[Personal credit card on the road?]

6 hours ago, Homestar said:

It may not be in the JTR but it's DoD policy you nitwit.  The OP seemed to be under the impression that if it wasn't in the JTR then he could do whatever.  I've seen this policy enforced to varying degrees in my career.  Some commanders care, others don't.

Personally I don't see the big deal with not using your GTC and getting your Hilton points when you get Diamond with your AMEX platinum anyway.

Never said it wasn’t policy. His original question was where is this written. Ever had someone tell you a policy existed but quoted the wrong reg? 

In my experience, CCs don’t care. The problem arises from the RA that approves the voucher....RA = must approve voucher. The CC = may subject the traveler to the disciplinary action.

You get Hilton Gold with AMEX platinum. 

[Personal credit card on the road?]

58 minutes ago, BeerMan said:

You obviously put a lot of effort into this. Try Google:

https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/Docs/regulations/GTCC.pdf

040501. Requirement for Use

Unless otherwise exempt (see section 0406), all DoD personnel (military or civilian) are required to use the travel card for all authorized expenses relating to official government travel. Official government travel is defined as travel under official orders to meet mission requirements.

040502. Failure to Use GTCC

Failure to use the travel card will not be used as a basis for refusal to reimburse the traveler for authorized expenses. However, failure to use the travel card may subject the traveler to appropriate administrative or disciplinary action.

Then go look at Section 0406 for exemptions. 

Free advice: If you’re going to break a rule, don’t ask the crowd if it’s ok to break the rule, and then scoff people trying to help you when you appear to have put in about 3 seconds of actual work.

Wait....so, not the JTR? 

Free advice:  Don’t be a jabroni if a dude had a simple question on source information.

Awesome work deconstructing cross-referenced bureaucracy that no one else could. 

[Personal credit card on the road?]

8 minutes ago, viper154 said:

It’s in the JTR I believe. That being said I try to use it for things that need receipts. I’ve not used it several times for extended stay hotels because the charge was above the $4,000 limit and I didn’t feel like calling to up it. I’ve never had anyone say anything to me. I know several people that refuse to use their GTC for anything except the airline tickets booked in DTS and no one has ever said anything. 

Just know if you do it you are technically not following the rules. I would have a good excuse, like you card won’t scan/chip is broke, left your card at home, or some other excuse in your back pocket. 

I de-magnetized mine 3 years ago...never seems to work and the numbers are difficult to read for some reason.

Hilton Diamond. 

[Raptor Gear Up at Fallon?]

9 hours ago, HossHarris said:

Unknown. 

And I don’t know off the top of my cranium if the mishap was AB or mil power takeoff. 

But it doesn’t matter. The point is it happens fast. 

Having flown both now, I will say that flying fighters and flying heavies are wildly different. Completely. Fundamentally.  Cultures, mores, techniques, assumptions, and standards don’t easily transfer from one to another.

Making sure you are flying before you raise the gear isn’t a technique. 

[?s on ADSC (Active Duty Service Commitment)]

5 hours ago, di1630 said:

I would stay voluntarily bonus free past 20 as long as I have the freedom to turn down the 365 or bad deal.

Accepting a ADSC past that mark just gives bonus free work and all leverage to the USAF.

I will hit the VML with 2 yrs and 2 mos left on my ADSC so chances are I’ll put in my paperwork for separation rather than accept another adsc.

This is where the AF will miss out...people willing to stay with their freedom in tact but forced to separate rather than be under the thumb of big blue.

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”  — Richard Branson

Or....do whatever you want. I don’t think the AF knows how to calculate ROI. 

[Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.]

Just fill out the grade sheet? Not for the O-6....

I’m as cynical as the next dude...but I wouldn’t leave the AF bc the OG threatened to remove my certification as an IP if I didn’t do my job. Obviously, not inspiring words from the OG to a new IP...but just fill out the grade sheet. 

 

[1,000 Retired Pilots Can Be Recalled to Active Duty]

19 hours ago, Ram said:

The FS/OG/WG had already worked, routed, and rack/stacked the PRFs for the year.

Just a curious question with regards to the new promotion policy to Major. If they routed and rack/stacked PRFs up to your WG/CC, did the WG/CC give feedback to every dude on how those PRFs would have departed the wing?

Or was it “good game, nothing more to see here” as the PRFs were tossed?

