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I currently have a letter of recommendation from an O-6 flyer at my base but I'll need to draft my personaly letter. My leadership is aware of my interest in applying but I havnt told them about the board date yet.

Well, it should be about getting more focused on fighting and winning wars. If your position is ONLY stateside, it’s worth considering that you shouldn’t wear a uniform. It’s not about saving money, it’s about focus. Our culture has been diluted by trying to accommodate 50+ sub-cultures. Leaders that never left the wire (or never deployed) are now making decisions for those who will. We need to make it so that when you look at a uniform-wearer you know you’re looking at someone whose purpose is to put their pink body on the line. That might also mean that not everyone gets their own squadrons anymore. Embed uniformed support personnel in the warfighting squadrons under the warfighting commanders (…what’s old is new). Yeah, the culture will change, but if it is not illegal, immoral, or unethical, and doesn’t degrade readiness, then get out of the way. Put it to the warfighters to hash out and decide final solutions. Then execute. Maybe? If the capacity is focused on warfighting, then don’t do that. It’s most important that we think about what a truly optimal force looks like - either gutting or adding. Maybe not. But let’s not think about staffing pork barrel garden spots. Then, for the jobs we do need let’s assume we pay them dollars on the dollar. Let’s start with what we need to win wars. I get that what we will have to go head to head with entrenched bureaucracy and jobs programs… but that’s step two. Then don’t. We need to stop playing to lose and restructure around what we have to win. Then don’t. Pay them O-4/O-5 pay. Pay organizational leaders bonuses proportional to the size of the organizations they lead. I understand the chip and anger at what the DOD has failed to do in the past, or whatever hidden agendas there might have been previously, but we have to get past that, because we’ve got some serious shit to focus on. Back to fighting wars and staffing warfighting organizations with warfighters. Focus. Shut it down. Move the Aircrew Task Force out from the DAF and make it a direct report to Congress. Staff it with Iron Majors if need-be. If they can’t perform, let them fail. Change management. We’re here to win. I think that was the original point.

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Sometimes a Gen tries to stay lean and within the lines, and sometimes their staffs try to keep it the way it's always been and wastes time/money/people. Sir, you must live in this McMansion, its historical, and here's Sgt Housekeeper, Sgt Cook, and Sgt Errand Boy. And then you got assholes that take the flag role and run wild with it. Imagine hiring the Efficiency Expert Bobs to justify each flag's staff, house, personnel, etc. Most would end up back in FGO/Col housing, told to drive their own car and mow their own lawn. DOGE'd.

Why would Israel do that? When you have terrorist living football fields away from your citizens you don’t just tuck tail.

Yeah, we took our First Sergeant (medical I believe) to an Ex with a stop in Pattaya. Dinner on the outskirts of walking street - she about had a heart attack. This was after her perplexity that we didn’t use rank on the airplane. Truly different worlds we live in. Flight doc though? Took a shower in the airline club.

Changing Big Pharma is like moving the moon. From firsthand experience, the money and lobby influence pharma has, it gets the job done, and it ain't changing anytime soon. Trump can try all he wants, they'll maneuver and still come out on top. Me, I'd start with banning all drug commercials. And then fuck with their execs, taxes, etc.

This reminds me of a few experiences (absolute fucking retards) in my AF career

I sense an important point here. What is it?

At bare minimum it'd be easy to say to the pharmaceutical companies they cannot charge the US more than the lowest price they sell their drug for in any other country. Not a price control. Just a balancing of the scales and an evening out of the "markets." Wanna sell your drug for .15/pill in Zimbabwe? Cool with us. That's our price too. The differential price structure is what's fucked. It allows triangulation of the American taxpayer via the mechanism of Medicare, Medicade, and all our other socialized healthcare. I get to work everyday and pay a lot of taxes at the threat of gunpoint for the privilege of lining these massive drug companies' pockets so they can deliver "healthcare." If anyone thought this was a free market, they were consuming mushrooms.

Touché… and sad to hear. Although it shouldn’t, I guess it depends on who you work for 😢

Shiiitttt, this guy hasn’t been TDY almost anywhere. He’d have an aneurism if he went to SE Asia or Eastern Europe.

I’m definitely interested in how this pricing plan plays out.. it’s definitely an unusual approach. Hope it works out.

The PSDM has the nomination process. Had a buddy get denied from applying with 1.5 years TIS and 11 months TOS, just an FYI.

Probably right Flew the -8 MAX, it’s a good jet, not a Bus but good, good high hot takeoff performance, landing is ok, give the right seat a HUD and tiller if Big Blue buys Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Clearly the author has never been TDY to Romania or Pattaya…..

My theory is nationalized health care systems could not afford or would not pay what U.S. health care insurers would pay so pharma would price gouge in the U.S. because they could. How the drug pricing settles out with leveling the playing field will be interesting.

If they are going to set the price of the drug, that's bad. Price controls are never a good thing. But if they are going to establish rules by which pricing must be fair across trading partners, that's an entirely different thing altogether. This is a perfect example of how other countries take advantage of the United States by methods other than tariffs. We don't participate in the same sort of fuck fuck games, so using tariffs as a retaliation are a simple way to make the problem go away.

I think the universal reaction to seeing a dude butt flash is 'aw man, I didn't need to see that, you got me." Or something like that. The fact the reprimander (Forest Gump?) chose to call it sexual misconduct, leads me to think they were aroused. Maybe is was a lady butt. Butt most likely, I'm guessing the flasher is a troublemaker and paper is being generated for their tossing. Nonetheless, shockered, I am.

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Come on brother...you are smart and there are better ways to make an actual point about economic policy. Think critically...this is a FAR more complicated issue than Communist price control. This is more about trade and ending a sweet heart deal the Pharmaceutical industry has had for FAR too long. It is not a free market when the rest of the world limits the price and the only "free" market is in the U.S. The United States represents 4% of the world's population but we generate 66% of the profit in the pharmaceutical industry. The high price of new drugs has always been falsely explained as the cost of research...true or not it is now time for the rest of the world to share in that development cost.

PSDM 25-44 (the pdf is posted towards the beginning of the thread) has some of the answers you’re looking for. Do you have your letter of recommendation and personal letter drafted as well? And have you talked to your leadership about your interest in applying?

At the bro level, we have been talking a lot about what could replace the C-40 and C-32 as they start to get long in the tooth. Apparently, Boeing originally had an idea for a 787-300 that the Japanese wanted for short dense inter-island flying and it would have been the basis for the 787 BBJ as well. The real big issue is the foot print of a 787, be it a fictional -3 or a real -8/9/10, is way bigger than a 757 or 737. We are talking an extra 70 feet of wing let alone PCN issues. Airport flexibility goes way down, hell, we already sank a C-32 into the pavement at MDW because of a PCN being wrong in the Giant. A 787 wouldn't even be able to land at MDW, let alone park. I fear the MAX9 or 10 is really the only replacement for the C-32 and it simplifies crewing because it's a shared type. But it will come with a performance and capability hit. Best to bring it online right as we change administrations so there isn't any growing pain...like that'll ever happen.

Yeah, for the survivability and other requirements i don’t know of exactly I can see the quad being preferable, might not be required but as 747s are available here we go… Split the mission double the bill and make several CODELs happy 😉 747s for overseas and 787s for domestic / near abroad