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oh good, this threads getting political too.

Passing students who meet standards? That's horrible! Or did you mean to write something different?

I think it has something to do with general work ethic. We have had the same lady work at the front of the simulator building for probably 20 years and she generally has a pretty decent read on all the students. She was talking to a few IPs and mentioned how she's noticed a significant decrease in practice time that studs are putting in when they're not hard scheduled when compared with just five and ten years ago. That being said, I do think the students have more to learn than I did only seven years ago. Most of my A/A syllabus was notch-to-defend with a brief into into drag. For PGMs I had one flight devoted to GBU-12s and 38s. They're introduced to significantly more than I was at the same point in my career.

CAFB 18-06 Drop T-1: C-17 McChord C-130J Little Rock CV-22 Cannon KC-135 AL ANG C-130J Yokota U-28 Hurlurt KC-135 Kadena KC-135 McConnell T-6 FAIP Columbus C-130J Ramstein KC-135 Fairchild WC-130J Keesler C-21 Ramstein B-52 Barksdale T-38: F-16 TBD B-52 Barksdale F-15C Kingsley Field T-6 FAIP Columbus EC-130H Davis-Monthan F-16 TBD F-16 TBD

Up hill BOTH WAYS!

Great what could possibly go wrong? I can’t get out of T-6 land soon enough.

Government funded/sponsored? Hell no...

Wouldn’t hold your breath...joint spouse

barron gets it wrong still unfortunately ;\

I’ll be there!

Students have always been terrible. The difference is whether or not you can wash them out. That pendulum swings. And the quality of the end product swings with it

This thread is really funny to me for the simple fact that you know new guys sucking isn’t a new phenomenon, right? When we were going through, I’m sure the IP’s were saying how terrible we were compared to them and how easy we had it.

Someone get your boy in check. The parade is on, boys. Gotta stroke that ego. Fiscally responsible my ass. The wasted money in manhours and logistics alone... https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/trump-military-parade-veterans-day-423405

I thought that program was called IFT (Initial flight training). When DOSS took over, it went back to being called IFS (initial flight screening).

Had a bit closer look at the stats, and if I'm reading them right, the AF has given up on trying to retain 11Ms. Running the numbers paints a pretty dismal picture: - Per CH's posted slide deck, the AF projects losing 933 11Ms from their inventory over the next 5 years (from substantial surplus to substantial deficit)--an average loss of 187/yr - IAW the 1400/yr plan, apparently 640 UPT grads/yr will go to mobility cockpits - If we produce 640/yr, but the inventory drops 187/yr, that means 827/yr (11Ms alone) will separate, retire, get promoted to O-6, or be grounded/die/etc. -- From FYs 15-17, the 11M community only lost about 440/yr to seps/retirements/O-6 promotion/grounding/etc (with just 215 of those being folks who separated) - Problem is, there ain't that many 11Ms approaching retirement/their O-6 boards (force shaping & a-word hiring took care of that), and it's unlikely there'll be a huge spike in folks getting grounded/dying off (one hopes) - The upshot is this: the Air Force seems to be planning on three times more 11Ms separating (not staying to retirement/not competing for O-6) than in the prior three years. This is going to decimate a mobility pilot community that's already on the ropes. I'd say 11Ms are very aware of their marketability. The weird thing is, the Air Force is tacitly acknowledging this, yet is doing nothing to stop the hemorrhaging. Crappy quality of life, plus AF leadership that doesn't seem to care about their plight--seems like a winning combination. TT

Oh yes Gen Grosso's genius I forgot about the missing retention survey... That girl's a real gem.

Jimmy Kimmel crying does.

You can be cool with abortion and gay marriage and still think that safe-spaces are retarded. Nothing inherently binds you to blindly follow a single party's doctrine.

I like to post this "fact checker" whenever the real gray beards start opining about their "50% washout rates when I went through UPT in (insert timeframe here)."

Cool, no more lawyers please.

LOL. Don't forget, "Thank you for your service." This killed me.

Reminds me when Larry got fatwa'ed: NSFW

I much preferred the days when Academy staff used macroaggressions to show cadets what worthless maggots they were enroute to earning a commission and respect.

I can already picture someone half-heartedly chanting this at a CC call

To win a war against Russia, we must first win the war against Earth's climate. Sounds reasonable.

I found a problem with your plan.

Second time someone has asked if said dude is from Dyess, seeing a pattern here..