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Hey all I have been lurking for months but had issues making an account. My wife is the MPF Commander and I can confirm the list has dropped!!! I am a RPA select! Top of her head quotas were Pilot:45, RPA:51, CSO:10, ABM:20 Best of luck all!

Happy Release day Good luck everyone. 🤞

Old recycle, but always a good one.

Really good to see all the hiring boards popping up on Bogidope again. Everyone can dust the covid cobwebs off the resumes

I'll run my generator on used oil from KFC, when they smell the exhaust they will get hungry. Then I will sell them fried chicken which I'll conveniently have in my truck. Oh wait, if they're driving an electric car they're probably vegan.

Checkmate VIDEO: Cop plays Beatles' 'Yesterday' while cellphone camera records him, presumably to trigger copyright claim so clip is blocked - TheBlaze

My understanding is that AFPC has been primarily teleworking since the pandemic basically began. Which in turn, would mean the main issue may be that there's no power for those teleworking from home. Imagine telling your grandkids that your ability to become a pilot was pushed off first by a pandemic, then by a snow storm in Southern Texas.

As I said, "but otherwise legally armed." His weapon and his ID were co-located, which he expressed. I went back and re-watched the video, for whatever reason I thought he had said that, but didn't see it. I don't think he is guilty of murder. I think he could have led that situation to a better outcome. My personal opinion is as an armed agent of the state, that is his responsibility. I understand that the law doesn't support my opinion, it is just my opinion. Castile clearly fucked up by not telling the cop where his wallet was located. He could have done better to not get himself killed, but he is not an armed agent of the state. I get that it's a hard job and their life is potentially on the line, I get that demanding perfection is unrealistic. I get that cops are not evil assholes trying to fuck up people's lives. But they are armed agents of the state, they should have a higher level of responsibility. Officer safety has been used as rationale for changes that help cops and not the public for a very long time. I've seen the attitude among family and friends that are police officers.

So close you can almost taste it. I think I preferred knowing it wasn't out yet!! As opposed to it being out, but not being able to reach it. I bet I've emailed my commander so many times he's auto sorting my emails into the trash lol.

The PSDM was released to all MPFs today at noon. There was a delay of a few hours due to the power outages across San Antonio.

Somebody's not thinking

Some intel for y’all. Looks like AFPC is making progress despite the storm.

Was afraid of that... @URTHopeful2021 and I have hit them up on the portal and by email on whether the list still went out, whoever gets word first will post for the greater good (the greater gooooood) soon as we know

Sure, power companies could be hesitant to fire up excessive capacity to keep the profit margins up (wind is kinda free, vs coal or nuclear have a cost associated with increasing output). But ignoring that, you can only transmit so much power along a line. Try to pull too much power, and then stuff starts breaking and making the problem worse (hence the outages when demand looks like it's going to exceed capacity). So then it becomes a jigsaw puzzle to figure out how to route power from backup sources to where it's needed, and ensuring that at every point along the way you aren't exceeding capacity. While operating on aging infrastructure. Keeping the windmills going keeps more capacity on line, and reduces load across the system since more sources of power are available to feed the system. Put those two issues together, and without government forcing power companies to make improvements, or provide certain levels of power, it can be easy (and financially advantages) to make no improvements. Without regulations, there's no repercussions for failure. You also have to reduce demand. But people stuck inside are likely to use their electronic devices and entertainment centers to stay entertained, maybe run electric heaters and lights (who has candles these days?), and maybe continue to telework and live normally until power is shut off. So how do you get people to turn off their TV so people a few neighborhoods down don't get cut off from power? (COVID and the response to wearing masks makes me think this is pretty much impossible) And that also ignores improvements to infrastructure for protect against EMP or solar flares/CMEs. The Carrington event (1859) is an interesting example of what could happen to electronics with a major solar flare (in that event, it was mainly telegraph lines and equipment affected), and we had a near miss back in 2012. Basically, any long wire is an antenna, and strong magnetic fields (like from extreme solar flares) can induce large currents into anything connected to that wire, potentially damaging or destroying it. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/08/carrington-event-warning/

Your transformation to Immorten Joe is complete.

