Delayed B Course Date

[ClearedHot]

The cycle just keeps repeating. 

My class got ZERO fighters...(except for the Guard Guys), and you will see it reflected in retention.

In my class:

#1 wanted a Bomber and got a KC-10

#2 was a previous Bomber Nav (and was actually on a hard crew with our T-38 Flt/CC), not the best pilot but he got a B-1

I was #3 and all my flight commander could say was "Sorry Bro" Banked

[Clark Griswold]

If only king for a day or if we had a congressman who would drop a turd into that shoe clerk punch bowl… introduce legislation giving the AF 6 months to get studs into FTU or other flight training after graduation or make it a 2 for 1 reduction in their commitment for every day past six months till they get to flight training

If there’s no cost to the Bobs there’s no incentive to fix the glitch


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[StoleIt]

5 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

If only king for a day or if we had a congressman who would drop a turd into that shoe clerk punch bowl… introduce legislation giving the AF 6 months to get studs into FTU or other flight training after graduation or make it a 2 for 1 reduction in their commitment for every day past six months till they get to flight training

If there’s no cost to the Bobs there’s no incentive to fix the glitch


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That still isn't a cost to the Bobs. They will PCS, promote, or retire out and then it will be someone else's problem.

Make it a $2 reduction in their pay or retirement per delay. Something tangible, otherwise they will still wont care to get it right. And Congress will still fuck it up anyway when we hit sequestration, as is tradition.

Edited September 12 by StoleIt

[Biff_T]

On 9/10/2024 at 1:40 PM, ClearedHot said:

The cycle just keeps repeating. 

My class got ZERO fighters...(except for the Guard Guys), and you will see it reflected in retention.

In my class:

#1 wanted a Bomber and got a KC-10

#2 was a previous Bomber Nav (and was actually on a hard crew with our T-38 Flt/CC), not the best pilot but he got a B-1

I was #3 and all my flight commander could say was "Sorry Bro" Banked

My class got two fighters.  Not zero, but definitely not the everybody gets a fighter times.    

I got gay ass helos.    Helos were fucking awesome.   

[Clark Griswold]

16 hours ago, StoleIt said:

That still isn't a cost to the Bobs. They will PCS, promote, or retire out and then it will be someone else's problem.

Make it a $2 reduction in their pay or retirement per delay. Something tangible, otherwise they will still wont care to get it right. And Congress will still fuck it up anyway when we hit sequestration, as is tradition.

If only… the nuclear option would be to offer early release if said students aren’t in a training program by 6.9 months… IRR, Palace Chaise, IST, whatever… but I digress… 

While at the beginning, flying the mail by the AAC, went bad, Air Mail Scandal, having a small utility fleet owned by the AF and chartered specifically to support the Joint Force, Federal and State agencies in contingency and routinely… fly pax, cargo, mail, etc… regularly and on demand for that which doesn’t require a t-tail or Herc, pick an existing regional jet (175, 220, 72) and fly from strategic areas with concentrated gov customers who would use the service, send pilots there if an FTU isn’t available at a reasonable time from graduation, get about 600 hours time and rotate them out to their FTU… the money would come from divesting old iron that in reality is no more survivable than adapting a civilian aircraft to this role, an adapted aircraft still in production would be a helluva lot cheaper to operate and sustain 

[Bigred]

On 9/12/2024 at 8:21 AM, Biff_T said:

   

I got gay ass helos.    Helos were fucking awesome.   

Just because you got gay, doesn’t mean you have to disparage God’s chariots by calling them ass helos. 
 

But yes, I miss helos. They were fucking awesome