What's wrong with the Air Force?

[xaarman]

8 hours ago, dream big said:

Is it though? Supt is a sunset position but almost every commandant has gone on, both Clark and Moga were commandant and then went on to be 3rd AF/CC. 

Ugh. Well best wishes to everyone who is forced to work under an OCD work-a-holic who drinks more blue kool aid than is healthy. Come to think of it, perfect slot for the USAFA.

Edited August 29 by xaarman

[ClearedHot]

[nsplayr]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-air-force-academy-cadet-avery-koonce-death/story?id=113468548
 

Terrible news at the AFA, RIP to the cadet.

Is it bad that my first thought was, “Please god let this finally end Fat Tony’s miserable career…” ?

Edited September 7 by nsplayr

[Sua Sponte]

AMC/CC retired. Maybe MX can paint tail flashes and tail numbers on the tail again. 

[dream big]

12 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:

AMC/CC retired. Maybe MX can paint tail flashes and tail numbers on the tail again. 

One of the best leaders in the Air Force and that’s what comes to mind? Concealing tail flashes completely makes sense when you consider how good our adversaries are in building PoL for us. 

Edited September 7 by dream big

[cragspider]

23 hours ago, dream big said:

One of the best leaders in the Air Force and that’s what comes to mind? Concealing tail flashes completely makes sense when you consider how good our adversaries are in building PoL for us. 

Doesn’t matter when you can find any aircraft that’s flying in  civilian radar coverage.  Just need the hex id for it. Technology has become a opsec problem now. 

[Biff_T]

On 9/7/2024 at 6:31 AM, dream big said:

One of the best leaders in the Air Force and that’s what comes to mind? Concealing tail flashes completely makes sense when you consider how good our adversaries are in building PoL for us. 

Tail flashes don't make heavies look any cooler....lol.   that was just a joke heavy drivers. 😳 

[Sua Sponte]

On 9/7/2024 at 6:31 AM, dream big said:

One of the best leaders in the Air Force and that’s what comes to mind? Concealing tail flashes completely makes sense when you consider how good our adversaries are in building PoL for us. 

One of the best leaders because he's your boy from your community? You're right, China doesn't have ADS-B or anything.

[dream big]

21 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:

One of the best leaders because he's your boy from your community? You're right, China doesn't have ADS-B or anything.

Ha, don’t take my word for it, ask anyone in AMC.
 

For the tail flashes, it’s more for when we are conducting routine ops at various locations oversees, no need for those taking pictures outside the fence to know which unit and base these planes come from. It’s not a straights of Taiwan tactic. 
 

 

[ClearedHot]

Open revolt form the ACC maintainers...they post some funny Shit.

 

[ClearedHot]

EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks

The Air Force tried to dodge the first FOIA request so the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA) sued them...suddenly a pile (hundreds) of documents fell out of the sky.  The new approach is to cull the white guys...they are not even trying to hide the intent.  Merit and national Security be damned, the progressive agenda must rule everything we do.

Austin should have been fired when he went MIA...CQ is the exact same douche canoe he was as the Commandant of the Weapons School.  Our Air Force is broken...we have psychopaths like CQ and Slife at the top, Cat5 running the zoo and a SECDEF and CSAF more focused on racial quotas than lethality and combat capability. 

 

[Clark Griswold]

4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks

The Air Force tried to dodge the first FOIA request so the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA) sued them...suddenly a pile (hundreds) of documents fell out of the sky.  The new approach is to cull the white guys...they are not even trying to hide the intent.  Merit and national Security be damned, the progressive agenda must rule everything we do.

Austin should have been fired when he went MIA...CQ is the exact same douche canoe he was as the Commandant of the Weapons School.  Our Air Force is broken...we have psychopaths like CQ and Slife at the top, Cat5 running the zoo and a SECDEF and CSAF more focused on racial quotas than lethality and combat capability. 

 

IDK, maybe this guy has a point…

https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Abolishing-Studies-Conflict-Diplomacy/dp/0813165571

But seriously WTF?

[Boomer6]

This fits here,watch until the end:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAGg9QWtcDR/?igsh=YWV3a3JreW1mbnh4

[Clark Griswold]

Being gone a few months you start to get perspective… probably in a few years my thoughts will clarify further but in a simple sense the AF is too cerebral.
Too much brains not enough balls, too much studying not enough sports, too much nerdiness not enough jock and too many avenues for rank, attracts and incentivizes douchebaggery. There’ll be no pull back in this from the AF unless the other services culled their shoe clerk herds and unnecessary offices in like kind so that the AF wouldn’t be at a disadvantage in the DoD relatively as an institution at the Joint level.


