What's wrong with the Air Force?

[brabus]

4 hours ago, CharlieHotel47 said:

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Remind that dipshit this is the guard - we don’t subscribe to dumbassery like the AD. Go do something productive and mission enhancing sergeant.  

[08Dawg]

Doesn’t a shirt have more important things to worry about, like taking care of Airmen?

”Roger” or “noted” are appropriate responses to any bullshit from someone like that. 

[dream big]

36 minutes ago, 08Dawg said:

Doesn’t a shirt have more important things to worry about, like taking care of Airmen?

”Roger” or “noted” are appropriate responses to any bullshit from someone like that. 

When Shirts and Chiefs are on about uniform standards, my assumption is that everything else in the unit including the morale and welfare of the troops is running swimmingly. If that’s not the case, those Shirts and Chiefs should lean forward and choke themselves. 

[HossHarris]

Remember, they’re enlisted and you’re an officer. 
 

every time they speak to you, task them with some trivial bullshit. Bring me the results of the last dorm inspection? How many CE Tickets are still open on the ops building? How about the dorms?  I think the track is a few meters short, go measure it. Get me the names of every crew chief that grew up in Texas.  The more tedious and vaguely personnel related the better. 
 

they’ll leave you the fuck alone when they realize every interaction comes with homework. 

[ViperMan]

9 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

Doesn’t a shirt have more important things to worry about, like taking care of Airmen?

”Roger” or “noted” are appropriate responses to any bullshit from someone like that. 

I prefer something more along these lines.

 

[08Dawg]

Which brings me to another “wrong with the AF” point… we’ve got this ingrained cultural problem where a certain sect of SNCOs feel empowered to and expect that they can just run over captains, majors, and even lieutenant colonels.  I call it “excessive professional deference”. Sure, you’ve been in longer and I respect your technical competence, but the last time I checked, an O-3 or O-4 still outranks an E-7, 8, or 9. Don’t like it?  Tough shit, MSgt…go to OTS and get a commission. 

[SurelySerious]

Which brings me to another “wrong with the AF” point… we’ve got this ingrained cultural problem where a certain sect of SNCOs feel empowered to and expect that they can just run over captains, majors, and even lieutenant colonels.  I call it “excessive professional deference”. Sure, you’ve been in longer and I respect your technical competence, but the last time I checked, an O-3 or O-4 still outranks an E-7, 8, or 9. Don’t like it?  Tough shit, MSgt…go to OTS and get a commission. 

And if we’re really honest sometimes it’s technical and strategic incompetence, but I digress. True story, you want the authority and responsibility then you go commission.

[Sua Sponte]

17 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

Which brings me to another “wrong with the AF” point… we’ve got this ingrained cultural problem where a certain sect of SNCOs feel empowered to and expect that they can just run over captains, majors, and even lieutenant colonels.  I call it “excessive professional deference”. Sure, you’ve been in longer and I respect your technical competence, but the last time I checked, an O-3 or O-4 still outranks an E-7, 8, or 9. Don’t like it?  Tough shit, MSgt…go to OTS and get a commission. 

Blame the commanders that enable this behavior.

[SocialD]

25 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Blame the commanders that enable this behavior.

 

I blame the CC's, but I also blame officers who allow these types of acts to go unchecked.  You're an officer, don't be afraid to act like it.  Just don't be a dick and be right.  On the spot correction are powerful and can quickly straighten up any culture of lax good order/discipline.  In 22 years of enlisted and officer service, outside of some punishment I had to hand out as a CC, I can only remember two situation that rose to the level of "get in this office and shut the door," type corrections.  Both situations were as a Captain and Major, and I never heard a thing about them again, and more importantly, they worked.