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Since vsp has been delayed my tertiary plan to get out moved forward. Win a billion dollars from Warren buffet and establish a conflict of interest. Unfortunately I underestimated Dayton's skills and was out after the first game. It's up to you now AFPC. Though I think my odds were better to win the billion.

I was extremely embarrassed when we did our trade with the Maneuver Captains Career Course and got an Army Infantry Captain. SOS in its infinite wisdom had us making towers out of spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. "Is this what you guys do all the time here?" "Nah dude, last week we played with puzzles and watched a Hollywood movie."

Sad, isn't it?

He got real antsy anytime one of the speakers got anywhere near their 60 minute cutoff and ran up on stage to stop them. Except for the one guy talking about the Tuskegee Airmen...he went well over his 90 minute allotment, and CZ was nowhere to be seen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Isn't VSP really "gambling?" Its applied game-theory at least...

Show-horses, Workhorses and Jackasses. These are the three types of people you have working for you. Show-horses are easy to identify, they are pedigreed, their reports are above the board and they have done no wrong, but at a certain point you can’t prove what they have done right… they have been preened and primped for so long that the next good deal is expected. In a certain amount of your requests to the squadrons for nominations for the next good deal job, there are some that will deliver less than the workhorse. They are the type when handed a shitty deal, will pull stakes and tell you no, because this assignment is beneath me…. The workhorse is the person you want to take note of. This person may be number 3 or 4 on your squadron commander’s list of people they want to see for said good opportunity. They are probably the guys and gals that everyone in the squadrons see as the go-to for when stuff needs to get done, the people that get overlooked because there are a couple show-horses in the way. The often respected and narrowly rewarded workhorse getting rewarded with a good deal usually elicits the following response from squadron mates: “about damn time that guy/gal got a good deal he/she is solid and I know they will work for me up at the Group/Wing etc.” The response when an overtired prima-dona show horse gets an impressive job is usually de-motivating. Seen as a reaffirmation of the status quo. Thus, as a group commander the people who are at the top are there because of past performance but not necessarily recent performance… The challenge is to identify the workhorses who deserve a showhorse treatment and identify the showhorses who need a kick in the ass. Speaking of asses, the jack-ass… causing the often mentioned 95% percent of your time devoted to the 5% causing the problems. It will distract you because you think the other guys, the other 5% who are the show-horses are solving all the problems are good… and carrying your load… it’s not true, at least at the squadron level…

It was shortly after Valentine's Day if not 14 Feb itself. I submitted my VSP application on 13 Feb and I remember it was only a day or 2 after when the rules seem to have totally changed.

So it's 1610 at AFPC, I suppose it's safe to assume we are going into another weekend without a shred of real information about what's going on. I suppose rumor and innuendo will have to sustain us through the next 60 hours. Edit: really don't want to be court martialed for a dumb message board post

Holy ing safety gear.....surprised they didn't pad the walls and put packing peanuts in the tank instead of water. Sledy

Almost worse was the exchange with the NCO academy - our flight had an infantry Marine who'd been to AFG x3 and Iraq x1. If that guy didn't already think 90% of the AF was a bunch of useless asshats, he sure did after that. At least he was smart enough to see there is the other 10%. It was hilarious and embarrassing at the same time to listen to the "analyst" who admittedly worked from home 2 days a week on a normal basis argue how irreplaceable she was and vital to the military, then try to pull rank on the Marine when he respectfully argued nobody is irreplaceable.

Must be an idiot, cannot locate baseops.net app for iPhone in apple App Store, and the pop up that took me to the App Store didn't bring it up either. Can I get a PAR to the app?

Good riddance. What an asshole.

And how exactly are all of these raffles that require you to buy a ticket legal?

...And it was as valid 13 years ago as it is today.

So, how does that set of gambling machines at Ramstein's KMCC keep operating if gambling is illegal on base?

Don't worry about it... Mountain's been shown the door of the bar before. He's used to it.

most test sites will have an E6-B. Most sheppardair students have no need to look at an E6-B...

I see it more at super Sq bases that bend over for TACC, but like someone previously stated, have the ability to say no. Like at a UPT base, if it is going to be thunder-storming or chance of hail for the ENTIRE day, do you know how many CGOs will go wash your car and mow your lawn if you just canx for the day vs have everyone on Wx hold ALL DAY long? Or if TACC keeps sending down short notice taskings or the Wing sets a suspense for yesterday, be able to say NO. It goes hand in hand with creating extra work for no reason. Seen to many times the "What if so and so asked so and so?...Can you develop COAs that answer all the unknown what ifs?" Then these COAs sit in someones email for a couple months, never to be seen again. Too much busy work. Are leaders now empowered by seeing what crazy request they can come up with and how fast commanders say they can get it done? Guess what, it isnt the commanders that are doing the pointless work, the hard working individuals that are already tapped from flying all week and putting together RIF packages now have to drop everything and create ANOTHER COA presentation. Know what problems face commanders and flight commanders. These are your issues too. These are the hurdles you can help with. Have anonymous suggestions. Thats the only way you are going to be able to dispell rumors. You have seen it here with the complaining about how General Officers and the SecAF answer townhall questions, they beat around the bush, say a lot of big words and never really answer the question. Also people are too afraid of retribution, if you want the real story offer many anonymous avenues for feedback.

