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Point of order, in recent times the first clown to recycle the open ranks inspection, nitpicking of uniforms and banning of items that made life easier for folks on the flightline was the ACC Commander Wilsbach, an Eagle Pilot to the core. Again, point of order, the first clown to start the airlinepilot looking uniform changes, V-neck t-shirts and gigline gazing was McNutgobbler when he was CSAF. Again another scrotum hugging, Eagle driving, fighter guy.

Chang said you can easily perform you RPA duties in blues.

the focus on lethality under welsh, goldfein, and brown is noted

Our “near-peer” adversaries are rapidly becoming peer. We’re at least a decade behind where we should be in terms of modernization. We’re hemorrhaging our most valuable human capital at a pace that almost seems deliberate. We have a host of young airmen that have no connection to the concept of service and treat the military like a jobs program for unemployed TikTokers…but the HIGHEST RANKING dude in the Air Force is addressing the branch regarding uniform standards!? Bros at WEPTAC don’t need to be worrying about whether they remembered to bring a nametag without a call sign. Funny that Norty Schwartz was mentioned because they were both herbivores…surely a coincidence. But seriously, the state of our fleet and quality of training for operators should keep people up at night, and it’s not helping that we spend an inordinate amount of time and energy focused on managing programs born of the post-9/11 bureaucratic bloat or chasing DEI and innovation initiatives. Take a scroll through TMT to see what I mean. We’ve lost sight of what it would take to decisively win a war against an actual adversary. There isn’t a base in the AF where I could find ten people who aren’t ops or mx and have five of them tell me what the wing’s mission is. I don’t know what the fix is but I’m damn sure it’s not another rewrite of 36-2903…

I mean in fairness, the fact they wear flight suits is a little stupid. Like when is the last time a GCS Caught fire? Just wear the utility uniform and call it good. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Some people (who aren't dinosaurs like you 😂🤣) thought that skeletor was referring to the guy who followed Mosley, I forget his name, but he was another skeleton-looking mother fucker.

Recency bias for sure, but Rich Clark is the only one I immediately recall that made it past the O-6/O-7 phase and felt like a genuine person.

My uneducated hopeful guess is 24 Jan! Monday is a federal holiday The 24th would be on timeline for when they released last year. waiting until the 31st would be just plain cruel.

Solid discussion on here about this topic. I try to avoid watching these kinds of videos. In my experience, they've made me more agitated overall, suspicious around ALL people (cops and citizens) in public to an unhealthy degree, taint my daily interactions, and the videos up my YouTube algorithm so that I get that and related content pumped in. It took me over a year to unwind from it. Now, all I do is never talk to cops unless necessary, and when I can't avoid it I make it as short, polite, and professional as possible while hamming up the military card.

Ha, The League is great: https://youtu.be/5ApSY_qjgrY

Books have been written brother...to very poorly summarize it, Putin wants to restore a vision of what the USSR used to be. Remember, he started as a KGB guy and most of those dudes are still pissed at how it all turned out. While many of the old school are nostalgic for a Russia that looks like the old days, I think Putin is a bit more pragmatic and that matches with his actions. He wants buffer states against NATO, not that he thinks they will invade but the close borders enable nationalism within those former proxies and nothing scares a good communist dictator more than nationalistic hopes for freedom. Putin wants to maintain control AND expand his influence and he knows a key component it the economy. Russia, despite its 23,000 miles of coastline, has no warm water, ice free ports, with direct access to an ocean. Not only is Russia landlocked, but they lack land where they can grow crops. Russia can be divided into three main areas. The tundra which is 32% of Riussia's land mass, is found north of the Arctic Circle which is WAY too cold for trees and crops. The subsoil is permanently frozen, sometimes to a depth of several hundred feet. Then there is the Taiga which represents 1/4 of the worlds forest. The soil is boggy and is again a huge area of Russia unusable for agriculture. Finally, the Steppe which is basically a large plain and the only area Russia and grow crops but unlike much of the rest of the world, in that the regions that receive the most rainfall, are the regions with soil least suited to agriculture. Its growing season of 5 – 6 months is also significantly shorter than the 9-month window western Europe has. The access to deep warm water ports and thus the world's oceans presents SEVERE challenges to Putin. In the event of war, Russia wouldn’t be able to get out of the Baltic Sea. To get into the North Sea and on into the Atlantic Ocean from St Petersburg, a ship must pass through the Skagerrak, a narrow body of water controlled by NATO members Denmark and Norway. Then there’s the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, also home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.The port however is simply too shallow and too small to facilitate large scale cargo operations. The port is also poorly connected to the Russian heartland, reducing the profit margin of exports, and increasing the cost of imports that come through the port. Even without conflict Putin's ability to get his goods, energy and resources to market. When you take these factors into consideration and his belief that Ukraine IS Russia his moves make sense. Taking the Crimea was ALL about access to open water...even with the limitations of getting through the The Turkish Straits, to include the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. Invading Ukraine proper gives him the bread basket of Europe. When you look at the calculus of what he has to gain combined with a feckless U.S. administration it makes sense. His mistake was not realizing 30+ years of Ukraine freedom and nationalism gave Ukrainians a resolve, combined with U.S. weapons and his military leadership being complete stooges he is struggling. I am not normally in favor of giant sums of money going to other countries, but in my knuckle-dragger opinion it is money WELL spent to take Russia off the stage for a generation as a hegemonic near-peer. But hey what do I know, I flew in circles for a living.

Man, what a tough question to answer. That's a lot of Eskimo brothers. However, Dibs can be used for a later date. Fuck it... Dibs (after a few recovery weeks to empty all of the sailors from inside of her). She's pretty and she'd more than likely bang a helicopter pilot.