[US drops largest non-nuclear bomb (MOAB) in Afghanistan]

2 hours ago, No2bonus said:

1. Fox said the munition was a dumb bomb in their initial reports. So your assertion is actually wrong.

2. Jenkspaz is right that its GPS guided, hence he corrected my post that the munition is not dumb or unguided. You must of totally skipped his post.

3. The point is you're still not dropping a GPS guided MOAB over N. Korea out the back of a Herk with all the AAA and SAMs going off in the early days of a war. 

4. I shouldn't have to explain this to you with the IADs they have setup in the north. I guess you actually need to have been on the ROK to know how they have their defenses setup or read the assessment for Korea.

Nobody needs to read the assessment for Korea in order to tell that you don't know that MOAB is a guided weapon. 

[C-17 4-engine flameout/SIB/FEB questions in here]

I think the entire system is flawed...especially when you relate the issues in this thread to the issues in the MC-12/Safety System thread.

Ridiculous that privileged findings are used to hang a dude...but in other instances, privileged information is safe-guarded or not emphasized in training enough to gain real lessons learned.

[The USAF Safety Process]

All valid, and think Liquid was spot on. There are some barriers due to the restrictiveness, but also think the info is available...but under a shitload of obstacles that are unnecessary.

Spinning up aircrew in a new airframe that was rapidly procured...the FTU needs to have an emphasis on pushing out the info from past SIBs, but also new aircrew need to seek that info...and that's regardless of airframe. I can somewhat understand the displacement of info of guys that used to be in the MC-12 that are no longer there...but if a pilot is in that current airframe he/she needs acces (whatever kind).

Champ- not saying this doesn't happen at every safety shop or FTU, but don't think it is an emphasis when it should be as a whole.

Liquid- the only part I disagree with is the aspect of training post-SIB.

I am with you that all the products produced from an SIB would give extremely more insight to all crew members in a community, but there needs to be a better answer than that. FTUs need to train based off the information gained from those SIBs or we are repeating previous incidents.

[The USAF Safety Process]

Agree with what you are saying. The main point is that the individual safety offices need to develop root causes of each SIB from the recommendations and disperse that info throughout their respective wings.

I think as a whole, if there is an obvious safety of flight issue....the AF sends guidance thru FCIF/TO change, but the inference of SIB info wrt to each specific airframe is not disseminated to the masses appropriately. That being said, there needs to be action from both the SE office and also line aircrew (mainly IPs) to emphasize the findings and fixes to the info in each SIB report during spin up.

[C-17 lands short at Dover]

Badass...we are not in Nam. We are landing jets short of the runway (if the correct one), even w/ an FE.

[C-17 lands short at Dover]

Having an FE would reduce the mishap rate.

C-5s have an FE. It's ridiculous to say that we train a person for 50 wks (x2)...but an AF pilot needs an FE to determine a go-around. An extra set of eyes okay, maybe...but should NOT be the savior.

[C-17 lands short at Dover]

1000' short isn't likely a case of the sucks.

But, you knew that...

I think there was a C-17 crew that landed 56,000 short about a year ago...but you knew that. I heard the CP switched his display tho.

[C-17 lands short at Dover]

We could probably use a FCIF to make sure this doesn't happen again...

[C-17 Lands at Wrong Airport]

AAD didn't cause this. I agree, the push from leadership wrt PME/AAD causes a distraction from proficiency in a jet esp w/ young guys, but that was not a factor in this situation. That's a tough argument to win - "landed at the wrong airport bc they put the focus on PME/AAD and forgot how to identify an airfield". I'm not saying that was/wasn't their focus, but they landed at the wrong airport. If these guys focused on their masters/container checking too much that they were proficient enough to identify the correct airfield, then it's on them. I'm not going to make the choice of rank progression before knowing how to fly a jet.

The bigger question is how/why this happened w/ a qualified crew in the AF...ie where was the break in the chain (DO signing orders/visual to field w/ no backup guidance, and looking at a strip 1/3 the size it should be). We can all sit there and throw blame at the upper leadership for the misguidance of what is important as a pilot. It doesn't take Gen Welsh to change that mindset...Most dont sign up to be a pilot in the AF to make Major as a LT. It takes a handful of guys (Capts/Majs) to be the experience in a sq and set that tone. if you're "looking around the sq for the experience"...fvck that, study your ass off and be the experience.