I'll always support Kinzinger over the spoiled drunk that's never had a day in his life where he had to be accountable for his actions. Sent from my SM-N975U using Baseops Network mobile app

Man, I think it’s been three years or better since I’ve looked at Baseops. Almost Five years since I retired. Since everything went crazy, I found myself wondering what the BO crowd was saying.Tonight, I finally looked. I’ve read through a few threads, and must say...I am still impressed by the level of discussion here. Y’all are awesome. And also, thanks to Congressman for standing up for what he believes is right. Takes some nuts. Props to y’all for great discussion as well. Quality people here, man. Proud to have served with most of ya!

It’s like people forget that we’re a Republic.

Yeah but the question is how much internal resistance and manufacturing complexity the power company is willing to take on to mitigate a once in a decade storm. My bet is not much. They'll apologize and give a few superficial refunds and the same shit will happen 10 years from now. The key with renewables is the energy storage technologies need to be seriously improved. This will help not only catastrophic snowstorm recovery, but also routine power demand at peak hours if it happens to not be all that sunny or windy.

I asked if it would be out today, he said not sure but probably not. SA has lots of outages right now

Called it.

My money is on it being an AFPC issue as my MPF here in sunny Tampa has not seen anything yet today.

Do you think that if they can't see it by now, it's probably a no go for today? My hope was that it's automated at this point, but the two possible lynch pins I can surmise at this point would be AFPC and then at least my local MPF. Since both are closed, and most of San Antonio is without power which in turn compromises teleworking... Meh. Let's hope it's automated!

Negative on list confirmation - my commander notified me he's looked as well, but hasn't seen anything. Full disclosure - my city is effectively shut down from the weather. If at this point any part of the process is reliant on our MPF, I wouldn't expect to see it myself. Now, if someone else got it and took a looksie for me...

I have been bothering my leadership too much, so i was going to send one message at COB

Sounds like a nightmare. Hope your damage is limited. Regardless, if your wife is anything like mine, you’re going to be hearing about how things only go wrong when you’re on the road for a long, LONG time! 🤣

I think you've got it backwards. The identity and mindset existed first, which led to accepting military service as necessary for their survival, and not military service inspiring identity. I don't think mandatory service drives their identity. They've had to fight for their country and culture to survive for a long while, and have faced attacks and occupations (mainly from Japan, but also the communists) that galvanized who they saw themselves to be. They also have a real threat on their border that drives a sense of responsibility to their country, which I believe makes them accepting of national military service. Plus many of them remember what Japan did too the last century as well. There is also the drive to reunify families turn apart by the north/south split, but that's facing fast as the generation old enough to have ties across the border are dying off. So the factors that make national military service tolerable in Korea don't seem to apply to the US.

Bode, regardless of what you choose, I’ll say you were one of the best bosses I’ve worked for! If you stay in, the AF will be better for it man!

Brother you need a side business, it looks like the situation is so bad at Cannon the Wing/CC has authorized the folks in Chavez to get rooms downtown on the government dime. We spent a lot on the infrastructure and it failed again (I think I know the who and why). When I was there they were still talking about the last grid failure and how ACC neglected the base. The main bar connecting offbase power to the Cannon grid failed, it was stamped 1949! Eight years and $1.2 billion later and the grid has collapsed again. CE got some splaining to do...

Until your orange orange turns into a purple orange... Got curious and Google did not disappoint! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-26/science-reveals-why-orange-turned-purple-overnight/10230418

What if they write a strongly worded letter !

This is a pretty interesting problem to solve in the to move towards relying on wind/solar power as a primary means of power. Not sure spraying de-ice or anti-ice fluid on windmills is practical or environmentally friendly. Maybe electrically heated blades? But probably too expensive to implement for the once in decade ice storm, unless power companies are required to implement something. In the meantime, probably pays to have a home generator for emergencies.

