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If his accusers are right, Americans died looking for him. You don't walk away from that.

Mar96, To be a fighter pilot... - Pass UPT and be lucky...and good -To qualify for UPT you must pass a physical and a screening program -To be a go to screening/physical you must be an officer and be selected and qualify for UPT -To be an officer you must have a commission -To get a commission you must complete a commissioning program -To enter a commissioning program you must have a 4-yr degree You're a senior in HS thinking about steps 6-9 in a years long process. Highly recommend you re-think. Any advice you get here will NOT help you get a fighter in 4-6 years from now. Highly recommend you consider alternatives to enlisting (just go to college, do ROTC, take scholarship or PELL grants or limited student loans) and work side jobs to make ends meet. Do not marry or procreate or do drugs/weed/commit crimes. At all. Focus focus focus on grades & doing well in ROTC. Another alternative: skip ROTC, go to college, volunteer, work, play sports, get straight As, do not marry or procreate or drink and drive or smoke week or commit any crimes...work a side job and focus focus focus on grades. After college rush units and get hired, then sent to OTS, IFS, and UPT. Option 3: Enlist because you want to enlist and serve. Use your GI Bill and get your degree. Do not marry, procreate, or commit crimes or do drugs. Serve honorably and well, then attempt to get hired for OTS/UPT, even after enlistment term is up. My personal opinion is the ROTC option ups your odds in your favor the most. Whatever you decide, focus your efforts on each rung in the ladder at its appropriate time. Good luck!

"...then good." WTF? Why would you want to "hide" your intent from your CC and SR? I am frank and open with my guys, my SR, and everyone in between. This year alone, I've gotten 4 of 5 guys to their #1 choice (not all were my #1 recommendation for them) of assignment or school, and got the 5th an option he was content with. That's not going to happen if you keep secrets. All your career choices are valid. My job is to show you the alternatives to your career choices, then help you on your chosen path. How can any other method possibly work in your favor? Don't keep secrets, guys...tell your CC what's important to you, and what you want to go do next, and the follow-on...then let the CC work Magic for you.

I did an MWS initial qual with a butter bar "off-the-street" reservist. She did college, majored in aviation, then got hired at a regional. After a year there, she went to a party and met a reservist pilot who encouraged her to rush the unit. She did, and got hired. She did OTS, UPT, then IQT. So two years or so of AD as a reservist, then back to her airline gig with mil flying on the side. She was 24 years old when I met her. If I had known that was possible when I started college...that's what I would've tried to do. Almost forgot: Yes, she was hot. No, I don't have pics.

Concur. Am not a fan of "Rick's Rants" but he's NOT wrong and I was hoping he'd triumph in court. Quoted for emphasis and truth.

And this is why: "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." Benjamin Franklin

This phenomena is called the "CSI effect". Needing physical evidence to corroborate testimony. It's not common to get such evidence, and most of the time you're left with only two detailed written statements: she said vs he said. Who is lying? Who has motive to lie? Her? What does she gain by making up the story? Him? What is he gaining by saying it never happened? If she is lying, she's vindictive and crazy to put herself through the ringer just to get a dude put in prison as a sex offender. Some accusers do this. If he's lying, it's to save his ass. This is almost universally true, which is why OSI likes to get confessions or admissions. Most CMs likely see it this way and as long as the accuser is even close to credible, the accused is toast. Again, then, what SHOULD happen?

So...do you not see that THIS is "victim/accuser blaming?" And this attitude is why this is such a tough problem for commanders/units/the AF? All I know about this case is the story linked above, and what I read here: http://www.afjag.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-141020-038.pdf Your visceral response to the "accuser-friendly" article leads me to believe one of two things: 1) you are aware of exculpatory evidence or facts NOT in evidence, or 2) you simply believe Brooks over Kris. The CM voted to convict, therefore the court believed Kris' credibility over Brooks'. This is a typical case: no eyewitness, no physical evidence, no overt confession of guilt. Just two peers in the same squadron, one accusing, the other denying. One is lying, and the investigation (which naturally assumes the victim ISNT lying) uncovers nothing new...her word against his...what SHOULD the AF do?

I would not. But I already have access to illustrator and Photoshop. And I wouldn't send images to strangers...because that never ends well.

"2". Reminded me of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" but more adult-ier.

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I did. And so did my fellow panel members. Some read faster, some slower, but we had a duty to each officer to fairly evaluate each record, in its entirety. So that's what we did. Edit: grammar

In my corner of the AF, and in all my previous corners, this is patently false.

I would've included both the strat and the DG...if it made sense in the story I'm telling the board. As to leaving the combat stuff out, I probably would've kept it (early in the PRF), since I think the AF should value that... But in both cases, your SR found something he/she liked better, to better demonstrate your potential to serve in the next higher grade. The best PRF lines don't just say what you did, they indicate and describe what you CAN do, if given the chance.

"Opportunity" % is determined before the PRFs are written...either way, it doesn't matter to the folks who get DNPs for that board...and the true number of DNPs given on a "real" board is negligible to the folks who didn't get a DNP.

"13. Ensure service members receive financial assistance to cover nutritional needs" WTF? Either we'll all get full perdiem on TDYs...or we just acknowledged we pay our young'ins below the poverty level?

