What's wrong with the Air Force?

[jonlbs]

1 hour ago, Biff_T said:

The Martyr reminds me of the G-Spot (Guam).   

Great now my repressed memories of St Johns are back...

[brabus]

1 hour ago, Biff_T said:

The Martyr reminds me of the G-Spot (Guam).   

Great memories…the stories I could tell (but not on the internet!)

@Zero I remember 2008ish when we all were “fuck these gay scarves!” Fast forward to 2013 post-Shaw - “fuck you chief, check out my ascot!” The swings are humorous looking back.

Edited Saturday at 05:29 PM by brabus

[Smokin]

I love the passive aggressive approach to BS like this.  I was directly told by my DO in 2008 that if I didn't wear a reflective belt out the door for the night sortie then I'd get no-stepped.  So I doubled it up and wore it like a Jap about to do a Banzai.  When I got the WTF look from him, I responded that it was far more visible and safer that way.  My harness didn't cover any of it and the higher elevation would give greater visibility, and since safer is better, this should become the new standard.  He turned around and basically stormed out.  I got to fly my sortie and morally got a draw since I made the DO leave me alone for a while but at the cost of actually kind of wearing that absurd thing.

[nsplayr]

You'd be right at home on https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/ @Smokin 🍺

You love to see it. F that guy from your story and F the guys in charge pushing this BS again. Shit, depending on how long ago that was, maybe it's the same guy!

[SocialD]

11 hours ago, Smokin said:

I love the passive aggressive approach to BS like this.  I was directly told by my DO in 2008 that if I didn't wear a reflective belt out the door for the night sortie then I'd get no-stepped.  So I doubled it up and wore it like a Jap about to do a Banzai.  When I got the WTF look from him, I responded that it was far more visible and safer that way.  My harness didn't cover any of it and the higher elevation would give greater visibility, and since safer is better, this should become the new standard.  He turned around and basically stormed out.  I got to fly my sortie and morally got a draw since I made the DO leave me alone for a while but at the cost of actually kind of wearing that absurd thing.

 

 

Love it!  However, you missed a great opportunity to not have to fly another painful NVG sortie.  

 

Signed, night train guy for half my deployments and ORIs.  

[Biff_T]

13 hours ago, Smokin said:

So I doubled it up and wore it like a Jap about to do a Banzai. 

Very safe of you sir.   

The air force should make fully reflective flight suits, for safety.  

[snoopyeast]

There was a guy at the Deid that had flashing lights on his reflective belt.  Got told to remove them as it was making a mockery of the reflective belt...

Who remembers the C-17 crews with the light up shoes 🤣

[nsplayr]

The irony of sanitized & camouflaged flight suits + reflective belts never ceased to amaze me.

[CaptainMorgan]

Very safe of you sir.   
The air force should make fully reflective flight suits, for safety.  

Better yet, reflective for normal ops, and if you’re downed, you turn it inside out for evasion!


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[ClearedHot]

[LookieRookie]

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.

[Day Man]

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

memo

between this and the elimination of everything DEI, I expect the suicide rate to plummet 

[nsplayr]

The pendulum is swinging comically hard toward strict-interpretation queep bullshit. We gotta have another war to actually focus up on shit that matters, only half kidding...

Who put a barbed wire baseball bat up these people's asses?? Leadership is busy funging everything in sight, with no end in sight. Funge = fun sponge for those who are uninitiated.

I for one can't wait to do my open ranks inspection in service dress with a super straight gig line and not a single hair besmirching my ears on a cancelled Family Day while also not teleworking during no-longer-Women's History month!

/sarcasm

Edited Monday at 12:53 AM by nsplayr

[Swizzle]

1 hour ago, nsplayr said:

The pendulum is swinging comically hard toward strict-interpretation queep bullshit. We gotta have another war to actually focus up on shit that matters, only half kidding...

Who put a barbed wire baseball bat up these people's asses?? Leadership is busy funging everything in sight, with no end in sight. Funge = fun sponge for those who are uninitiated.

I for one can't wait to do my open ranks inspection in service dress with a super straight gig line and not a single hair besmirching my ears on a cancelled Family Day while also not teleworking during no-longer-Women's History month!

/sarcasm

I won't laugh when they fix the acquisition system and MAJCOM JCIDs/CONOPs by actually enforcing MAJCOMs supporting it with proper resources, holding vendors accountable with great technical data/operational test reports, and providing the necessary warfighter material on a reasonable timeline. This infers MAJCOMs doing their part ISO DoDI5000.89-DAF99-103 and DAFI 63-series... honestly, safely, quickly, and effectively with adept operator input. Get deep and serious into some long lead logistics and QFA!

As Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics”. USAF HQs are all strategy, no functional logistics. For example MC rates of...well, anything.

Bobs cherry picking shit of their own interest without suitable and effective data backing the decision for the operators needs to stop. Where their report card!?

Till then I laugh, as it's all reclaimed-water ball wash. What strategy is next? B2B!?

[Biff_T]

I actually flew in an orange mustang suit a few times.   I hated those things.  Never the less, it was orange and very reflective.   

Edit: Shirts are for pussies!

Edited Monday at 03:13 AM by Biff_T
Afterthought

[RASH]

between this and the elimination of everything DEI, I expect the suicide rate to plummet 

That’s equivalent to assuming…


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[Lord Ratner]

14 hours ago, nsplayr said:

We gotta have another war to actually focus up on shit that matters, only half kidding...

This has always been the answer. Don't worry, I don't think it will be much longer before we have it.

[nsplayr]

1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:

This has always been the answer. Don't worry, I don't think it will be much longer before we have it.

Agreed

[uhhello]

When was the last time post Desert Storm where we weren't deployed consistently and randomly conducting combat ops from those locations?  Has there been a time?  

[busdriver]

Yeah, but you gotta deploy the masses if you want to knock back the queep monster.  The queep monster is a pussy at heart, it fears combat and hardship.

Edited Monday at 10:10 PM by busdriver

[Bigred]

On 2/14/2025 at 12:39 PM, brabus said:

A fairly standard technique was wear it “normal” for the most part, but when you went somewhere outside of the squadron and felt like raising some blood pressure, do the tie thing, ascot, etc. Had a bro get his new ID picture with full ascot. They pushed back hard trying to say he couldn’t have that in his picture and he whipped out a printed card with the applicable regs - he won. The small victories were priceless. 

I haven't worn a uniform in my CAC ID picture since roughly 2008. My most recent iteration is from deployment where I was rocking a hawaiian shirt and a wildly out of regs mustache. Funny story is that I had recently been around a cat (I'm allergic) and my red eyes and ginger skin ended up with me looking like a cancer patient. It's gotten belly laughs from gate guards all the way to TSA agents at the airpot. 

There are zero rules saying you have to be in uniform for your CAC picture. And, if there are, no one has batted an eye. 

[disgruntledemployee]

Shady Joe was often threatened to get a new CAC.  The out of regs stash and grin were priceless.

[SocialD]

This should fix that shitty morale and retention problem!  🤣

 

 

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2025/02/18/air-force-reviewing-four-day-weekends-amid-civilian-leave-crackdown/