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You're not new, you know this song and dance already. They have a retention self-created "problem" due to crap QOL post-UFT ADSC and people becoming older heads of household. By proxy that becomes a production problem, because they decided to fill the gaps with new accessions instead of addressing the original self-created problem, full stop. The real problem for them is that they also don't have the political capital to make undergraduate pilot training (an enterprise already scoffed at as scutwork by many within the combat coded echelons, ACC/11Fs in particular) a capitalization priority, but the Pharaoh demands more brick. Boeing being a malicious MIC grifter doesn't help matters on that effort. This thing should have been COTS solved 5 years ago (and it would have, both COTS solutions were plug and play and operational for DECADES). At any rate, in the absence of political capital, all you can do is kabuki dance. So in comes the sophistry: "CRAFT""VR""UPT NEXT""Innovate!". Then the secondary effort to strawman objective critics of the obvious, as anachronistic malcontents that are getting in the way of progress (that's yours truly and company btw). That's how you get the current status quo. An enterprise dead set in fixing a retention problem they created, by digging themselves into a production problem they can't control, via diluting the quality control of the product and insist you don't dare say publicly they are. Then wash their hands when the core competency and loss rate of the grey jets become too public for the senior management in the DC swamp to stomach. Since this COA exceeds the median VML cycle, it's plausibly deniable. None of this is conjecture, it's my lived experience since oh say, fiscal '18? Through all the jokes, the meme witchhunts on instagram, the non-judicial punishments, and all the banter on here about the leadership changes you highlight, they have been the most emphatic about never tolerating the utterance that these SGTO evolutions are a dilution of quality. Most RegAF just doesn't have that corporate memory because they PCS too frequently. But Pepperdige Farms (AFRC) remembers. The all-contractor wet dream they've always had is also DOA, because Congress won't let them touch the pork earmarked for the aforementioned localities. So we're stuck in this morass, and more young guys will end up dead for it, before somebody finally tells HAF to KIO and addresses the capitalization of this enterprise with the gravitas it deserves.

Clearly it is NATO’s fault.

They (the delusional that think what Novosel does is a well oiled machine) aren’t interested in hearing what the other services do. If they were I wouldn’t be asking for this information informally through a social media forum to then take as talking points to the Senior leaders forum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Confirm this is the Army you're talking about?

anecdotally I can tell you the FWQ program was there to reinforce a lot of those deficiencies, but no stated letter would ever be public. From my recollection it was always couched under the assumption the fixed wing fundamental from army undergraduate was simply too short for the usaf liking, not necessarily driving a pointed aspersion at the quality control of army under grad training, green bag or contractor alike. Concur with the prior comments regarding data mining via GTIMS. The point about UPT 2.5 is valid (garbage product imo), but you can easily compile multi decade samples predating the 2.5 sophistry distraction, and still get a good control group wiht the SUPT 1.0 AF and USN kids. Access to the data in a way that can be mined will be the hurdle.

