Boilermaker

No, I hadn't seen this, but I'll check it out. Thanks for the info.

I will concede that many of the physical books look to be descent. But the TED talks are part of the "reading list" and are ridiculous. Further I'd point out, when you first go to the reading list, does it take you to the books page? No, it takes you to the Home tab, and what is featured front and center? Not the books, but the TED Talks. I do find it ironic that of the short list of 12 books 2 of them are about eating right while as referenced above they are discussing relaxing PT standards.

So on a somewhat separate note, I was curious if any of you have seen this yet? I have a bit of a personal interest in military history, tactics, strategy etc... and I thought I'd like to do a little reading up on the topic. I thought to myself, no need to reinvent the wheel, surely there is a shortlist of must reads that already exists on this topic to get me started. Then I remembered one of the CSAF AF wide emails that referenced a reading list. A short google search later and here it is. Thing is, I'm honestly not surprised, but it just put it in a new light. I text the link to my dad who served in the 70s and 80s. His response, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? ing pussies all of them!!!!" Couldn't have said it better myself. Reality hits you hard bro. http://static.dma.mil/usaf/csafreadinglist/index.html For anyone who doesn't take the time, a quick summary of some of the leading titles How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders How Great Leaders Inspire Action

I suppose they may, in the past I've always waited until I came back from duty and filled it out by hand.

Okay cool, I did not know you could sign PDF stuff. Forgive my newness. I will do that, in the meantime if anyone does happen to have a copy of the .xfdl file, I'd still like to get a copy so I can do it from home.

I don't NEED it, I'm just on extended TDY and have to send a voucher back every month. It would be easier to just sign it digitally and email it than print it, sign it, scan it, email it.

I'm not that dumb. It looks like they're there, but once you download it, it just says they've been removed. It refers you to the DoD site, but it's only in PDF there.

The X-32 is the product of the F-35 mating with a Pelican.

The forms are out there in PDF, I need the IBM forms format .xfdl

I am in need of the IBM Forms version of a travel voucher. E-Pubs has removed the form as has every other outlet I know of to push people to DTS, but my unit still uses paper. Does anyone by chance have a copy saved they could send me? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3060026/US-Air-Force-refuelling-aircraft-falls-radar-English-Channel.html Anyone know anything about this? I couldn't find any other articles. Thoughts and prays with the crew.

Which will be paid with future tax dollars, future debt, or future inflation. That's like buying stuff with your credit card and saying it isn't being paid for with your income, maybe not today, but the credit card bill has to be paid with tomorrow's income.

Napoleon started to hit upon what so many people seem to miss when talking about the government as a jobs program. The government can never create jobs. At best it will be a zero sum game. They take money out of the economy in the form of taxes, debt, or inflation and then reintroduce it back into the economy as if they somehow know what industries or products are needed more than others. This is not to say politicians are stupid, though this is often the case, but that no single actor can make such decisions as efficiently as all actors acting freely. Supply and demand will naturally result in the most efficient use of our resources. If we have too much of one product or service, the price will fall and people will produce less of it. If we have too little and it is in demand, more will be produced. However, no individual can obtain such knowledge. Therefore, any attempt to remove resources from the market via taxes, debt, or inflation to prop up one sector or company over another will only result in misappropriation of those funds and result in an inefficiency in the market. Whereas, if they were not removed in the first place they would have been use more efficiently to produce products and services of value. This is how jobs are created. Even if the government were somehow capable of doing this with 100% efficiency we would only break even because they would be making the same decisions that would otherwise be made. In reality, however, there are a multitude of layers of fraud, waist, and abuse along the way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anarchist, but my point is if the government stayed out of the way and allowed the economy to function freely, a far greater number of jobs would be created. It is easy to count a job created, but it is far harder to quantify the number of jobs that could have been created had the economy been allowed to function freely.

I never really understood the hatred people have for a little jet noise from time to time. I live on about a 10 mile final for a major airport and enjoy sitting on the back deck on weekends, tuning in the scanner to the controlling agency, and listening/watching as they are go over. Oh, and having a few beers while doing it of course.

I also don't have the statistics, but I'd like to know how we compare to the US population, i.e. there are x number of offenses per y number of total people vs the same numbers for the general populace. I imagine the AF has significantly less occurrences per capita. I've also yet to see a stated goal for the number of offenses. Obviously we are working toward zero, but we also know that's impossible. That being the case, if we don't define an acceptable number, and as stated, we'll never reach zero, then this continual focus on SAPR will never end. Further, I doubt we'll ever define an acceptable number because it would be unpopular. Who is going to stand up and publicly say any number of annual rapes are "acceptable." Finally, I'd argue that as time goes by and we do reach a number that is statistically representative of our lowest possible number of incidents, the rate will virtually cease to decrease, and in an effort to further decrease these numbers; briefs, training, etc will increase. Think exponential functions from calculus where the graph approaches but never reaches zero.