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What a mess they have to deal with now...someone is going to be justifiably butthurt. The playoff should be: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. FSU 4. Texas Last week the chairman of the selection committee said "Head to Head no matter when they play." IF they follow their own rules and statements: Alabama beat Georgia...Adios Georgia (you had a great run). Texas beat Alabama...adios Nick. Michigan, Washington and FSU are all undefeated power five champions. And before they bash FSU, they beat a top 15 school with their 3rd string QB while holding them to 68 yards. I don't like FSU but I hope they stick to the facts... What I fear is the so called "eye test" which is ALWAYS tainted by SEC colored glasses.

Prohibition doesn't work, and I'm sick of the knee jerk reaction to ban things for promises of safety. The same GO restricting booze sales to "keep Airmen safe" doesn't think twice about dropping a tasker at 1700 on Friday and sending those Airmen home to a furious wife after the kids are asleep. In my experience senior leadership should look in the mirror when trying to understand rising suicides in their force. Instead, they hit the easy button of restrictions & claim a halo for their duplicity.

Had to double check this wasn't Chang.🙂 Unnecessarily burdensome? No. Unnecessary useless bullshit? Yes. This was done at Hurbie, 2008ish?, to stop DUIs, lasted a short few months. How about this idea. Reverse the hours and stop selling during the day because it promotes day drinking. Same logic eh. Planning is cool but you do get a bit of the stink eye walking out of the express at 0630 with a 30 rack of natties on your way to crew brief. That being said I lived in Santa Rosa county for many years with alcohol sales restrictions. You learned to plan around those. Got to the Navarre Winn Dixie one night after a flight at 1155 got to the checkout at 1159, just made it. Not saying you agree with the restrictions

So let’s not address the real causes. Overworked, under resourced, constant pressure to do more with less, ops tempo that’s higher than it was when we were actually fighting a war…nope, overnight beer sales are the cause.

This! I was all about helping someone move on, I'd make phone calls, write recs and happily help you on your way. However, you're still gonna have to keep pulling your weight until you 1288 yourself off my books.

As you shouldn't. Because the question is moot. The implication behind the wording is he thinks they're going to give him a "sabbatical" from having to man up and schlep his Burger King ass (oops, I misspelled airline pilot 😄 ) to the unit and meet status quo participation/IMR requirements, just because he declared an intention to transfer. Straight out of the Michael Scott playbook. The answer should go without saying, but I guess I'm old now and it needs spelled out: That's not how it works, that's not how any of this works. @brabusalready covered the flybys. The manner in which individual units deal with a member wishing to 1288, ranges all the colors of the spectrum. The usual one, if the "commute" is the hardship, is to do the mark-to-market accounting shtick, and look at quarterly or semi-annual participation, instead of monthly. Make an ETP to allow the member in question cover the equivalent pro-rata participation on a front-loaded basis, as opposed to straight-even throughout the fiscal. Other versions, such as trip bundling (common in my AETC-TFI corner of the ARC world) is also a common way to minimize the travel for the commuting TR. Too many variables to give a unit-specific answer. Kids these fvcking days.... 😄

If a hurricane is callin them thugs you know they must be legit.

Well, I think you landed on the real reason...more money will flow with 'Bama being there. But, I won't be surprised if FSU and Clemson bail on the ACC...ESPN has a clear bias for the SEC (which has a losing record overall to ACC this year) and proven it's the P2 +2 Notch another mark in your belt boys...killed the PAC-12, and will probably kill the ACC. Apparently winning all your games doesn't matter any longer. Boo Corrigan can get fucked EDIT to add: changed P3+1 to P2+2. Once that school in Austin leaves, the Big-12 is just as screwed over as ACC is. Just what the college football tradition is all about...2 super Conferences and everyone else. Boo Corrigan can still get fucked

Alabama beat Auburn in a last second 4th and 31. An Auburn who lost to New Mexico State. They also LOST to Texas. They deserve to go? Only SOME games matter? Is this fucking WWE?

