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Bender said:

You do what you do when you put on your uniform for the Air Force? This what was just implied and to use Champ's words, "absolutely the wrong answer." This might be part of our collective problem right there. You should be doing it for your family and your family's families, as distinctly and directly as it could possibly be. If you are doing it for the Air Force itself, it's just a job and you should make your snappy quips to the management at Delta or Costco. You've lost your way in serving your country and need to recage or separate.

To do your best to care for families and bring them with us out the other side is "absolutely the wrong answer"? You think we should, specifically as a service to our country put ourselves (by proxy our families) first? Interesting prism...you can put your family first by going to work at Costco. We need to do better, I absolutely agree, but if "trying our best" is "absolutely the wrong answer" (particularly when that's all you have to offer) it as hollow as the guide we're currently possessed with.

It's not an all or nothing, or a "you're all in" (a statement I loathe by the way). However, if you are going to go out of your way to avoid hardship while others bear it...get the out of the way. If you think what you do isn't important to the welfare of the people and principles you thought you protected when you signed up all the years ago...get the out of the way.

I think your family is important. I also think this work we do is important. If you leave it up to Big Blue to take care of your family, you're a tard. Make the choices you need to make, if it's too much for you, step aside and let someone else with more flexibility step in to help. There is a massive gray area here when almost everyone is threading the line of maintaining the Homefront while executing the down range mission...it's on you to work it out, all you should ask of someone else is their honest best to balance things.

There is and will never be any doubt who one would chose if you had to choose one or the other...if there was, you should probably file for divorce (Oklahoma is a good place for that I hear).

Give me a ing break, Champ. Sometimes you're such a tool.

You know I know you're not, but sometimes...

Bendy

 

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