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All valid, but I'll take this opportunity for a side quest: our NOTAM system is garbage. Why can't they be in priority order, succinct, typed with human grammar, and void of strange acronyms requiring a decoder ring to grasp?

It’s going to be pretty embarrassing for the democrats when Trump beats their female candidate twice. I would also love for the first female president to be a Republican - just to rob the DEI obsessed mafia of that and elicit their hypocrisy.

She got a dead cat lady bounce, but she is still WAY behind in the electoral college math.

That dude isn't going to do/say anything contrary to what his boss says and jeopardize his next assignment/rank. There's plenty of actual studies/data that the AF has commissioned and then blatently ignored. I don't think a bunch of dudes brainstorming common sense ideas on the internet is going to help. Maybe if a C-17 crewed by two T-6 direct to Altus dudes crashes into an LGBTQ+ parade during a flyover they'll 're-evaluate' the training program.

It might just be me but this thread reeks of Monday-morning quarterbacking. It makes me wonder if any of my close calls over the years had resulted in a Class A what people would have said about my own culture, mindset, scoffing of this or that. God forbid you found out I wasn't wearing gloves and AFE-approved boots along with my 100% wool standard-issue long john's at the time.

Not sure who you've been talking to. I can tell you in my neck of the woods instrument procedures are not scoffed, considering we shoot the ILS or PAR to mins in a snowstorm every week in the winter. The point of saying that everything they learned in UPT is motherhood and will be covered in the first 5-10 minutes of the brief is not to say that those things aren't important. Any 11F who's been around more than a year or two knows enough dead pilots to disabuse themselves of that notion. The point of that statement is to say that you are expected to maintain proficiency in those areas yourself so that when we're in an LFE adversary coord, followed by blue mass brief, followed by package coord, followed by 20 minutes of flight fill-ins, we don't spend what little time we have left briefing up the approaches. Last I checked it's not "11Fs" trying to trim the fat at UPT, but some enterprising General Officers. Those of us who actually instruct at the FTU or MQT in the CAF would tell you that those decisions are making our job harder and more dangerous.

Update to T-38 PIT…I just got orders to it next year (Track C) and it’s now showing 4.5 months and TDY. On that note…anyone got gouge for me? Will there be someone to reach out to? Where to live? Etc. Never taught at UPT and this will be my last assignment so I know nothing.

@Biff_T Thought you may like this. Visiting my parents and found these from my dad’s Vietnam days.

Go look at what Boeing has done with Wedgetail....selling the Air Force a piece of crap and overcharging for it. AEW community could have done so much better but they have Stockholm syndrome and settled for the 20 year old shinny toy because E-3 was so bad. Horrible company. https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/air-force-strikes-deal-with-boeing-for-e-7-wedgetail/

That is the only language HAF responds to. They have a number. It's a political number, and they won't tell you what it is, but it's the one they find acceptable before at-scale recapitalization of primary and intermediate training is taken seriously. The rest of this exercise is nothing more than your typical morale-crushing regAF practice bleeding/running in place/ people put up with until they too bail for the airlines. Which is why I no longer get my blood pressure up about all the malfeasance, nor the political double speak. Any time people of my age demo have spoken up about this issue, all you get is tone policed and Luddite accussations. The AF has accepted atrocious gaps in basic training infrastructure for decades. The T-38 and the T-7 is the most glaring example, but the T-6 GPS is a poster child example as well, especially in the context of COTS solutions. To be clear, the -6s lack of NAS RNAV 1 compliance dates back to 2009, so they've been scoffing at it for a lot longer than this thread intimates.

Well shit the author is a nav. Hadn’t considered that.

Have you seen their MC rates 😂

Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor from Wounded Knee Massacre The wokeness... “It’s never too late to do what’s right,” an unnamed senior defense official said in a statement Wednesday. “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner.” Of course, actions from the last two decades which may merit the Medal of Honor don't rate such time critical attention by the Pentagon! 😡😡😡 Such as... Sergeant Rafael Peralta While clearing houses in the second battle for Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury) Sgt Peralta was shot by insurgents and was severely wounded. In the ensuing firefight a grenade was thrown into the room with Peralta and his Marines. Sgt Peralta pulled the grenade under him to absorb the grenade blast and was killed instantly. Sgt Peralta was nominated for the Medal of Honor by Lt Gen Natonski based on the reports. The nomination was later denied under review when some reviewers (who were not at the incident) believed Peralta was already clinically dead when the grenade was thrown. The award was downgraded to a Navy Cross. Multiple requests for a reconsideration were denied and after years of denials, Peralta’s family received his Navy Cross.

Our leaders need to grow a pair because their army counterparts are not special.

They just announced their -46 version. However, not all of the watch works due to multiple FCIFs.

I enjoy the irony of putting "Quiet Professional" on there.

Can it be produced without the quiet professional slogan? Any appetite for replacing the 12 index with the SOCOM spear?

Fixed it. Waiting on the official mockup from the Bremont, but here's a rough draft. Based on the Bremont Solo. Cost will be significantly discounted from the $3995 price for the standard watch. Includes custom 8 character engraving on caseback. 15 orders minimum for the build to start. PM me if you want the info to be on the list. Limited to current/former AFSOC only.