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[HeloDude]

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks

The Air Force tried to dodge the first FOIA request so the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA) sued them...suddenly a pile (hundreds) of documents fell out of the sky.  The new approach is to cull the white guys...they are not even trying to hide the intent.  Merit and national Security be damned, the progressive agenda must rule everything we do.

Austin should have been fired when he went MIA...CQ is the exact same douche canoe he was as the Commandant of the Weapons School.  Our Air Force is broken...we have psychopaths like CQ and Slife at the top, Cat5 running the zoo and a SECDEF and CSAF more focused on racial quotas than lethality and combat capability. 

 

It’s tough to get upset when you’re not surprised.  It was obvious over the last several years that this crap was/is going on.  Since the “leaders” don’t care about our military, then it’s tough for everyone else to care.  Sucks to be those who are still serving, but they have a choice, just as we all did.

[xaarman]

Probably the wrong thread to ask, but what ever happened to the promises made to AFPAK Hands volunteers/voluntolds?

[brabus]

Racial milestones? Copy, AF leadership are a bunch of racist fucks. 

[Chicken]

All of these people claiming diversity...anywhere...are full of absolute sheet.  How many of them are going to demand a black gay female doctor perform their next surgery in the name of diversity.  Absolute horseshit.

[DirkDiggler]

12 hours ago, xaarman said:

Probably the wrong thread to ask, but what ever happened to the promises made to AFPAK Hands volunteers/voluntolds?

I think the promises made to take care of them were upheld for the most part, at least for the people I know that were involved with the program.

  I knew of an NSAV guy that didn’t command who made O-6 and an intel guy who was offered SDE and O-6 (he ended up retiring rather than take it).  There’s also a current sitting MC-J Sq/CC who was an AFPAK hand.  I haven’t heard of any Hands getting fucked over, though I wouldn’t doubt that it’s happened.

[Majestik Møøse]

The Air Force keeps pushing the public perception that it won’t be happy until the President is pinning Medals of Honor on transgender RPA pilot influencers. If that’s not the Air Force’s core focus, it’s doing a bad job of showing it.

[Swizzle]

12 hours ago, xaarman said:

Probably the wrong thread to ask, but what ever happened to the promises made to AFPAK Hands volunteers/voluntolds?

Some upheld, most not via secondhand knowledge, save firsthand experience below. 

In my neck-of-the-woods, I kept one program promise true for one my AFPAK troops, the only thing in my authority at the time.

[brabus]

3 hours ago, DirkDiggler said:

  I knew of an NSAV guy that didn’t command who made O-6 and an intel guy who was offered SDE and O-6 (he ended up retiring rather than take it).  There’s also a current sitting MC-J Sq/CC who was an AFPAK hand.

Never understood AFPAK volunteers. Go do years of your life in a massive shit hole for a war that ended in failure (we all knew it would), all so you can be “guaranteed” a life-sucking job of command, complete waste of time school, and O-6 in this disaster of an organization. It’s like these people love non-stop kicks in the junk.

[DirkDiggler]

1 hour ago, brabus said:

Never understood AFPAK volunteers. Go do years of your life in a massive shit hole for a war that ended in failure (we all knew it would), all so you can be “guaranteed” a life-sucking job of command, complete waste of time school, and O-6 in this disaster of an organization. It’s like these people love non-stop kicks in the junk.

Different strokes bro.  I would never have personally volunteered for that program but some did.

  FWIW, I have lots of friends who found their Sq/CC time to be a highlight of their career.  Sure it’s a shitload of work, but if you don’t lead scared and truly give a shit about your people over your career you can accomplish a lot.  I also know a lot of guys that really enjoyed SDE.  Maybe not AWC, but NPS, NWC, Eisenhower, NVWC etc are in good locations and some (like NPS) give you a legitimate higher education.

  I also personally was never interested in O-6 but I don’t judge people that are.  We need good dudes/dudettes doing that shit.

  I was very very lucky in my career to, for the most part, have had very good Sq and Grp leadership.  Towards the end the O-6 level leadership was starting to become uneven.  Some of the people that were getting pushed at the O-4/5 level I didn’t find impressive either but some were genuinely great.  I just retired so it’s not my problem anymore but I’m hopeful that the simple pendulum will swing back to the center.  CAT 5 getting shitcanned in my command was at least a start.

[brabus]

No judgement, I just have never understood the thought process of volunteer for a shit deal because it’ll “guarantee” you something good on the back side.

[Biff_T]

On 9/20/2024 at 6:19 PM, brabus said:

....volunteer for a shit deal because it’ll “guarantee” you something good on the back side.

Just take that sweet deployment or assignment.  Trust me, I won't you screw you.   

How many dudes had that happen to them? More gents than just P Diddy got fucked in the backside.  At least P Diddy liked it.  

Edited September 22 by Biff_T
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