It feels like 20 Jan could bring in an era of real disruption and change. Here are some ideas for the new SECAF to get in on the action and shock the stale bureaucracy to life: 1) Purge the bloat. Hold the promised Selective Retirement Board for O-7 through O-10. Retire one-third of all stars from the force, and eliminate one-third of all HHQ staff positions to compliment the GO cuts and downgrades. Leave the GO positions vacant or downgraded, and distribute the HHQ staff cuts to operational Wings. Upgrade operational Active Duty Wing Commands to one-star billets. 2) Give Wing Commanders 100% authority over promotions up to O-4 and E-7. Also, give full discretionary authority over 50% of O-5, E-8, and E-9 promotions. If laws require promotion boards (O-4, O-5), convene the boards to review records for errors and oversights. 3) Extend all Command tours to 4 years. Commanders should be the longest-tenured and most operationally knowledgeable members of their organizations. 4) Fix the standards and discipline crisis. Many, including the ACC Commander, have recognized the symptoms, but few seem to have diagnosed the disease. Fundamentally, many airmen have come to believe that they do not have to do what they are told, AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY CORRECT! Supervisors are hesitant to discipline, and subordinates’ avenues of recourse are strong and many. First step: Just a SECAF order, “Supervisors will discipline subordinates who fail to maintain standards. Such actions are a mandatory requirement of leadership, and will not be misconstrued as harassment, favoritism, hazing, or bias.” This is not about uniforms and haircuts. This is about doing your job well. 4a) The bluster about “grooming standards” is really about beards, and the issue is racially charged. Having de-facto racially segregated facial hair standards is not good. Immediately allow beards for all members and make this ridiculous issue go away forever. 5) Day one attack on over-classification…end CUI. It is ironic (perhaps Orwellian) that the latest information classification marking is “Controlled Unclassified Information”. Secrecy is the death of accountability. CUI was created by executive action, so it can be undone. 6) Incite a personnel management revolution. AFPC is ground zero for self-destructive centralized bureaucratic control. Look to professional sports leagues for an alternative private sector model. Smash the bureaucracy, and announce a software-based de-centralized personnel management system. Yes, this would include “free-agency” periods where members and Commanders will hold direct power over internal personnel movements. 7) Honestly exercise and evaluate the military capability of units. Exercises against challenging threat and logistics scenarios should be conducted on a no-notice basis and be evaluated by the MAJCOM or higher. Evaluate military performance, not compliance or methods. On day one, warn Wings to expect no-notice exercises. Before the end of February, drop an ambitious, multi-wing, cross-MAJCOM exercise against a robust “pacing threat.” Include fighters, tankers, cargo, CRG, and bombers. The great thing about no-notice exercises is that they do not take too long to plan. Expect the exercise to blow up like the first Starship, which would make it a massive success.

Methinks regional bomber / drone launcher-controller more than fighter in a traditional sense The weapons bays look big enough for the PL-15 or 17, could have an arsenal mission too Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I suspect they will climb the learning curve quickly as they are putting their money where their mouth is and designing, cutting metal, flying, experimenting with new ideas in the real world and not getting caught up with the trap of every system has to be perfect and last 40 years Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My father in law asked if it was because of DEI.

That's how you spell it after too many Mythos

Looked like the bird proximity fused on the tail.

Guess it depends on what disgruntled means by clown show. If he simply means theatrics (like making Canada the 51st state), then yeah, trump is full of stuff like that. If he means hypocritical theatrics from congress, then also yes, there will be plenty of that. If he means executive level performance on par or worse than the historic disaster of the Biden admin, then I believe he is completely off his rocker and incapable of self-derived rational thought.

Tell us five new policy changes that Trump has said he will implement that you believe will make things worse.

Really, Azerbaijan Airlines backed Russia into this corner. They have no one but themselves to blame. If they weren't flying airplanes to Grozny, the Russians wouldn't have felt the need to defend themselves. /s

I would follow your doctors advice. Firstly, head injuries are nothing to fuck around with. However, what makes you so sure you had one? You clearly had symptoms, assumedly you shared 100% with your doc, who then recommended to go get a scan IF they didn’t get better. Whatever you told him didn’t concern him enough to send you right away. Are they truly getting better/going away? If so, sounds like your doc’s medical opinion is you’re good and don’t need a scan. That statement is solely based on the little info you’ve posted here, so take it with a grain of salt. Don’t fuck with head injuries - if you’re leaving something out here, or with your doc when you talked to him, you should probably go get scanned. Side note, if you want to fly, keep that in the forefront of your mind when you do activities. I’m an adrenaline-driven person, I get it. I still probably do things I shouldn’t, but if you’re doing high risk stuff before you’ve even attempted an FC1, let alone earned wings and started flying mil jets, you’re really risking your dream. I’m not saying worry or become a super risk-adverse person, but maybe don’t race motorcycles or BASE jump (but normal skydiving is relatively safe - go for it), etc.

I prefer something more along these lines.

I was gonna say the better comparison would be the jackasses stateside telling us that war over there wasn’t our problem and what Germany was doing wasn’t really that bad. Luckily some of our grandfathers didn’t gargle Reddit level stupid coming out of a coordinated IA campaign. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk