What's wrong with the Air Force?

[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 4:29 PM, arg said:

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

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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 10:44 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!! 

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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]

  On 4/10/2025 at 1:06 PM, M2 said:

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]

  On 4/10/2025 at 5:00 AM, General Chang said:

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

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[HU&W]

  On 4/9/2025 at 3:36 AM, 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.

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Global strike is doing just that.  
 

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

[yzl337]

  On 4/11/2025 at 3:30 AM, HU&W said:

Global strike is doing just that.  
 

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

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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.

[ClearedHot]

Cat 5 is the PERFECT case for review!

So many waivers as he pushes 300lbs!

 

[ClearedHot]

He is fat AND destroying USAFA.  Can this sycophant.

Air Force Academy's Staff Cuts Unclear Amid Mass Resignations; Cadets Assured of World-Class Education

[Swizzle]

  On 4/24/2025 at 12:42 PM, ClearedHot said:

 

Air Force Academy's Staff Cuts Unclear Amid Mass Resignations; Cadets Assured of World-Class Education

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They're lowering the semester hours total required to graduate USAFA. Nothing to see there...wonder what class requisite(s) will be cut - perhaps Civics and/or Ethics? Elective like basket weaving?

[dream big]

  On 4/24/2025 at 5:42 PM, Swizzle said:

They're lowering the semester hours total required to graduate USAFA. Nothing to see there...wonder what class requisite(s) will be cut - perhaps Civics and/or Ethics? Elective like basket weaving?

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Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶

[icohftb]

  On 4/26/2025 at 8:50 AM, dream big said:

Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶

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Funny I was an Aero major but philosophy was one of the most interesting classes to me.

[Sua Sponte]

  On 4/26/2025 at 8:50 AM, dream big said:

Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶

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The best pilots I flew with were business majors, the worst were STEM.

[Magellan]

  On 4/27/2025 at 3:32 AM, Sua Sponte said:

The best pilots I flew with were business majors, the worst were STEM.

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So you are saying you have a business major?

[ClearedHot]

  On 4/27/2025 at 8:02 PM, Magellan said:

So you are saying you have a business major?

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He is not a pilot...

[busdriver]

  On 4/27/2025 at 3:32 AM, Sua Sponte said:

The best pilots I flew with were business majors, the worst were STEM.

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No correlation.  I'm the best pilot I've ever flown with and I majored in engineering.

But I've known fuzzy majors who weren't half bad too.

[herkbum]

I have no idea what the majors were of people I flew with. Didn’t matter to us. As long as you knew/did your job. As long as you were someone I wanted to have a beer with afterwards.


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[jonlbs]

People went to college to do things besides chase ass?

[SocialD]

  On 4/27/2025 at 9:16 PM, jonlbs said:

People went to college to do things besides chase ass?

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Not to my knowledge.  

[ClearedHot]

[GKinnear]

Last year was PCS orders, this year its retirement orders...I don't think the government has had a normal budget cycle since the sequestration debacle in 2011/2012.

Yet the shareholders (US voting citizens) keep endorsing the board with only minor changes...plus les choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes

Edit:  Just saw on Reddit that training TDYs have also been hit...I'm so far removed from the line, I've got zero SA on it.  Anyone else seeing that as well?

Edited Saturday at 01:23 PM by GKinnear

[contraildash]

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This will probably be all jacked up, but here is the entire memo plus pre-made Q&A.

No one is being involuntarily forced to stay….but we aren’t cutting orders and you may be delayed.

LoL

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