I can throw my diesel generator in my truck and drive around charging people for charging(yuk yuk) their cars. Future business venture.

One important fact is that the police officer in this case, was in fact indicted, and sat before 12 citizens who judged him in a trial. 12 people who were vetted by both the prosecution and defense for the ability to be objective, saw ALL the evidence in the case, and heard both stories. Then, all 12 unanimously decided this officer was not guilty based on EVERYTHING we knew about the event, and acquitted him. That's a pretty big deal in my opinion.

He was not legally armed. It is illegal to carry a firearm while under influence of drugs. Castile said he had a weapon and then reached for it despite being told not to.

He wouldn't have died had he not been struggling. He was complaining about not being able to breathe WELL before Chauvin was kneeling on the back of his neck (not his windpipe). Chauvin was also acting IAW department policy. The length of time could point to excessive force, but Floyd died because of Floyd's poor life choices. I don't think cops are perfect. I think you're caught up in the emotion and slurping the bullshit that the media is feeding you.

I echo the sentiment of wanting the truly priviledged and connected to have skin in the game, sometimes they do but most of the time of late not. I don't think that could ever be done, legally, however they could at least feel the financial cost of it and that might give pause to them. An adjustable marginal tax rate applied to the highest income bracket to pay for all overseas military operations and logistics might cause the ruling classes to be more careful about writing checks for other bodies to cash. Concur it would not be perfect but something would be better than nothing methinks. I'm more inclined though to say military service or no program. Don't have a beef with those pursuits (peace corps, ccc, etc...) but part of this is indoctrination of a sorts, whose doctrine is always the question but American indoctrination in this case. I concede in advance the unease anyone could have at that but I think something is in order. There is something character building about suffering, struggle and then improvement leading to success and accomplishment. I see more than a few young people in my orbit and in larger society that are not getting that necessary phase in their lives to achieve maturity. COVID, the rise of Wokeism, the general denigration of meritocratic ideals and physically competitive pursuits, etc... are all playing a part in this loss of forging those ready to work, fight and lead. I see a mass surge of military service as a potential antidote. How it could be done and not totally disrupt or backfire into resentment of the people we want to win their hearts and minds back to America is the question...

I can but being that my primary post retirement plan is airlines I will be 3 years out of an aircraft (most likely). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh man. It's a shame those airline interviews treat your baseops.net reputation as important as your flying hours. You need at least 1500 likes I hear to even get in the door. 😂

Careful, last time I called him out he went and found my last 18 posts and down voted all of them, lol.

stop posting your trolling Shazaam shit in irrelevant threads?

But that’s fundamentally NOT what/who we are. It’s like saying you want a purple orange to eat. Great. But you’re going to get an orange orange.

Blah blah blah. Repeal the 17th amendment. Popular vote of senators is dumb.

Yes. Locations: only ops base right now is Hill. Eielson is opening next. Lakenheath, Tyndall(?), others timeline TBD. FTU primarily at Luke with some training at Eglin still. The jet is awesome. The mission sets and tactics are constantly evolving. The community is a blend of F-16 and F-15E mindsets, with a hint of F-22 and A-10. Overall, its a great place to be, with lots of growth (and growing pains) in the years to come. Deployments: Yes, there will be. They'll be 6 months long to places you don't really want to go. Also lots of TDYs coming up. Fighter community standard. From what I've seen, B-course slots are limited (and there's only one place for them to go), but that will change quickly as the community grows. What else can I help with?

