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News Commentary: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/25/sailors-leaving-navy-over-stress-on-social-issues-/#ixzz2xAoI57ef https://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/26/admiral_we_need_to_talk_officers_white_paper_on_jos_jumping_ship_warns_navys_leader Original USNI Article: https://blog.usni.org/2014/03/20/keep-a-weather-eye-on-the-horizon-a-navy-officer-retention-study The abstract: My highlights: His recommendations follow and are essentially the inverse of the warnings listed above. Foster trust through better and more honest communications, re-instate bonuses for critical career fields/assignments, shifting focus away from administrivia/queep towards the mission, improve transparency and usability of personnel systems, and others. He also recommends some changes to personnel processes regarding promotion and command that I believe are specific to the Navy. In all, this was one of the best papers I've ever read on the topic. You could read the whole thing if you want, but it's about 20 pages, and I think the excerpts above capture everything relevant to the AF.

Did you guys know about this?? I'm SHOCKED!!

Fellow BaseOpers Over the past few months, we have been forced to navigate through some of the roughest waters most of us have ever experienced professionally. We've seen the reputation of our beloved AFPC and America's Air, Space, and Cyberspace missions tarnished because of the extraordinarily selfish actions of officers entrusted with the most powerful personnel center ever devised by man. As you are now learning, the ramifications are dire. Many lives will be permanently changed as a result. But this costly lesson must not be in vain. The lesson? Had just one solitary airman spoken up for integrity, our leadership team would have been able to take action immediately. Tragically, peer pressure and the fear of being an outcast prevailed. As a result, the misconduct had yet to be inadvertently discovered by OSI agents. Think of how different the narrative would be had the silent Airman just come forward. That airman would now be lionized as a hero for casting aside his or her own fear of being made an outcast by a few inadequate peers. That airman would have single-handedly preserved the honor and dignity of AFPC and all the wonderful people who make up this incredible organization. But it didn't happen. Wrong won out over right ... the voice of integrity was silenced ... and the good guy lost at the end of the movie. This is a wake-up call for everyone who has lost their sense of right and wrong, for those who have become cynical and for those indoctrinated by modern society to acquiesce when faced with bad behavior. "All that is necessary for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing." I highlighted this old axiom as the main point of my change of command speech a little over a year ago. I implored our formations of airmen that it never be said of AFPC that "we did nothing" in the face of evil. I can't imagine a more vivid reinforcement of that lesson than what we're going through now. Edited: Just in case you guys/gals haven't read this letter... https://timesfreepress.com/news/2014/mar/27/nuke-missile-base-commanders-resignation-letter/

Is it maybe that no commander gets fired for suicides, yet a bunch of sexual assault/harassment complaints and he would be out like a pair of rims at an LA Dodger's game?

There are like 3 or 4 from my base that are 365 selects....all put in for VSP....I know its just a coincidence but.....makes you wonder So if the RIF portion comes and I have to fill out my retention form and I put something like eat a dick AFPC....what do you think my chances are? I'm thinking I might get promoted and denied.....I feel like Peter from office space....I don't give a rats ass anymore and they just won't fire me...ask yourself is this good for the company......lol

Wow... People commenting on the article are saying what a great leader he was. Can't be that great of a leader if he is blaming "the silent airman" for not speaking up as the reason he had to resign. Dear Col Stanley and other senior managers lurking around, people don't speak up because: 1. They don't trust that you care. 2. They don't trust that you will do the right thing based on the environment you have fostered. 3. # 1 & 2 Wow, just wow. Good guy lost? And the "movie" is over? Whatever dude, get over yourself.

^^We both know you were just looking for an excuse.... FWIW, my PC application has been sitting in the wrong CMS inbox at the Wing for 15 days awaiting signature. When they finally figured it out yesterday, everyone was out of the office for "Wingman Day"....at a fun run, hosting a circle-j*rk, or whatever it is that you do at such things. I was going to go on a throat- punching rampage, but I remembered we have morale shirts and mustaches, so everything must be ok. So I came home, kicked the dog, and yelled at my wife. Good times.

Awesome. Just got the "quit bugging us" message from mypers. I knew it was coming, but still thought "maybe this is it" as I opened the email. I'm going to go choke myself for being stupid now.

I must admit that the longer this thing takes, the more I lose focus on my job/mission. I'm not proud of that fact, but I'm human, and I can also sense how unorganized this slow moving organization is. AFPC has to make some kind of decision soon, because I can't be the only one who feels this way.

Most of the people applying for VSP are probably dudes without a stellar career that have 1-2 years of ADSC remaining and are trying to jump ship before they get a 365 like their peers. 365s are still rolling out at a normal pace, so I don't think it's conscious malice by AFPC...it's just a big dumb animal.

AF bases don't do the testing anymore. It's $140 (With the $10 AOPA discount) to take a CATS/Lasergrade test. And I didn't say I paid the FSDO, I said it's $190 to get your CFI. Since you have to have the MCI to make that happen...

"Or draft, coordinate, and publish a PSDM correctly?" Too soon...

Don't ever go to Vegas...

Or draft, coordinate, and publish a PSDM correctly?

1. Formal dress, and don't forget to attach photo for the board of you wearing it. 2. Yes, you can wear the uniform. You are still "in" the Air Force.

Fair?

//sarcasm// You must be new. //sarcasm off// Once a process like this has the flood gates open, leadership will fight tooth and nail to keep it open. How else will people get combat desk experience if they turn off the 365s? The same thing happened with deployments out of Mildenhall back around 06-08. We started deploying to help out the super tanker wings cuz AFPC couldn't manage the new copilots coming out of UPT. It was only supposed to last for a year or two because we were flying 9+ lines per day with 12 jets. We weren't manned for deployments on top of that but we did it. Can't confirm but I'm assuming they're still deploying. Too many good opr bullets from deploying.... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Man, it's the dregs of the AF over on that Facebook retirements page. It's a goddamn circus over there. Insane people completely obsessed with every detail of every persons scenario hopping to sniff the taint of their own approval some day. 18yr Staffs. All kinds of spouses posting for status on their husbands applications. Officers making asses out of themselves with their real names no less begging and spazzing over not being approved yet. Dudes posting every few minutes asking who got approved. No one reading any of the existing threads, instead starting their own thread to ask yet again if some random afsc has been approved. The af is probably better off without most of these dudes and chicks over there to be honest with you. They've clearly all laid down. Sad and desperate.

Your reading comprehension sucks dude. My post was about a behavior. Your post was about E and O and support officers. Are you high? ETA: Dude deleted his post.