Well, as long as it's based on feelings then I guess it's all good! Who really cares about wins anyway? I mean, a great team can't win a national championship with a back-up QB, so thinking and feeling is the right choice. Oops, I forget that four of the last nine college championships were won by teams who had to field their back-up QB.

In an effort to reduce suicides, the Air Force is making suicide illegal.

Even worse the same GO's give themselves a personal waiver. DJ was the perfect example, the non-SOF folks could have two beers per day (SOF was under GO 1 and could have two beers once a month), meanwhile the colonels and GOs would sit in the screened in porch at the while house drinking bourbon and scotch until two in the morning.

IMO, long term it's bad. Helicopters are already widely misunderstood in the AF. Now keeping them in entirely separate training pipelines from fixed wing is only going to make it worse. Also limits cross flow opportunities. Can you make a quality helicopter-only pilot? Sure. That's not the hard part. Getting students with way less flight training would require a pretty big syllabus rewrite, but it's not impossible.

If you’re alerting from your squadron and you don’t have a stocked bar, shack your LPA. If it’s from a forward location, shack yourself for not keeping a stash of road sodas for morale after demonstrating exemplary performance.

Watching 30 year old Bo Nix’s 12 year college career come to an end with a loss was great* *if they don’t go to a bowl

I don’t really understand your question of the unit keeping you on TR status while you’re “looking” for a new unit? just go look for a new unit, when you find one that wants to hire you you’ll sign a form called a 1288 (I think that’s the form) and that’s a conditional release. Basically it says you’re leaving one unit for another you’re not leaving the service. I don’t know how the reserves do things, I’ve heard AFRC bros say everything from “it’s a better deal then the guard” all the way to people saying weird things like they’re not allowed to live outside of a certain radius of there reserve squadron, so naturally, YMMV.

Don’t have a break in service. If you’re moving immediately, then at least maintain TR status, even though that’ll include travel for you. Work with your current CC to only come every other month and combine RUTAs to make up a full work week, etc. The easiest transition is obviously to a same-aircraft unit, but you certainly could find another unit who will TX you. Worst case, you can find a points-only job in the new location to avoid break in service, but probably undesirable to stop flying, even if temporarily.

his family should sue the shit out of shitspin

Blackface is. BLACKRED face is something new. We're not sure if it's offensive yet. We'll have to wait for the left to tell us.

This is what happens when the left’s demand for calling out racism exceeds supply

Some partisan race-baiter who poses as a journalist at Deadspin (whatever that is) concocts a story about some kid wearing blackface at a Chief's game and tries to shame the kid on social media. Epic Fail...turns out the kid is wearing Chief's colors and the headdress? Also, turns out the kid is bona fide and registered Native American. Many Chiefs fans are planning to wear black and red face paint to the next game in a show of support for this kid, who has been getting attacked by the woke left.