Hegseth quote from today " If you're a rifleman and lose your rifle you have hell to pay, if you're a General and lose a war you get promoted"

Solid "twoop" on the algorithm; rage = clicks, and that's what it homes in on. I've deliberately chosen to consume less of that space, for reasons that you've articulated. That said, I've consumed just enough to build awareness, which I think is a good thing. While I have no appetite to be confrontational with LE, (auditors, imo, are insufferable, but I will begrudgingly admit, necessary) I have enough awareness to not participate in what is clearly the LE cabal's game (cabal = stakeholders, department leadership, unions, legal profit farm). First line of defense: say less, if nothing at all. Record every interaction. Be polite, professional even. At the very least, understand Terry, Mimms. Never consent to anything, especially a search, and positively state that consent is not given. My biggest phobia is DUI stop/checkpoint. It's become clear that you could be sober as a mountain stream, but if that guy needs his nut, you're along for the ride. Trick is to keep quiet and maintain comportment, let them build the case against themselves. Drug Recognition Experts is nothing but a fleecing scheme cooked up by federal bureaucrats. ====BREAK, BREAK==== I deliberately left out LEOs in what I call the "cabal" above; like I said, I think they are patsy's in the bigger picture. Mostly wanting to serve, like many in this group. What's painful to see though, is that they are routinely exposed to traumatic experiences on a level that has decimated our veteran ranks to suicide. And like our Vietnam era forefathers, they are feeling ostracized and hated. But most importantly, and I really think that this is by design, the system is oriented to drive a wedge between the public and the line cop, fomenting the idea that the community and it's LEOs are somehow enemies. Unless you have a vision of Statism, it's an unsustainable path, imo.

Don't discount a random day of the week like Tuesday! Our results in 2022 were released on a Tuesday to CCs.

These guys are standard AF generals. I've yet to meet a single general in the AF that the bros actually claim as part of their community. Usually said general takes command and the bros are like, "he flew X back in the day so hopefully he'll be good." Fast-forward to his first speech/memo/CC call...the bros: "were fucked.."

No surprise there...

Valid, Norty and Alvin are two CSAFs pushing this shit that both happen to be herbivores (which makes most of us AMC guys nauseous rest assured); but in fairness Wilsbach as current COMACC is not and he’s one of the most ardent perpetuators of this standards initiative; whilst former AMC commander said quote “I’m not doing that shit, I’m focused on keeping future AMC crews alive in the Pacific.”

She might have higher standards

The Russians are behind this, because, well, that's what they do. So any CC or Gen that enacts this is working for the enemy.

If all USAF pilots are being forced to wear blues every day, might as well go to the 89th and get a free jacket too.

This is a great analysis, but you left out one key point that I fear might be more causal than anything else you wrote. The people at the top instituting these policies made it to where they are specifically because of their ability to master the very insignificant processes that we're talking about. You are asking them to admit that the very core of their success, and thus their identity, is not only irrelevant, but detrimental to the real mission of killing our enemies and breaking their things. They will never do that.

Huggy, no disrespect to the ones who served under him and came before my time, I was referring to the other skeleton looking guy who brought back everyone’s fave day, blues Mon.

"Hold my beer!"

Finland was a Nazi ally that later joined NATO. Russia is only defending itself. /S

One of the most pertinacious and wrong ideas which senior Air Force leadership has embraced is this: every standard is equally valuable therefore if your zeal for all standards isn't equal you are unprofessional. They believe a lack of rigidity about seemingly 'small' rules, like Friday patches, will result in negligent fratricide or crashing aircraft, etc. They see (based on faith) a direct link to extreme outcomes for overlooking small infractions. The idea you might ignore trivialities to prioritize important things like victory or safety is anathema and their minds are unable to process this situation. Those of us outside their bubble intuitively understand prioritization is a natural human phenomenon and should be embraced rather than shunned. We want young Captain ACs making decisions keeping missions on task & timeline rather than stopping a joint ROC drill because someone's sleeves are rolled up. But these cultists are like celebrate monks looking at sex, convinced it's the source of all ills and endlessly devising rules to guardrail us from it... not understanding it's literally necessary for the species. In combat prioritization is essential to success; even a cursory examination of military history would prove as much. Look no further than the Taliban and NVA for recent examples proving uniform compliance isn't tied to battlefield objectives; examples are numerous proving the absurdity of their core idea but they can't have the discussion. I've tried. Ask them for proof that selective standard enforcement will result in mission failure and they might have anecdotes but zero data. There is zero data supporting their belief. Ask them if standard compliance is so important, what is our process to test new standards before instituting and what is the process to repeal if data proves it isn't required? No answers. You'll go to SDE and study works from historic military minds, who all sported beards, then be told beards are incompatible with military success. Then you'll go on an exercise with Allied nations who have beards, call them our indispensable partners, then with a straight face tell ourselves beards are unserious for military professionals. This example is just beards but uniforms are the same. Go find paintings of the continental army defeating forces of the tyrant King George and tell me which military has the most standardized uniforms, lol. The answer to your question is the moment you embrace ideas asserted without proof, cannot rationally convince those who ask for proof, trust only those who share your idea and ignore your own obvious intellectual hypocrisy... that's the moment you've gone full retard in pursuit of rank. At that point even losing multiple wars is insufficient to free your mind, you've been captured and are unfit to lead despite what rank or position you hold. This is the unfortunate state of our Air Force.

We were at peak Iraq war last time it was enacted

If you carry this attitude in UPT, you'll do fine. Remember, no matter how good you think you are in UPT, it's needs of the Air Force and timing for any MWS you might end up flying. All the missions link up at some point. That's where the magic (or complete failures) happen. You won't regret Helos, just remember that typically you'll be held to picking up fat chicks at the bar. The fighter dudes usually clear out all of the hot ones.