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Story time... Pops once told me about the old days when all the F-4 units in Europe would rotate down to Wheelus AFB Libya for desert bombing and gunnery training. The first base to arrive would typically load up beer, ice and bbq items and roll down to the beach to watch jets from the different bases arrive and prep for a 1st night beach party. On one deployment my dad had a new guy in the back seat and having had a nice tailwind on the way down he arrived with a lot of extra gas. He decided to give the new a quick "area fam" which was just an excuse to do an airshow over the beach while the bros set up the grill and "graded" his performance. When he landed the deployed commander was waiting for him as he shutdown and said "you are directed to report to the Wing/CC's office tomorrow at 0700 in your Class A uniform. Back then you were always supposed to have your Class As with you but for some reason his was back in the office at Bitburg....oops. My dad was a large dude and there was only one other bigger dude that bothered to bring his uniform and this guy was 6'6". My dad said he had to fold the jacket up on the inside and pin the sleeves, same with the bottom of the pants. He was the Squadron Patch at this point and helped start the Fast Fac program when he was in Vietnam with the Triple Nickel so most of the leadership at other bases knew who he was, including the Wheelus Wing King. My dad had five DFCs at this point but the owner of the uniform was newer and had not completed a Vietnam tour so his ribbons were a bit "sparse" which the Wing King immediately noticed and make a snide remark about. Over the next few minutes the Wing King very loudly chewed his ass. The base had some sort of conference center and senior officers often would rotate down for conferences. As luck would have it some senior Navy Admirals were there for a conference and had their wives in tow... Unknowingly pops flew right over their outdoor social at 50' pushing 600 knots. Pops said he took the ass chewing and was dismissed so he turned to leave...as he got to the door the Wing King said "Stop!", then with his back turned said "DAMN FINE Flying!!!...now get out of here." He never heard another word about the event except from all the bros that were at the beach that day.

I'm not sure if you're serious, or continuing the long con from @BashiChuni. If Chang were a real account, sure.... For the record, hats off to @BashiChuni liking his own posts...its like public masturbation and getting away with it. Sent from my SM-N976V using Baseops Network mobile app

bro I think you might be biased here

I remember wearing blues one Monday when it first started because “they” took a hard stand on not on schedule = blues. Walked into squadron to immediately be told by the DO I was flying because another guy was sick. Too bad my flightsuit was at home. We took off about 45 min late and the policy changed that day - no more pilots wore blues at our base. It was a great “we told you so” moment to upper management (disclaimer: this was in my AD days, but that should probably go without saying).

Remember when all the heavy drivers were excited because we got a non-fighter CSAF...then the first thing he did was implement blues Monday? Fuckin' clown! Sounds like this dude took a page of Norty's book and stepped it up. Thankfully escaped blues Monday because we could always be thrown on the schedule.

Im serious. I dont care who General Chang is. Any other reddit fucktards messing around on this forum should realize we're all not fake accounts. Im a real human who flew real missions. I'll take alot but don't assume that we're all full of shit because of the other fucks from forums on the internet are. I know some dudes on this site have done work. I hope to God General Chang is real so he can tell the other leaders that at least one retired combat vet isn't going to forget when Congress voted to send us to Iraq. They dont get a free pass, especially when the real warriors (dudes on the ground/dudes who flew into Iraq on night one or night 30 doesn't matter, they were still shooting shit into the air in Dec of 03, ask me how I know?) we didn't all get combat time without seeing shit explode. Maybe he was too busy at the Pentagon sucking the President's and VPs dick for a sweet 6 figure job but I wasnt. This is the only website I still trust for talking to my bros who served, especially combat aviators or those who are training to fight the next war. Maybe one of your children is in still. One of mine leaves in 11 days for bootcamp. He will fight in the next war. Im sure of it. I hope the General has at least one Air Medal from the wars we faught the from 2001 to 2020. Some generals dont even have that but a somehow always have a fuck ton of bronze stars lol. At least the General from the Academy who wast talking in the DEI hearing had a DFC and an AFCAM. I know at least he flew one good mission overthere. What are your quals General Chang? Just a little curious what kind of dude I'm getting called an internet warrior by. I hope you never lost some dudes on a mission, because that will put a little more emphasis on why we shouldn't fight wars unless we're all in. No starting a war and ending it with no clear objectives. Internet Warrior - Biff

Last time I wore blues was for the O-5 interview, still had Capt rank on them from SOS, and my shoe soles literally disintegrated as I walked out the door. Electrical taped them together and pressed - I don’t think anyone noticed!