Ok, you asked. Fedex 777. Mission is to make the company billions and for me grab some of the crumbs to the tune of $250K a year as a co-pilot(First Officer). Typically work 12-14 days per month either all at once with the rest of the month off or week-on, week-off. Much of that work time is soft time (i.e. not actual flying hours). Typically, I'm paid for 80-90 flight hours each month, but it's rare for me to actually have air under my ass for more than 50 hours each month. Since I'm an FO, many trip are as a relief pilot which involves deadheading around the planet in business or first class to various locations where I will meet up with the crew and act as the "free agent" third or fourth pilot on a long haul flight and then part ways. For the last 10 years straight, I've made the highest level in American Airline's frequent flyer program annually and have 1.5 million miles to use for family leisure travel. I can choose how I orchestrate my passenger deadhead flights using the company money available and any extra $$ is available for various travel expenses incurred in conjunction with any trip. Next month, I will be picked up at my house by a limo (paid for by Fedex) and driven to O'hare to begin my journey to Tokyo. My trip is due to start on a Thursday but since I'm not going to follow the deadhead schedule, I will stay home on day one getting paid. Friday, I will fly from O'hare to Tokyo in a lay flat business class seat sipping single malt and maybe catch a movie. From there, I'll take the bullet train to Osaka and have about 48 hours off before I have to work. My only flight on this trip is a 4-hour leg from Osaka to Guangzhou, China. Once I arrive in China, I'm done. I have a quick 12-hour layover and then I'm scheduled for 3 day deadhead sequence to get back to Memphis. Since I don't want to go to Memphis, I'm going to stick with the original plan of a private car driving me to Hong Kong which will get me to my first flight out. Thanks to my frequent flyer status, American has upgraded me from business to first class on my HKG to DFW flight. Once at DFW, I'll hang in the lounge until my flight back to O'hare. Once back to Chicago, another limo will take me home, dropping me off on Wednesday, 5 days after I was picked up. Since I shaved some time off my trip home by deviating, I'll be on the clock for almost 24 hours after I get home. For my trouble, I'll have about 30K more frequent flyer miles and my paycheck will be about $10K fatter (before taxes). Now the rest of the story........ About the time I'm landing in China after the 4.0 from Osaka, my family will be doing the Christmas morning routine. Being an almost empty nester, that's okay and gives someone with little ones a shot at being home. Hardly as noble as it sounds. I'm just a lazy MFer. Getting paid 10-grand to deadhead in style back and forth from Asia so that I can fly a single 4 hour flight is a fair trade off. That trip plus another for the first 6 days of Dec make up my month. So, that's one snap-shot of the Fedex 777 thing. Believe it or not, I've had better months, but this will definitely be a good one. The bad ones can be tough but with a little seniority, the good far outweighs the bad. Our bad doesn't hold a candle to the long days those of you still doing the job for big blue deal with. So, when you decide to bail, come on over - the water's fine. I usually get a paid commute via private car and first class international deadhead every month. There's lots of "Q" in the QOL and I definitely recommend it. Also, WTF is a "stewardess"?

My CC can't see it either. I guess there's always tomorrow..

CLASSIC You clearly aren’t going anywhere, just trying to get others to justify your decision - Stick around as long as you can on the govt teat until they no longer want you, and at that point, you’re done (on their terms). Good luck if that’s 2 yrs or so out and the hiring boom is subsiding. But hey, you can tell everyone who don’t care “I was a commander”. A few gems on here that will not fit your narrative but worth considering. I’ll add my own. 1 - Command is overrated these days 2 - If you are behind the curve on promotions and just “always wanted to make LtCol”, well - you’ll make it and good luck with final 2-3 yrs 3 - The AF doesn’t have you or your families best interest on their radar, they just kinda need you 4 - The AFR and ANG are the best options to open a wealth of opportunities for careers, promotions, and wealth building that you will never know. 05 just to join, 06 if you participate, 07 if you desire to be somebody... In closing - You seem to be risk adverse, so you will do fine right where you are. Best of Luck, the AF preys on the 15-18yr sanctuary dudes..🍺 Footnote: Not a whole lot of financial gain for service years after 20 (of which you can easily gain within AFR/ANG with minimal effort)