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Deon coming home

All it took was a plane and 4th quarter walkout.

FSU coach fired....

Who knows, but after 50+ years as a Gator, nothing surprises me anymore... 😞😞😞

Does the 171st only have T-Models and no R-Models?

Miami wins again but our defense is not that good...I have a bad feeling about next week. Miami soundly beats Clemson, FSU plays Miami to the wire, Clemson crushes FSU. Apparently they flew a banner over the stadium during before the game calling for the firing of Norvell. @M2 What is up with UF....they play lights out one week then look like a high school team the next? Your team has talent and a good coach. Ohio State is one dimensional without their starting QB. A lot of two loss SEC teams and Kentucky is standing at #2 in the conference. Crazy times.

Since I am old school, live near DM and flew the A-37B I had to look up what an EA-37B was. Classes certainly are small ie 18. We had 50 in my class. How do they award DG status or do they? It was the top 10% in my class and two of the guys were previous F-4 WSO's, one with 3 Mig kills both finishing 1 & 2.

Happy Halloween

Breaking News: He hired all of them to be secretaries under him. Sorry Biff

Globalists try a coup d'état in Poland, seems to be at an impasse https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/10/30/poland-coup-attempt-prime-minister-donald-tusk-seizes-top-court-n2208841

Ahh. ARTEMIS making issues? That sucks. Hopefully they can find a workaround for it because if you have RPA hours, today would be the last day to update them for your PCSM according to the PSDM.

I think what dreambig said is generally applicable to fighters as well. Overall downrange, guys are flying a normal year’s worth in 2-3 months. That has ebbed and flowed with the “cease fire”-not cease fire-“cease fire” cycle, so just a generalization.

I know guys in my old squadron that were looking to apply this year were trying to use RPA hours. I want to say folks at AFPC were taking them but at a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3. The issue my guys ran into is since SARM uses a new system to log everything when the guys routed the memo with the excel hour report produced by SARM the AFPC folks denied it since that didn't look official compared to the old ARMS report.

That shift from a 90+ exemption to an actual unit program is the part I find most interesting. Do those programs look different from the usual test preparation, or is it mostly more scheduled group sessions?

I realized where you guys are wrong. The PSDM says "Hours accrued during IFT can be logged in your civilian flight log; hours earned through CSO/RPA/ABM training cannot be added to your civilian logbook to boost your PCSM score. " Again, RPA hours can and do count toward your PCSM score. You all misinterpreted the verbiage.

I don't think the board cared about 500 hours and no ratings. They could see I was an RPA Pilot when I applied via my AF Form 215 and other application materials.

That might be a new thing but when I applied, it was explicitly allowed via a memo or maybe the PSDM that said RPA hours can count toward PCSM score. Just to add more evidence, if you check out the candidate worksheet on the PCSM website, question 14 asks how you received your hours and one of the ways is RPA. And here is a screenshot my records:

Deployment predictability is better on tac airlift side but the threats they are facing is unprecedented, especially in garrison.

Checks. RPA hours are just RPA hours, doesn’t boost PCSM.

Yeah, I see your point however with MRTT already flying the technical risk is low and fleet complexity manageable, I think.

True, the need for a very large fuel load for either offload and/or loiter while ideally the situation cools down is highly desirable AI Google says loiter for 4 hours at 1000 NM from launch and offload 110k, that’s time to decide whether to execute Wing Attack Plan R or not. #strangelove Tactical tanker is KC-390, Standard tanker is KC-46, Strategic Tanker is KC-45 (A-330 MRTT+). Build it in the Airbus plant in Mobile. Tactical and Strategic are each 20% of the tanker fleet, 60% are Standard tails.

Tankers have a strategic mission. Keep that in mind.

RPA hours definitely don’t count towards your total civilian hours unless you’re referring to DOSS. There’s a note in the PSDM stating ABM/CSO/RPA hours outside of DOSS cannot be added to boost your PCSM.