//wall of text alert// No. DP allocations for IPZ/APZ and BPZ are different. A DP given IPZ traditionally gives you your 99% chance of getting picked up. A DP given APZ is rare, comes from the SR's allocation of IPZ DPs, and 50+% of the time, gives a guy a 99% chance of getting picked up. A DP given BPZ is also rare, but not as rare as APZ. I'd say they have a >50% success rate. AFPC keeps stats on all boards, and several MAJCOMs (A1) sites will have more specific demographics. Example (very simplified) cohort: The AF has 1378 LAF majors (all zones) eligible for P0515B (promotion board, to O5, CY'15, second officer promotion board of the year). 800 BPZ, 200 APZ, and 378 IPZ. Promotion "opportunity" is 85%. So there are 321 promotions to be had (378x.85=321) A Wing has 70 of the 1378 majors. Of the 70: 40 are 2 or 1 year BPZ 15 are IPZ 15 are APZ (1, 2, 3+ APZ, continued) The Wg/CC is the Senior Rater (SR). For this board only, the DP allocation rate is 25% I/APZ (378x.25=95 DPs) 10% BPZ. (800 x .1=80 DPs). So, our SR can give 3.75 DPs to I/APZ records (15 IPZ x 25% = 3.75) The SR will allocate 3 DPs to the 3 "best" I/APZ records (as he/she decides), and take the .75 DP to the MLR. The SR can award up to 4 DPs (10% of 40=4) to the top BPZ records. At the MLR, all the SRs in the MAJCOM (usually, wing/CCs, staff directors, etc) toss their "leftover" DP fractions together to create whole DPs. Our guy put in .75, all the others put in their leftovers, and after adding them all up, the MLR can award 4 more I/APZ DPs. Now, the SR (typically) shows all the other SRs the DP records he awarded on his own, then competes his next-best record for one of the MLRs DPs. Our guy has good records, so he wins 2 more DPs from the MLR (5 total). After the MLR, our SR's rack-n-stack looks like this: BPZ. IPZ. APZ 1 DP. 1-4 DP. 1 DP 2 DP. 5-14 P. 2-14 P 3 P.* 15 DNP 15 DNP 4-38: P 39-40: DNP** * this guy is eligible for DP, but SR doesn't think the record supports a DP. **(All DNPs are guys with referral OPRs, Art15s, prisoners, etc) Assuming the rest of the AF did it nearly the same way, most SRs lists will look very similar. At the actual board, the 1378 records are randomly assigned to maybe six panels, each panel comprised of 5 LAF Colonels. So each panel scores ~222 records, scoring each one between a 6.0-10.0 scale, in .5 increments. If any 2 or more Colonels scores differ more than 1.5, the record is flagged and the "split" is discussed and resolved. Your record's board score is the sum of the 5 scores from each Colonel. You got a P, and your record got: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7.5. 7.0. 7.0. 7.5. 8.0 =. 37.0 The best record in the board got a 50.0. The 1378th record got 30.0. The list looks like this: 1 50 2 49.5 3 49.0 4-79: 48.5-46 80-121: 45.5-42 122-176: 42-40 177-289: 39.5-38 290-316: 37.5-36 317-321: 35.5 322-399: 35-34.5 400-1378: 34-30 So, since there are 321 promotions available, everyone who scored 35.5 or more gets put in the initial promotion list. As a quality check, all the records with scores between 35 and 36 are rescored and a final top 321 list is built. Record #322 now gets rescored, if that record is fully qualified for promotion, then the process is complete (#322 does not get promoted, but his being fully qualified ensures everyone who DOES get promoted is fully qualified). In the end, our fake board promoted the full 85% (321), with 275 IPZ, 35 BPZ, and 11 APZ. There were 800 BPZ, 80 BPZ DPs, and 35 promoted. There were 378 IPZ, 83 DPs (22% of the 25% allocation rate), and 275 promoted. There were 200 APZ, 12 DPs (3% of the 25% DP allocation rate), and 11 promoted. Congrats to all my fake Lt Col selects. Your board #s will vary, but this illustration is typical. Check your records (PRDA) , check your SURF (AMS) and DQHB (vMPF) often, and see your CSS to correct errors...and keep your ADP, VRED, and SGLI updated at least annually. And not least: talk to your Sq commanders, talk to your group commanders, find a mentor. Ask questions, ask for frank feedback. And...don't suck. Good luck. ETA: for the purists out there: yes, this is oversimplified, yes, I left out some stuff. This was intended only as "telling-time", not how to build a watch.

Many flyers do, with their bonuses.

We are.

Anyone try NBoKC for conventional 15yr fixed mortgage?

Logic says no. You separate in the grade you hold, and hire into the ARC grade/position they put you in. I could be wrong though...any ARC brothers want to chime in?

If you establish a separation date prior to PRFs being due (30 days prior to board), that fact will show up on your PRF indirectly, or on your DQHB directly as a DOS. It does NOT automatically DQ you from promotion consideration. The board will weigh the fact you've got a DOS as just one factor among all the others when scoring your record. If you establish the DOS after the board starts, the board won't know. In either case, you can show up on the promotion list.

For my base, 06 with is down 3%, and without is down 7% or so.

I'll prognosticate for the rest of FY15: 1) No Involuntary Force Reductions 2) Extremely limited voluntary reduction offers 3) twice non-promoted officers in critical skills within 4 years of retirement will be offered continuation, and TERA will be offered to eligible non-continued officers The FY14 cuts were deep, into muscle, and we're feeling it.

Is nK within their rights, as a govt, to cyber-attack Sony (an intl corp) for an insult? Can the US, or Japanese, govt, or Sony, now cyber-attack nK companies? When a foreign govt sponsors or performs a crippling hack on an international company with strong ties to the US, what's the proper response? And who should respond?