I retired having worn mess dress three times. Once as baby class forced to go to our senior class graduation. Once to graduate ENJJPT and finally for my B-Course graduation. Mess dress was the biggest waste of money ever. Hell, after training I think I only wore my blues twice. Once for an award picture, I wore my top only and had to pull my captain rank off my hat since my jacket still had 1Lt rank on it. Damn PA chick took a zoomed out pic of me with blues top and flight suit bottom, then sent it to the SQ/CC and mayor for blackmail. The other time was when a douche canoe at state required blues to interview for O-5. My ribbon rack is still the same as when I was a SSgt. An open ranks in my old squadron would be hilarity.

Sounds strangely familiar to a military carrer lol.

I pulled a chair up to the window here in Crystal City, and I can see part of the puzzle palace, the monument, and the Dome. I'm not as impressed as I once was. Believe it or not, I'm constantly challenging my own thoughts more than anyone else and I don't like the feeling of, or giving the perception of, shytting on my country. But just when I convince myself that my concerns are overwrought, they get reinforced. Like this article from Gallup. https://news.gallup.com/poll/509189/confidence-military-lowest-two-decades.aspx My career in service was a pretty big chapter in my life so I have an interest in whether my investment was a wise one. Yesterday, I saw a video of a 100 year old Marine Vet crying over America and how it isn't what he fought for. Pretty sad. I don't want to be that guy. But why is it average Americans have such a dim view of the military during one of the most dangerous times in recent memory?

Yep its out, check dms

A HR guy once told me, if modern companies had no women in their ranks the HR dept they would not have a job. Seeing that new college graduates who put their preferred pronoun on their resumes are going straight into the G file.

Chang would tell you to bring your flight gear while wearing blues. I’m learning this type of leadership style from his posts

It's very popular on social media! Bummer I was DNIF and missed it this year. I won't make that mistake in 2024.

It was 82. Thanks, super stoked!

I can’t think of a better excuse for an officer to piss their pants in public than this.

How the mighty have fallen. B3 has turned warriors into clowns.

It’s not RUMINT, it’s already happening. AFSOC wings have TASKORDs to implement it, I shit you not.

A company in Florida is bringing back the PBY and going to do what Basler in Oshkosh did to the C-47. This company wants to ressurect the PBY 'Catalina' seaplane (interestingengineering.com)

Package...is...submitted...up to the UPT gods at this point [emoji1696] Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

This. For you younger guys unfortunate enough to have dickless leadership, look up scarf wear in the AFI. I’m not joking. At least 10 years ago on AD when we fought the same shit, there was no specific guidance on HOW you had to wear a scarf (other than a portion tucked into the flightsuit) or what it looked like (color, logos, etc). Walk into finance with it tied up like an ascot with your Friday patch prominently displayed across your throat area, go for it. I’ve never seen so many shoe clerks have aneurisms - and the LPA provided little cards with the AFI quote you could hand to a chief and tell him to read in front of you. All in all, it turned out to be one of the best “fuck you” to the man campaigns I’ve seen play out.

This statement brought up a funny story for me recently... No shit, there I was a punk ass ENJJPT student back in the day when we had just switched from the Tweet to the T-6. Everybody referred to the T-6 as "the jet" and the biggest douche I've ever met as an IP (Dutch guy) would go out of his way to make the point that the T-6 wasn't a jet. He even always had the wikipedia page pulled up where he would contribute "not a jet" on the bottom of the page. Everyone that flew with him (including me) had a God awful sortie and got absolutely abused the entire sortie. I even had to no shit do an ICE-T calculation on a whiz wheel during an instrument eval with this guy. ANYHOW, I recently stopped at Sheppard recently as an O-5, DO, Weapons School Instructor and this fucking guy is back but now flying the T-38. It shook me. I was immediately transformed back into a scared B flight student trying to remember the pattern references. I felt exactly like Sara Connor in Terminator 2 when she's breaking out of the mental institution and Arnold comes around the corner. Truly one of the most jarring moments in my career because it was sooooooo unexpected. Or maybe I'm just a pussy.

TBNT from Duluth yesterday

Time for that tent to find a young unsuspecting Boom to make it a proper woman. Lol. I wonder how many little tents from different fathers come with it?

It’s real stupid, that’s for sure. The memo itself was real aggravating to read, HQ reaching into Sqs like that. That being said, in my corner of AFSOC, leadership is trying to meet the bare minimum intent so as to not pile more shit on everyone’s already overflowing plates. I also don’t think AFSOC has turned into a bunch of clowns (at least not yet). We’re still able to go out and execute, directly validated just a couple months ago.

i can't imagine why!