So in the last 30 minutes (I took a break from hitting "refresh" to get lunch), a 1405 date has appeared in my CDB on vMPF. Not yet time for completely-naked-dancing-in-the-squadron celebration yet, but certainly any one of those seems appropriate.

"Rip-It!" is a required call on the C-17 as a step on the Combat Entry Check.

I used to always drink anything energy, Redbull and Monster were my mains along with 5 Hour Energy. I even had the occasional Rockstar or even (cringe to admit it on a public forum) NOS. I was the chief of squadron safety a few years back when the report came out AF wide that energy drinks are bad. My squadron commander came to me and told me that he didn't want his chief of safety to always be seen with an energy drink in hand and asked if I'd consider drinking coffee. That very day, I went out and bought a coffee maker for my office and my home. Since then, I drink several cups of coffee throughout the day, and usually limit myself to one sugar/caffeine free Monster. Don't know what's worse, but coffee is definitely cheaper.

Yes, my knowledge of totem poles is only Wikipieda deep. Cut and past is easier than typing all that shit out. Oh, and I love the Guard. Why shouldn't each state have it's own independent CAF? We will need it when they come for our guns.

Or because Big Blue thinks we are all essentially the same person with interchangable parts.

Even if it were a real gun, why would that merit calling the cops? Did he pull his tattoo out and threaten anyone with it?

Handing out and you choosing to get on of your own free will are two different things. I was never issued Rip-its on any of my deployments. I was, however, given the option to make a decision like an adult and decide for myself if this was something I wanted to ingest. This is no different than Bloomberg banning large sodas in NY. Idiotic. Just for the record, Pitbull blueberry-pomegranate energy drinks were 10x better than Rip-its; if you could find them.

I agree with you that the AF mission in GWOT is vital and not without risk. I've been on a few sporty ones myself both in Iraq and Afghanistan, but always in the mighty Viper and not in the C model as you assume. Did you see a photo of me in Cosmo or something? Combat loss = directly attributable to the enemy (shot down, crashed while engaging enemy) Number of manned aircraft combat losses in GWOT 2001-2008 = 3 (1 x A-10, 1 x F-16, 1 x MH-53). Not sure how many we've lost '09-present but I'm pretty sure there's a couple more. Source: https://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2009/January%202009/0109world.aspx Number of manned aircraft combat losses in Vietnam 1964-1973 = 2,251 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War Would you really look a Thud or Jolly Green driver from 'Nam in the eye and tell him your missions during GWOT were "intense"? I wouldn't. Combat, real combat, hardens a fighting force and makes it very focused on just one thing: killing the enemy. We are not, despite your objections to the contrary, engaged in this type of combat, nor are we focused on killing the enemy. The Air Force is focused on SAPR, diversity, inclusion, CBTs, SOS, masters degrees, VSP, BRAC, and sequestration. Seriously, go to www.af.mil and you'll see what we're focused on. It's going to take real vision and leadership to regain our fighting focus. Gen. Welsh may be able to swing the pendulum a bit, but he's one of the few that get it and he's having to fight his own people to get it done. I'm incredibly proud to be in the Air Force. But if we're not careful the next war may catch us with our pants down.

Expect an Android app later today. Apple blows donkey dick as far as developers are concerned, so expect a much more redonkulous ETA.

Soon it will be FT by correspondence, before you go in residence.

Pipe down, don't get in the way. Agreed. Glad I checked the ROTC "lounge" for the second time ever.

So to summarize...you're a cadet and you have not yet been to field training, yet you feel confident enough in your vast experience to comment on what it takes to succeed at field training, the purpose of field training, how to prepare appropriately for field training, the appropriate length of field training, who should apply to field training, the true purpose of the GMC program, and what constitutes a "high stress" environment. Did I miss anything?

For all TERA folks: one of our CC's briefed this week that one of their members unexpectedly showed up on a loss roster so the squadron went and asked him what was going on. He had no idea so he called the total force support center and was told that he had been approved for TERA. I know you all will be shocked to learn that he never received any notification from AFPC that he had been approved; so make sure that you're checking on your application weekly with the TFSC.

Mississippi has been keeping people from doing things (Like going to school or voting) for a very long time. They have a lot of practice. I'm just glad that they finally got to use their mad skills on some folks who actually deserved it!

Looking for anyone who may be joining me at Sheppard for ENJJPT this July. I'm not sure our class number...but looks like graduation is slated for Aug 2015.

In a good number of places, especially those without open carry laws, wearing a real gun in that manner could be construed as brandishing a firearm or public menacing depending on local and state statutes. Other element to this is we have no idea what the 911 dispatcher actually relayed from the original report. Look I get 2nd amendment shall not be infringed and all that but seriously it's not like this guy was arrested and charged. Officers went on e side of caution as is trained and standard when a firearm is suspected in any call these days. Would you rather some dispatcher question the report and say "nah doesn't sound valid we don't need to roll a unit." And seriously the guy got a tattoo of a gun so it would look like he had one tucked into his pants. Bitching about this is like being the guy that gets the Hindu symbol that just happen to look like something else at a glance and wondering why everybody assumes your a Neo Nazi.