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All bitches, dudes, bros, FGOs and wiggers go back to your corners. cantfly is in time out, redirect all bitching towards the AF.

People that know real things know they cannot brag about it, you under estimate most of us.

I think evidence of risking one's professional advancement to do the right thing should be required. Looking into flag officers generally regarded as "great:" As a captain, MacArthur had his first Medal of Honor denied because his boss didn't know what he was doing. As a captain, Eisenhower was threatened with court martial for aggressively advocating tank-centric tactics that looked a lot like Germany's successful blitzkreig scheme. Nimitz was court-martialed as an ensign for running his ship aground. George Washington gave advice to his general in the French and Indian War that essentially got him killed. Mistakes and risks are what make a leader better, and should be forgiven (when they aren't crimes, of course), and rewarded (when appropriate). Most importantly, they should be learned from.

Uh he's gonna have to be in a vault to say his quals.... he knows ts info guys. This is a big deal.

Are you retarded? You clearly know zero about tac airlift or anything for that matter. Go with quals, besides the NSA d*** measuring; or do us all a favor and STFU

Not me! I'm pretty stupid. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Dude, it all makes perfect sense. You just need to spend some time in the NSA vault in Maryland.

I didn't think "get into the vault" could be trumped but this post does it

Toro incoming...

Not a bad article, similar to points made in other articles but cracking the edifice of stagnation, stubbornness, delusion and intransigence will take multiple hammer blows of common sense arguments, data and public humiliation of AF HR management of late. Would have added to his Root Causes: The AF went expensive on the planes, cheap on Airmen; pitting human capitol for machine capitol. An apples for oranges trade that made multiple problems (cultural, force structure, loss of institutional respect/trust, etc...).

Classified Sword fight!!!!! 🤺 Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

I don't think anyone has any idea what you're talking about anymore.

Naw man, just group execs? Obviously they weren't tier one. Maybe if they were wing execs! Better yet, aide-de-camps. I mean that's what the Air Force values these days.

A sample of guys that "did fairly well" among how many peers who followed a similar path and did not do so well?

"Traditionally" is probably correct. However, we had a few U-2 guys years ago do it successfully. Two were DG's out of F-16 RTU, did real well, and made a good name for themselves. Another went to F-117's after being a B-52, KC-10, and U-2 guy. Less than 2 years there, he wins the Nighthawk Trophy as the top F-117 pilot in their fleet-wide competition. It depends on the person.

I feel like you may be my kindred AF spirit.

I remember when I got my TS... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

It's all a test to see how those 8 will do. Judging by how AMC defines "success" I expect around 4-6 Gp Execs get slotted for this and the program ends up crashing and burning just like all the higher ups are hoping it will. But at least they can say "we tried!" Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Fucking youngins, no ability to take criticism or jokes. I don't care what you do, just laugh.

Your life will be sad, you will cry into your wine cooler while watching old episodes of Sex in the City with your boyfriend, living as the small spoon every night. You will not be respected due to your engineering job and all of the drama in the workplace from that job, your life will suck. The Prius in your driveway or the sustainable non-GMO, conflict free, gluten free, free range organic dinners you eat every night will not bring you joy. For fuck sake......buck up and enjoy the journey, your in for a hell of a fun ride. Enjoy it, and never look back, you will see and do things you never thought possible.

I know the BLUF emails get hate on here. But having to deal with the current crop of Maj-Cols (sometimes 1-stars) and (MSgts-E9) that won't just get to the point, I understand why they now exist. So many "Commanders" want to have a discussions about a problem and solution they're not going to own any part of. So, we've got to sit there for 40 min while they hash it out, talking past each other with no resolution but tons of quibbling and requests for guidance, prioritization and pointing out where provided written guidance is lacking. Ugh, I hate this job. I told you guys our "cyber operators" get crew rest for a 5 hour sortie, right? I generally just tell my Airman to give me the information in tweet length and problem solved.

I was hired help at AFSOC A5 ("duties at"...which is another point of contention) but now me and 4 of my recent school grad buddies are all doing BS jobs at a "staff" (quotes intentional). GFM, force disposition, regional country plans, GSOS, general horse buggery, etc...great way to utilize the talent of a group of dudes with 20K+ flight hours (half or more combat I'm sure). We've done maybe a few things that have required any air expertise let alone SOF air expertise. "Is this thing on????" tap tap tap, "hello USAF, you're sending a mixed message!" How bout give us a few LAAR at staff and we'll shop them around to partners of choice (godammit, hate that term) while moving about our AOR. Plus it has the added benefit of me not wanting to swerve my car into oncoming traffic every morning...just sayin'! cooter

Knew two OGs that were former herbs. Both did plenty well, both IP/SEFEs; one spent time at the FTU and didn't seem to have any trouble greening up his IP qual from stints at school and staff.

