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You forgot the classic... Gird your soldiers in belts of light, that they might be visible from every aspect. None shall smite they that glow.

What better place to purport a DT, DCA, and OCA agenda than on The Small Wars Journal.

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up "So you can keep your Bonus Take Rate and whatever other variables go into your Rated Distribution and Training Management models. Money isn’t going to keep me here. I didn’t become a fighter pilot because I wanted to get rich. I became a fighter pilot because I believed. And after everything I’ve seen, my trust and faith in the Air Force is so broken I don’t know why I’m doing this anymore. This flight path marker is buried in the dirt. I’m punching out."

Thank you Mr. Webster. Related question, what is the distance from an airfield where it's safe to become hypoxic while flying?

Having been in a position of leadership at RF (a while ago), I was sometimes frustrated at the senior leadership who thought RF needed to change completely from the traditional tenet of "first 10 missions for Blue 4" to support a COIN/Low Threat/SCAR/XCAS/whatever to train for Iraq and Afghanistan. And how much it pissed 'em off when I told them "NFW". Although we did institute "Part Task Training" to accommodate the training needed. The other side of that picture is the number of younger guys who would come up with ideas that were incredibly stupid too - and would get pissy when you told them "no". It is interesting to see what RF is doing today. And I am not impressed.

Gives them plenty of time to fill out trophy packages and make videos.

Free national park passes. Perfect timing, mine expires next month. We thought it was a steal at $80... http://store.usgs.gov/pass/military.html

We all know that we are going to get a wide variety of commanders. Some you would follow anywhere they asked because you know without a doubt that they are looking out for you (a very rare breed these days) and then we have the majority of our current managers who couldn't lead a bowling ball down a hill. When you have an actual leader as a commander, even in the worst of conditions they will rarely have to use the term "suck it up"... and if they do then you can be damn sure the word "we" is going to preface it and not "you". I've been in really crap situations with a great commander and guess what... nobody complained about anything and because of the way he led there was even an "Is that all you got?" attitude amongst the guys. Morale was through the roof! We've been at this for a long time and folks are pretty burnt out. Ridiculous ideas like "everyone is a warrior" and "resiliency" coming from some commander who hasn't been in the fight for 4-5 years because he was off at Staff and School doesn't mean shit to that TSgt MX or SP troop who just PCS'd to Langley and is headed out on his 7th deployment while his recent ex-wife and young kids are still at Travis or McChord! Does he need to hear "suck it up" from his Sq or Wing Commander? You can't lead through e-mail and Commander's Calls and you certainly aren't going to lower suicide rates amongst a tired force with buzz words and CBT's