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If we want to save fuel, we need to stop flying empty or mostly empty so damned often. I'm sure the software will help safe fuel, but when I burn 60K to fly 2 pallets of ######ing bubblewrap, my motivation to penny pinch goes up in smoke.

This is my surprised face. Task a group of shoes to work on solutions to a customer service problem, and "reducing service hours" is bound to percolate to the top of the idea list.

Look, like BigBear said, I'm not going to buy into saving an extra 69# of gas per mission when we are flying empty I would guess at least 25% of the time. I've seen countless times flying from the states to some place in SWA with 18 pallets and 69,000 pounds of stuff, then going back with absolutely nothing when i know there is something within an hour or two that need to get back to the states. And don't get me started with the types of crap that we haul to these locations... last trip I was on we flew at least 12 light carts to this undisclosed location when I can almost guarantee they have more than enough of them there already, but since the ones there aren't for the unit that is deploying then we have to haul them out. From what i've seen from the MIF software so far is the same that we've been doing before in the C-17. Fly 2-4k below max altitude and M .74... slower if you have a tailwind and faster if you have a headwind.... got it... we had a checklist that told us the exact same thing in the past. We already have enough to do from alert to takeoff that this is just another hinderance. Instead of this program, we should have hired fedex to teach us to run like their shipping model. I guarantee we would save more fuel that way than this program. Just my .02.

Quote from the AF Times forum that is actually an answer to the original question in this thread: "The Air Force is almost half the size it was during Desert Storm. We are flying aircraft with an average age of 30 years. We can't seem to get a new tanker...even when we try we hose it all up. The previous Sec Def fired our leaders and claimed getting ISR out of us was like "pulling teeth." Our personnel and finance systems have been decimated through force reductions to pay for a fighter jet that right now can't even fly. As a result folks are pretty much on their own - I once personally had a troop that was not paid for over 5 MONTHS (I was completely embarrassed for myself and my peers because the stripes I wear could do nothing to fix it). I have troops leaving a career field with a 6.5 SRB ($90,000 for a 6 year reup) despite the economy because of the AF insanity. A few have tried to leave for THE ARMY and were turned down because of our cronic critical status.. Maybe you could insinuate I'm one of the reasons they are leaving...but I would laugh at you, and I would hazard a guess most of my troops would as well. JMO though. We have been filling Army deployments in a flammable uniform with several different collar boot variations because we can't even figure out uniform requirements. My list is endless. The Air Force is broke...and I have no problem admitting it. "

This is terrifying

Fact...those problems all come from NSPMF's.

A reply from a SMSgt friend of mine who I hope like hell makes chief one day. I sent him a copy of the E-9's E-Mail and asked him what his first thought was on it. This is the response I got back: P.S. He proudly wears a Maintenance badge. It seems like 99% of the problems in the SNCO corps are non-maintainers.

Great thread. Thought you guys might like this article about the Navy's side of the dysfunctional DOD family. This is the first time in my 9 years that I've seen someone above the O-4 level write about how FUBAR Naval Aviation has become. Written by no less than a former Secretary of the Navy. http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2011-09/naval-aviation-culture-dead

Seriously, this guy has spent too much time writing papers for TUIU or something. With half a sentence from each paragraph, I still get the point. Hell, he could have said, "A kid I knew tried out for football but didn't make the cut. He practiced and finally made it." It's emails like this that force me to create a new auto-delete rule.

Oh wait; time out bad guys!! I got Aziz's blood on my ABU jacket; let me just go get a clean one or find a Tide stain pen so I can continue fighting. Okay time in bad guys! Thanks for that pic. Its been tweaked a bit STS: I think this explains why people like Katy Perry's (or maybe just her) songs so much: In all seriousness I do agree with disgruntledemployee, and I agree with going after this dude's boss too for letting this crap happen. Also +1 for tits.

I just keep yelling "Give 'er the Gun!" at random points. With enough enthusiasm and confidence, anyone will believe anything.

Gravitational effect of those huge balls of steel.