Thread bump. Just read through this thread and figured I'd save people the trouble of culling the new from the old about what the expect from p-cola. This is accurate as of when I graduated in January, but the syllabus there is changing faster than you can blink. So you got selected for CSO, here's what to expect. Casual status: The pipeline has not been very backed up for a while, so don't expect to be spending months laying around on the beach. That said, this will be the most time you have to enjoy p-cola, so make the most of it, go to the beach (I think Perdido Key is better than p-cola beach, but it depends on how many people you are looking to be with) enjoy your time off. There will be job opportunities that come along, volunteer for some of them, but don't go hog wild thinking that it will look great on your record, no one will care after you get your wings. As far as housing, you can live on or off base for the time being. If you live on base you will be in base housing (privatized, so they take your BAH and you sign a lease) sharing a place with two others. If you choose to go off base there are lots of good options within about 15 min of the back gate that are very nice and are a good price. There are dorms under construction, once they are done (sometime next year I think) then all singles will have to live there. IFS: While on casual you will go to IFS in Pueblo, CO. The CSO program there is about 3-4 weeks long depending on your aptitude and the weather. The first week will be academics, pilot, CSO, RPA (or whatever the hell they are calling themselves today) all together learning the same stuff. Once you begin flying you will have several rides straight our of the pilot syllabus where you learn basic aircraft control and aviation, how to talk on the radio, and some basic navigation. The last few rides are visual navigation where you visually navigate a given route adjusting the speed to hit the turnpoints on time, the focus is on your awareness of where you are and where you are going, so no need to worry about things like flying the airplane, the IP takes care of that. The key to surviving IFS is to study and chair fly like crazy. The volume of material that you are expected to learn and the rate at which you need to master it is deliberately crafted to challenge you, it's a screening program. Make sure you are in the books every night and chair fly ever flight, and you should be ok Begin UCT! Primary phase: Primary begins with a big load of classes, again it's all about staying in the books, from here on everything counts towards your final ranking. First comes some time with physiology where you learn just how not suited humans are to flying. Then you learn about basic aeronautics, simple navigation (instrument and dead reckoning), flight planning, working as a crew, and a huge load of T-6 systems. Finally you get a couple of sim rides to get comfortable with the checklists and watching all the instruments move as you do things in the back seat and then it's off to the flight line! On the flight line you will (hopefully) fly almost every day, and your job is to plan the flights and brief the pilot on what you will be doing. You start with instrument flights on which you go up and do an IFR flight from place to place, usually with a stop to do a few approaches at an outlying field. Your main role is developing your air sense and telling the IP what to do, they will attempt to be a "voice activated autopilot" that does what it is told. Once you have a handle on that you begin to fly low levels. Again, you plan them, you brief them, in the air you direct them. Advanced: This is where the real CSO learning begins. In the advanced phase you will cover a new topic about every three weeks, from academics to a test, sim missions and a checkride. First is basic high level radar navigation, learning to interpret what you see on a radar scope and find yourself on a chart, and then putting that to use to get yourself somewhere on time. Next is the very EWO part of the course where you learn all about radar threat systems and how to identify them. The self protect phase puts the two together and you navigate to hit a target on time, while evading threats along the route. Then it is back to the airplane, only now it's the T-1. You will again do several high level missions and several low levels, only now it's as part of a crew. You and another student plan the flight together and each fly half, managing things between yourself, the pilot and the instructor CSO. Back in simulator land you are again playing EWO as you plan offensive jamming against an enemy. Finally comes air to air operations, where you use an AA radar to run intercepts against a bogey. Then, the final integration exercise. You wrap it all up and spend days pouring through the 3-1 tactics manuals in order to plan, in it's entirety, a day one strike against whatever bad guy is in vogue at that time. Selection process: Because this is what it's all about anyway. The drop will come sometime just before or during your integration phase. Everthing you have done up to this point is taken into acount and weighted accordingly. Tests are worth a lot, checkrides are as well. Your class instructor will put his own ranking in and will then rack and stack the entire class. Each instructor runs things a little different but in general you have no idea what aircraft are coming down the pipe, so you fill our your dream sheet from first choice to last. Remember that nothing has been determined prior to this point so you are also indicating your desire for NAV/EWO/WSO/CSO. Then your instructor starts with guy number one and sees if he can give him his first pick, and works his way down the list like that. Drop night comes, and you learn your fate! So, how do you get what you want? Be the best you can at every step of the way, it's incredibly competetive and the split between top and bottom of the class can be as little as 3 percentage points. If you put in the work, study hard, and rock every check ride, you stand a pretty good chance of being where you want to be, after that it's all up to AFPC and what they decide to send your way. I think what airframes are available has been flogged to death elsewhere, so I shall call this a wrap.

As much as I think it’s kind of messed up for FSU to go undefeated in a “top” conference (ACC is pretty weak these days), I definitely don’t think they are one of the 4 best teams. Good on the committee for getting it right this year.