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Champ Kind, on 24 May 2013 - 09:40 AM, said:

Yes, we should be able to establish good habit patterns at home, but that would mean we actually focus on flying and there are flying training hours available. Otherwise, we are just stuck doing the minimums to meet RAP or currency so we look good on paper. After all, we have a Christmas party to plan...ain't nobody got time for flying!

Butters, on 23 May 2013 - 09:19 PM, said:

It is this kind of thinking and joking around that creates a culture tolerant of deviant sexual behavior in this Air Force! But on a more serious note....where can I sign up to get one of those strippers!?!?

Keep in mind, any bonus you sign is not intended to benefit you in any way unless you are in it for the money (which really isn't much). All the bonus does is obligates you to Big Blue, it does not obligate Big Blue to you. In other words, while you can't get out of your "10-year" deal, Big Blue can release you at any time from your 10-year deal no questions asked. So it doesn't guarantee anything especially a career to 20 years and a pension. This is a type of "force management" without actually having to manage. They know they have you because you can't leave, but they can cut you if they realize they don't need you. Having "free agents" in a world of 365s to Shitcrackistan and 7-day opts forces Big Blue to actually manage people and they don't want to have to do that. As long as you know that going in, you won't be disappointed if you get RIFd, bonus or no bonus, when the Air Force has to draw down. I do find it ironic how the AF spent so much time and money RIFing and VSPing pilots, giving them money to separate, and then asking Congress for more money to fund a program to keep pilots in...no one ever saw that coming.

skytaco, on 23 May 2013 - 10:29 AM, said:

I don't believe it happened...I want to see proof....

gearpig, on 15 May 2013 - 05:18 AM, said:

What the f*ck are we supposed to call them then?!? All jokes aside...the next few months are going to be painful with all this new sexual assault prevention training. The irony of all this happening just after celebrating "Sexual Assault Prevention Month" in April....SMH. Are they offering early retirement?!?

Hagel wants answers to the "rot" at Minot.

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Welsh's civilian boss, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, suggested a silver lining to the trouble at Minot. The fact that Minot commanders identified 17 underperformers was evidence that the Air Force has strengthened its monitoring of the nuclear force, he said. And he stressed that launch crew members typically are relatively junior officers -- lieutenants and captains -- with limited service experience

Really? You think that is the problem? We’ve only had junior officers acting as launch crew members for DECADES…it has only recently become a problem. Perhaps you should look at what the Air Force has stressed is important to these junior officers with such limited service experience…and it isn’t job performance. Unfortunately that isn’t what defines “success” in this organization.

I know there are several underlying factors that contribute to this, but if they are going to blame this on “junior officers….with limited service experience,” why is the Air Force insisting on RIFing its “experience?” Why doesn’t the Air Force put more emphasis on being an expert at your job as a junior officer? We’ve been emphasizing everything but being and expert at one’s primary job for the past 5 years, so now the junior officers who grew up that way are now leading managing this new batch of junior officers that way thinking that an “e-mail,” instead of actual leadership, is going to fix things.

We have a lot of work to do…I’ll get on it when I’m done with my Master’s Thesis.