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I was in that same boat...until several conversations with non-college grads who now operate international airliners. We discussed simple things such as supply and demand economics, civics, statistics, basic biology, and even the foundations of what calculus is and how it touches, well, everything...(I get it, that sounds higher level, but explain how you "derive" a solution to someone who hasn't touched math beyond algebra...it's painful...turns out derivation and integration thought processes are kinda handy)...and a load of other subjects that were basic pre-recs at my school. It was honestly saddening. I honestly had to explain the difference between miles-per-hour and kilometers-per-hour to two dudes...I wish I were joking... Am I for everyone going to college? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Are there a LOT of subjects that should be covered and assumed as a baseline for a college education that allow a higher level of social and economic understanding and interaction? Definitely. The current American 'college experience' does not meet that standard. But it should. If for no other reason than the fact that IT SHOULD. University education should STILL be a high standard, and I refuse to let leftist liberal doorknob licking morons debase that standard like they have with every other standard they touch.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year you all. I purposely waited to think about this board until today and was glad to see the projected slots increased. With around 230 applications it's looking like about a third will be selected for UPT. Fingers crossed

Finance, often wrong, never in doubt.

College was taken over and misused by a bunch of unproductive pseudo-intellectuals who figured out the only way their obviously stupid ideas could gain a foothold would be to form indoctrination camps for inexperienced adults. That's probably not surprising to anybody here. But while they were doing so the world changed and the distribution of information was radically redesigned by the internet. While colleges probably could have adapted to this new landscape, they were far more concerned with dogma and societal change. At the same time, the government wildly distorted the economics of education with, go figure, unlimited money. Now the cat is out of the bag as my generation, the millennials, are facing the reality that their degree did not, as they were promised, result in a more lucrative life. It did give many of them an inescapable financial anchor around their neck. The gen Z kids behind them, at least the latter half of the generation, are beginning to reject the system that is quite obviously built on false promises and lies. I suspect at this point it's too late to save the system, and there will be a split. College will return to the playground for the rich and breeding ground for politicians, while everyone else will shift back towards on the job learning, heavily supported by much cheaper and adaptable online courses. We haven't reached the final act yet because the money printing has only just stopped, but when unemployment starts going up and the long due pandemonium from the last 15 years of intentionally blind spending comes due, the idea that middle and lower class kids with no road map for their entire adulthood will just go to six figure institutions to get drunk, fuck, and occasionally sit in a room with 500 other people learning subjects they don't need to know, well that just isn't going to hold when people can't afford it.

If college was what it SHOULD be, I’d encourage my kids to go. But good luck getting college, or even public primary school, to be what it SHOULD be by any means short of “burning the system to the ground and rebuilding from the ashes.” The dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with are college grads and many of my non-degree friends and acquaintances are very smart and capable people. On the whole in my experience, I interact with more dumbasses with degrees than I do without degrees. That’s a sad reality and not what I want, but it is reality.

And most are a result of higher education indoctrination. I swear universities are the reason socialism is becoming “popular”. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I grew up in CT and I vividly remember the whole trial as it was big news and dominated local headlines in the days before the Internet. My old man worked for the Dept of Corrections starting in 1992 until he retired. He worked in “prison industries” where the prisoners would come in and work. His section did computer data entry for the State and other private entities. I’ll never forget him coming home one day early in his tenure with a look of disbelief. He said “remember that guy who put his wife through the wood chipper? He works for me doing data entry.”

That’s in direct contradiction to what Sua posted. Now that I’ve read that, I’d go ask finance to prove in writing why fill-in-the-blank type of orders BAH location is contradictory to those official sources. Maybe they have some exemption somewhere, but I’d at least want eyes on. Too many times I’ve seen Finance, TMO, etc. be confidently wrong.

The app probably hasn’t had an update in long enough that Apple dropped it. They announced the policy a few months back.

College is horse shit - I will actively discourage my kids from going unless they have a specific career goal that actually requires a degree. Quite the opposite mindset from when I was a kid.

They are Leftist seminaries now.

I think I just learned how to murder my wife and get away with it on baseops? Lol

Always hilarious in an infuriating way to watch leftist spout progressive bullshit and socialism this and that, then leave the meeting in their BMW M3, $100k vette, the 17 yr old “expert on life” driving away in her Range Rover going home to her parent’s $2M house. Funny how 99.9% of the ones arguing for this bullshit are well off white people (predominantly women).

But but…. That’s not “real” socialism… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My understanding was this guy got caught because he cleaned the wood chipper. The machine was so clean the people at the rental store remembered him and when he rented it.

I've known some military guys to do some really crazy stuff and end up incarcerated so I wouldn't single out airline pilots for bizarre behavior. That being said, I flew with our VP of Flight and asked him what was the strangest thing he had to deal with as a Chief Pilot. He said he got a call from a County Sheriff in Tennessee that had arrested one of our pilots because he was running up and down the street barking at cars....while naked. The pilot got help and returned to flying. I flew with a former Domicile President and asked the same question. He told me he got a call because one of our pilots had trashed his hotel room on a layover and was found passed out drunk in the room....with a goat. Not sure of what became of the pilot or the goat.

Do you realize what would happen if I turned in my homework in your hand writing? Biff

Comment from an old school Flight Attendant: "Sexual harassment will not only be tolerated, it will be graded."

At least the gear was down this time.

Sounds like the good people of Stillwater wanted a new runway and saw Uncle Sugar as a way to get there.

I can say I received the same intel!

A "Personnel Services Delivery Memorandum" is usually a 6-9 page document the authors should have condensed into 3 paragraphs. "Staffing" means all the Bobs get to keep it in circulation until the oxford comma dispute is settled.

This was just posted to the Portal: 20 Dec update: I realize that many of you are probably wondering why it takes two months between the board and the results to come out and I wanted to try to shed some light on that and let you know where things stand. Once the board concludes, I then send a list of the results to all of the assignment teams/CFMs to get career field releases. That was finalized on 9 Dec. I then have to brief the results to the AFPC/CC so he can certify the results. That occurred today, 20 Dec. The next step is to staff the PSDM throughout AFPC. With the holidays coming up, folks will be taking some well-deserved time off and I imagine it will take about 2.5-3 weeks until the staffing is complete. The last step is final release approval from my Directorate Chief. As soon as he approves it, I will upload the PSDM to myPers Secure. At that point, commanders will be able to notify their selects and then the PSDM will go public 7 days after the secure release. With all that said, I still can't give an exact date that it will be released other than to say it will be ASAP after I get the final approval. It is still on track for a mid-Jan release and rest assured that I will publish it at the earliest possible opportunity that I can.

I know from previous boards they are usually pretty good about answering questions about results on the UFT page on the portal.

That's good to hear, but..

This is what I got from a source: 70 Pilot: 61 UPT, 4 ENJJPT, 5 HTN 20 CSO 20 ABM 10 RPA

Update been told there’s around 70 pilot slots for this board.

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