I may be the only one of this mindset, but does anyone here really care to set foot in that building? If there isn't a single person with a flight suit running around, there isn't a single reason I want to be in there.

Huh? You mean like FAIPS?

Because it shows a lack of honesty on some of the more interesting things RPAs have been doing recently and are doing right now. There is plenty going on right now today with drones and other tools that resembles far more closely the scary scenarios than the permissive scenario of putting a predator orbit over a mud hut in Afghanistan for days on end. Everybody wants to scream "RPAs aren't mature for the near peer fight" well after 15 years of coin-centric warfare neither is probably 60% of the military. The Army has only just been getting its shit in a sock to do Brigade level maneuver warfare again. I've been in units where my senior NCOs don't know how to put up a GP medium because up until now they've never had to. But if you or others want to sit here and pretend that the RPA structure from tactical to strategic is just gonna throw up it's hands and say "we can't play" either you're inventing a scenario that doesn't exist or ignoring the laundry list of other systems/players/platforms that are going to be just as screwed or have to work around just as many issues in the nightmare worst case WWIII fight.

RPAs are great for terrorist. They have yet to be truly tested against a real adversary's military that can actually counter our punches. Operation Allied Force... cough..cough

I was looking at some AFPC slides regarding selection for 365s. They look at the following: STRD, number of short tours, prior time puts you out of your year group, and TAFMSD.

Never knew 17D_guy was a General type! Ha, classic mixup!

I loved this thread and it's time for the newbies to read it and have fun. It is also time for the cutting room floor stuff to come to light!

I think we're at 2 now?

Name change. HPO is now HIPO or HiPO or even Hipo will work. The imagery in my mind as you all mention one was too corollary. You're welcome. Out.

The original Hawg going old school medieval on jihadists. I give it two tusks up!

I am the photographer who took this photo. I took the bridge photo and as I turned to walk away, I heard the planes come behind me. I ran and grabbed another lens to shoot the planes. This is two layers, but nothing is shopped as far as the distance between the planes. I am an amateur photographer who was enjoying a day at the beach. It was a complete coincidence. I also happen to have a husband who worked at Beale on the U2, and I was a civilian employee there, so I knew exactly how unique and amazing the opportunity was to see these two side by side. They were doing a PR shoot that day which is why there were two. My husband shared the photo on the Dragon Lady fan site and the pilots requested a copy of the photo from me. They were fully aware this was two layers, no secret to anyone. :) Here is another photo with the planes closer together. This is a RAW image with no retouching.

In the WTF thread for... lots of reasons. If you thought the movie was awful, watch the theme song video... Iron Eagle never say die by King Cobra.

Does it still suck in every aspect, just like it did years ago when I went? My favorite memories are probably all of the lining up at the dining hall to try and hit your TOT +/- like 1 minute, or whatever it was. And getting smoked by instructors all along the walk through the quad and while trying to eat. Good thing I was a quick eater, but one dude on my flight was not, and he literally lost like 10 pounds in the first two weeks (due to some of the exercise too, I am sure, but he never came close to finishing a meal).

I do t k ow why you would need that or all this other access. According to him all you need to do is grow up "next too" an Army base and you'll know all the details of how Attack Aviation works and it's shortcomings. That's how despite no actual experience I know how to assemble a GMC Sierra pickup. There was a GM plant in the town I grew up in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know of two Wing Commanders who were Heavy to Fighter, but that was a different Air Force. The fighter WG/CCs and fighter porches can't even take care of their own guys who are punching left and right after sh!t deal after sh!t deal gets handed to them. How much do are they going to take care of a heavy guy who they don't even really want. Be realistic people. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

So what? I wasn't even a pilot when OAF kicked off in the late 90s. However, I was doing intel at a certain federal agency. Talk to an old intel troop with knowledge about the operation or go to a vault and garner some SA on the subject. Those guys were well trained and took down an F-117. It wasn't luck...

I keep hearing that. So what?

A man speaking the truth...word.