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Actually, depending on your deployment cycle, you end up doing those two-year CBTs every 6 months (to be current all the way through the deployment, then to be current for the next ORI, then to be current again for your next deployment). Of course, part of the problem is that our training managers insist on making people current THROUGH the deployment...when the reg only requires you to be current the day you set foot in the AOR.

That's how you know SERE is an Air Force course: you had to do it both in-residence and correspondence.

While sitting in my awesome deployed location, and after hearing for the 669th time that those who break even minor uniform regs obviously can't be trusted to do the bigger things like fly airplanes...my bros and I took note that all the SOF dudes here are ALWAYS out of uniform, even when off duty. No PT uniforms, beards, they can wear whatever the they want, and so on. So next time some damn Chief tells me he can't trust me to fly a ing airplane because my socks are the wrong color, I'm going to point out that our biggest ass-kickers basically blow off AFI 36-whatever on a daily basis and they still up the bad guys. Just sayin'...

The real root problem with "Chiefs" is the O-6s they work for who empower them to act that way. Every time I have seen an officer do anything but kotow to a Chief over his asinine 'correction', it has resulted in a direct ass-chewing from an O-6. It's to the point where the Chiefs believe they are carrying all the rank of the guy with the Eagles whom they work for - and the Colonels are not only allowing it, but they're ENCOURAGING it by their actions. The Chief knows he can confront ANY officer he sees, because he knows that if he is rebuked, he'll be able to go tattle to daddy Colonel, who will then show that officer who's the boss. It's sickening...it's like the Commander's wife who thinks she is the "commander" of all the spouses, or that she wears her husband's rank around base. We can complain about Chiefs until the sun burns out, but the REAL issue is the O-6s they work for. Until they decide to stop allowing E-9s to go on these rampages, and put their feet down about policy, there will never be a fix.

Actually, it's Swizz Beatz who says that. Sean Carter is the one who has a bunch of problems, but a bitch ain't one.

"Excuse me Sir...according to AFI-36-2969 (pushing up glasses)...anything modifying the purpose of a uniform is prohibited, and well, by you putting that flashlight on your zipper, it turns your flight suit into a giant light emission source which is not the purpose of that flightsuit. It is a flight suit, not a lightsuit. Can you please remove it before you blind me, Sir?" (joking, but I could totally see it happening)

Saw brief recently from wing CC recently, even slides said Home of the Warfighter.