What's wrong with the Air Force?

[arg]

On 3/18/2025 at 10:29 PM, General Chang said:

I’m still here.  Sigh.

Might as well spill it. 
How did you come up with Chang? He’s funny.

Edited March 20 by arg

[BashiChuni]

21 hours ago, General Chang said:

I’m still here.  Sigh.

i am glad you are sir!

[Majestik Møøse]

69% of this forum is people talking to themselves on different accounts.

[DirkDiggler]

Anyone know if this is legit?

[ClearedHot]

It's legit.

Hey acting SECAF, tell me your were a douche bag missileer who never deployed and never felt the impact on families without telling me.

[Sua Sponte]

I'm trying to figure out how giving a Friday or Monday off in conjunction with a three-day holiday weekend does not "support executing the mission with excellence?"

[dream big]

To be fair there is nothing stopping MAJCOMs and subordinate units from establishing family days. I guess sucks for you if you’re in ACC with Wilsbach.

[ClearedHot]

Instead of giving heavy deployers more time with their families I think ACC should use that day for full Class A open ranks inspections...with demerits. 

[StrikeOut312]

If you're active duty, you are essentially on retainer. If nothing is going on at the squadron, don't be there. If you're a supervisor and your folks aren't busy, send them home. Depending on the organization/mission, that mentality can be more/less tricky to implement...but in my life AD life flying the tanker, there were plenty of times I was called or my bros got called last minute to go into crew rest. Going home when the squadron is slow means you're making up for the time when you're gone short notice for an indefinite amount of time.

Acting SECAF is either a clown or a puppet directed by clowns. Bad policy put out at a bad time.

[General Chang]

On 3/19/2025 at 11:29 AM, arg said:

Might as well spill it. 
How did you come up with Chang? He’s funny.

Greatest Star Trek villain in history (with all due respect to Ricardo Montalban’s Khan Noonien Singh, of course).

[M2]

On 1/29/2025 at 4:44 PM, M2 said:

God bless the dirty heathens of the US Army, nothing says "I don't give a shit about anything!" than dropping cases of MREs at 100' AGL!! 

Again, God bless the dirty heathens of the US Army!  When it comes to morale, they simply don't give a shit!

Army to Recode 20,000 Parachutist Jobs in Major Airborne Restructuring

BLUF: In an attempt to "improve readiness," the Army is recoding nearly 20,000 paid parachutist positions that, although remaining as "airborne billets," the affected soldiers will no longer be required to maintain jump status or receive jump pay.

Of course, the Air Force is being blamed.  "Limited aircraft availability, especially C-17s and C-130s, has contributed to an overall decline in collective airborne proficiency,” according to LTG Gregory Anderson, CG of the 18th Airborne Corps.

Per Anderson, “This is not about saving money; it’s about getting readiness to where we need it.” 🤣🤣🤣

Jump pay is $150/mo or $1800 a year; so this "not about saving money" effort is saving the Army $36M a year.

To maintain jump status, a soldier must qualify four times a year.

[Lawman]

Again, God bless the dirty heathens of the US Army!  When it comes to morale, they simply don't give a shit!

Army to Recode 20,000 Parachutist Jobs in Major Airborne Restructuring
BLUF: In an attempt to "improve readiness," the Army is recoding nearly 20,000 paid parachutist positions that, although remaining as "airborne billets," the affected soldiers will no longer be required to maintain jump status or receive jump pay.

Of course, the Air Force is being blamed.  "Limited aircraft availability, especially C-17s and C-130s, has contributed to an overall decline in collective airborne proficiency,” according to LTG Gregory Anderson, CG of the 18th Airborne Corps.

Per Anderson, “This is not about saving money; it’s about getting readiness to where we need it.” 

Jump pay is $150/mo or $1800 a year; so this "not about saving money" effort is saving the Army $36M a year.

To maintain jump status, a soldier must qualify four times a year.

It isn’t the jump pay that is costing, it is the associated tax on unit readiness to facilitate taking something like Brigade HHC full of non jumping MOS people to do their mandatory jumps. We don’t have a flying hour program funded to support a bunch of cooks and Hr clerks doing Hollywood jumps, though god knows I’ve burned useful blade hours supporting them.

The crap the guys on jump status do for essentially drinking money and the misappropriation of unit training calendar time to facilitate is criminal. It is the Army of stuff like the Greywolf guys always coming down with a fully loaded Dornier full of “crew” every month to Zambo and providing the actual mission their with less seats than the C-12 for AMRs. We know why you’re here, and don’t pretend it’s to support for a critical mission.


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[icohftb]

Bet they will save a couple million bucks in Motrin as well.

[BashiChuni]

14 hours ago, General Chang said:

Greatest Star Trek villain in history (with all due respect to Ricardo Montalban’s Khan Noonien Singh, of course).

[HU&W]

On 4/8/2025 at 10:36 PM, dream big said:

To be fair there is nothing stopping MAJCOMs and subordinate units from establishing family days. I guess sucks for you if you’re in ACC with Wilsbach.

Global strike is doing just that.  
 

I suspect AMC, AFSOC, and PACAF to do the same.  Sorry ACC. 

[yzl337]

9 minutes ago, HU&W said:

Global strike is doing just that.  
 

I suspect AMC, AFSOC, and PACAF to do the same.  Sorry ACC. 

AFSOC follows SOCOM's directed family days, which have always been specified like global strike is doing and in compliance, I don't expect anything to change....but I've been wrong before.