craino21

May 17, 2017 was nearly 2 years ago? Also, 4 people pled guilty and took a plea deal and avoided sentencing. Who knows what will come of this but I don't see reason for a facepalm yet.

It's been a mix. Most of the units, Moody, Patrick, DM, have flown themselves out while NY flew down in C-17s. You'd be surprised how long it takes to fold and unfold a -60 for air transport and it usually makes more sense to cross country instead.

I'll take the first 365 days without a deployment since graduating UPT for $1000. Not flying will blow, but to actually have a year of 9-5 to remember what my wife looks like and not spend half the year in some desert sounds good to me. Montgomery is shangri-la compared to Afghanistan/Iraq.

Got an email from my SQ/CC today that the IDE/SDE list will be out on 21 Nov.

Well I'd rather an engine fall off than the cockpit (statements I never thought I'd have to make).

It's going to take a 308 beam completely failing (which I've already been expecting daily for a couple of years now) and a complete loss of the crew to get any traction on a -60 replacement. And even then, they'll just ground the -60 fleet and completely kill CSAR when that happens. Hooray.

And we've tried that and it was worse. I'd agree that AFSOC has changed in the last decade, but so has ACC. Do we really need to change MAJCOM every decade to see if things have changed for the better? Also, a word of caution, ACC's support of CSAR is far different from USAFE's, and for the better (assuming this is who I think it is). In a perfect world if we were just adding helicopters to the Air Force I'd agree that AFSOC would probably be the place to put us, but this push feels like a cheap grab for money and additional airframes. I do not see this as AFSOC trying to do the best they can for PR. I'm a huge fan of the tilt-rotor concept, and I think the CV-23 would be a fantastic CSAR aircraft, however I think the CV-22 is too compromised to truly replace the HH-60. And if we're talking a mixed fleet it's not just a little more expensive, it's fantastically more expensive. The only way to replace the -60 is a direct replacement, at least in this economic environment. What prevent's the CV-22 from having a place? Training, asset allocation and money. As soon as the CVs at Hurlburt start flying up to Moody for CSARTFs we can begin this discussion. Do you see that happening any time soon? I don't. EDIT: Busdriver beat me to it.

Any chance I can file an IG complaint over all of these ridiculous inspections for creating a hostile work environment?

Alex, we'll have to swing back by the roundabout again when we return from Afghanistan! I think we can do better than we did last time.

Or just go in and take as many tests blind as you need to get to Joint. It's not like the tests are that hard. The hardest part about the tests is getting them scheduled around the flying schedule, etc. What's the worst that can happen? You have to take 6.0 anyway?

Not the full story. Ask your intel bubbas, they should be able to tell you what happened.

One of my buddies just got picked up to go get another masters and teach biology at USAFA. He will also be flying the Otter (supposedly all rated instructors fly the otter as well, so you keep earning flight pay and gate months). I can't speak to the actual life as he PCSs in the spring. I know in our squadron we got an email stating that they were taking applications, he submitted his and got picked up. He's a pretty squared away dude (he was also picked up for TPS at the same time and got to choose) but if they'll let someone out of the -60 to go they'll probably let you out of anything.

The Air Force has helicopters? I'll believe it when I see it. The acquisitions system will find some way to mess this up, just like CSAR-X/PRV/HH-60M.

Nope, still pretty spot on. I didn't even know anything had happened until I saw this thread.

Lock 'em forward, switches.