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Ahh gotcha. That's not how I feel about my current students since I started this job; to me, they have deficiencies based on the changes going on in UPT/IPT/whatever the artist formerly known as SUPT is. Most of them have good attitudes and are hungry; it's just the AF isn't training them properly and getting them right type/quality of training. And in all honesty in the 2-3 years before I retired I felt like my last squadron (anecdotal to be sure) was winning the CP lottery; we had a preponderance of strong swimmers with only 1-2 average/below average guys/girls. Changes to how communities are doing business shouldn't be surprising given the product that AF Pilot Training (and in many cases the FTUs) are producing. Students are getting less time/experience in both, which translates into more risk assumed by the line Sq/CCs. In most cases, the AF/MAJCOMs aren't giving said commanders additional resources to make up the gap, hence restrictions on certain training/maneuvers. I'm not saying that its the correct answer (at least at the AF level) but it's understandable given the shortfalls going on in the training pipelines.

Guy in my class did basically the same thing, did a Masters via AFIT civilian program then spent all of a few months at his actual first unit before coming to UPT, so it is possible. However it is ultimately up to the board if you get selected or not.

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Gotcha Kinda sorta this idea is for the MAJCOMs (heavy operators) to push back on AETC and get them to quit min running it or establish their own post-UPT programs and pre-FTU programs You (AETC) are not just gonna send us pilot with little multi engine time / training to fly a 75 million dollar Herc for example, you’re gonna put more into it sts… this list of events in a multi engine trainer, light twin if the AF is that cheap / broke… X flight hours, X landings, X GAs, X OEI approaches, X IAPs, X formation rides, etc… in a multi engine aircraft before you are accessed into an AMC, AFSOC, AFGSC, etc training program You could get granular on all the events but I’d try to keep it reasonable. Probably 10-12 tracked events / task items.

I believe that's how it was done at least once the changes to UPT started being made initially. When I went through recently, you needed an event graded to a fair/good/excellent depending on the phase you were in plus every X amount of rides you had to reaccomplish that event. If you were good at some things and worse at others, you could spend fewer rides doing the stuff you were good at and move the amount of rides for that block to a different part that you were weaker on so you could get more experience and practicing with whatever it was that you sucked at.

Yes, but most of the stories are anecdotal “new pilots suck!” Which everyone has said since forever. The change in how the slicks do business is actual change in how we operate as a result of new pilots sucking after pilot training.

Reading some of the comments above and some googling of thoughts on the 1500 hour rule for an ATP certificate, maybe what we should think about for UPT (heavy tracked mainly) is an events / proficiency demonstrated in X number of events / checkrides approach to checkmate those trying just say well, they got X number of hours, passed X number of rides and checked successfully in the T-6 and their GA training aircraft so they’re good together go. You could say that you kinda get that done now by ensuring X hours of training but it’s possible half of that is just at single ship cruise and doesn’t capture, record, track the percentage of their training hours that the student is actually training vs straight level 1 g point to point. If AMC, AFSOC, etc… is noticing training deficiencies / difficulties with new students at FTUs, this might be a more concrete way to push back on AETC’s latest iteration of flight training. Seems like there might be data out there to support what is sensed / observed about the guys that got shortchanged Events in a new multi eng trainer or training program(s)

You mean, kinda similar to my initial post on the topic quoted below? I think we’re in violent agreement here.

We can argue about the right way to teach assault landings. My point was things were mostly fine until UPT started changing, then the rash of hard landings followed by limitations placed on our new pilots. I feel like the quality of FP is linked to the UPT issues, and it’s showing in a lot of ways. This was the most obvious example I’ve seen so far.

Somebody gets it

Oldie but a goodie. On a related note and also bears repeating. I've never seen a jet get a DUI.

SECRET//REL BASEOPS LOL.

No Dibs on that crazy thing!

This is how these idiots (Texas Democrats) think... Dem Star Jasmine Crockett Says She Deserved Oversight Committee Top Spot Due to Large Social Media Following Crockett, who reportedly keeps a headshot of herself as her phone lock screen, originally pitched herself to Democrat Maxine Dexter of Oregon in a private meeting where she declared that the Democrats had a problem with communication while insisting that the American people seemed unaware of the fact that Joe Biden was “an old man that gets shit done.” “Crockett highlighted her own emphasis on social media, and the hundreds of thousands of views she had received on a recent YouTube video. ‘The base is thirsty. The base right now is not very happy with us,’ Crockett continued, and if any lawmaker could make them feel heard, ‘it’s me,'” The Atlantic wrote of her pitch. Crockett tried to stop The Atlantic from probing further after she learned the reporter had reached out to several of her Democrat colleagues for statements.

Houston. Nothing else needs to be said. It's a swamp that needs to be drained as much as Washington, DC! But she later apologized, which makes everything OK. Of course, she claims the redistricting is "Trump's attempt to disenfranchise Black and Brown people." To quote Governor Abbott, "If the House Democrats who deserted Texans were serious about delivering results, they would come back to the Texas Capitol and do the job voters elected them to do!" Here's the background... The newly proposed map increases the number of congressional districts that would have voted for Trump by at least 10 percentage points by five. Republicans currently control 25 of the state's 38 Congressional districts. The new map makes some big changes in North Texas. It moves Democrat Rep. Marc Veasey’s district from Tarrant to Dallas County, Democrat Rep. Julie Johnson’s district moves from Dallas and Collin County to more conservative sections of East Texas, and Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Dallas seat becomes one of just two majority Black districts in the entire state. The Democrats claim the redrawn maps will violate the federal Voting Rights Act, but that may be difficult for them to prove. In Central Texas, Democrats Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett would find their districts vastly different from the current map. The district currently held by Casar would no longer include Travis County, while the district held by Doggett would no longer include a portion of Williamson County. In Houston, the new map reshapes four currently Democrat-held districts. The biggest change to the districts would be in the seat currently held by Rep. Al Green. The new map would shift the district from covering southern Harris County and instead move it to the eastern part of the county. Abbott said he will continue to call for indefinite special sessions until the matter is resolved. He and Attorney General Ken Paxton have also filed lawsuits to vacate seats of absent Democrats.

If you are constantly portraying your political opponents as Nazis, why not compare all of their actions to the actions of the Nazis?

There is further reporting on this which I am working to get released at this level...

Had a CA telling SEA stories from the 80s - if those statute of limitations expired, then so can yours! Though I still recommend avoiding them with your employer’s CVR in the mix.

WTF?

If I had to guess the whole point is to "traumatize" certain populations long after a particular party/administration has left office and no longer has direct decision making authority. Policies often change but the bad taste of how people are treated can last a long time in the mind of potential recruits. It can make certain demographics second guess going into the military in the first place. The lesson is your career can be taken even years later on the whim of leadership.

Counting illegals is not really an error or mistake if you’re looking to get them on the voter rolls. Sounds like they did a bang up job.

That’s 100% valid! Could be. Sucks for them if true.

Yeah, you're not gonna live that down..