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I understand this, but the Officer administering the oath should have exercised sound tactical judgement and heard "So help me God", whether the reenlistees said it or not. If he didn't immediately see the blatant unconstitutionality at play here and recognize the enormous black eye this is going to inflict on the Air Force then he isn't fit to wear his rank on his shoulders. We were taught at OTS that officer's may use their moral authority to deviate from the rules when it makes sense, this is one of those times.

Hopefully they train them on the time honored "Syrian lead turn".

Tulsa, your second paragraph captures the problem. You didn't make the news because you figured out the problem and broke the mishap chain. Nobody has an accurate count of how many times the A-10 or the B-1 got it right. It doesn't matter how many bridges you built...

You have to understand the Army mindset to this. I can have artillery dropped anywhere on the map with nothing more than "hey you this is me, target at grid XY12345678. Request blank on my command." Why should 4 extra lines not result in the same level of capability. The Army views you as a bigger more powerful form of artillery, not a maneuver platform so you put iron where you are told, when you are told. Like I said, just the Army mindset. Is it perfect, no but it is the level of simplicity needed when you are talking about people that are operating on a much different picture than yours as far as a battlefield chess board. and seriously.... Are guys gonna start a pissing contest on miss ID of a target that the JTAC failed to properly pass by all accounts on B1. Because the records of the A-10 communities frat events speaks against at. having Mark 1 eye ball at low altitude hasn't stopped some of the more public "oh shit" incidents in daylight no less that were often attributed to JTAC procedural errors, but people seem to be quick to call out bone for living life at altitude through a sniper pod and not recognizing/second guessing the JTAC.

That's not what happened. Re-enlistee scratched thru the phrase on his enlistment form. FSS wouldn't accept the form with the phrase scratched out, since the duly enacted law of the land says he's gotta have the phrase on the form and say it in the oath. The AF recognized the AF was in the wrong to permit deviations in the oath and fixed it with a reg change. Obeying the reg is complying with US code. Nothing unethical or immoral about that. Like it was said a couple of posts up: the beef should be with US code, not the AF. And...if the kid valued serving more than making a public political statement, he'd not have defaced his enlistment paperwork and mumbled the phrase in the ceremony "so hand me grog" or similar.

Bro, My wife failed the medical clearance on our way out to Japan. I did everything in my power to get us both out there and eventually did. Her situation deteriorated and Medical drug it's feet fixing it making a bad problem horrifically worse. It destroyed my marriage (finishing up the divorce now). If one of your family members fails the medical screening for an assignment .... DON'T GO.

Was curious about this one, so googled up the reg and the US code it references: the US code requires the "So help me God" phrase. AF was apparently wrong to permit omission of the phrase in the reg, so they released a reg change to fix that glitch. Until congress changes the US code, the oath shall contain the phrase. So if you're re-enlisting, you gotta sign and say it.

A dip check before dropping the JDAMs while on NVGs would have solved this problem. But Bones are the best CAS platform.

You mean doing CAS is more than just strapping a TGP to anything that flies? Quick, tell this to USAF leadership, oh too late, they could care less about CAS except when boasting stats. 5 people died, yeah that was months ago and they were Army guys so they won;t count against our yearly fatalities on ppt. Just tell the premier B-1 CAS crews they can't see IR strobes in the TGP and to keep doing the best they can. The Hog...pffft, we'll try to get it out of the picture next year again. An F-35 with the helmet would have seen the strobes. That's the solution...the F-35. Oh, and tell the Army guys to get their shit together...CAS is simply the Army telling the aircrew coordinates and having a bomb dropped on the grids...its not tough, any USAF plane can do it.

The wet berka contest on Friday night is going to be legit. Uncovered ankles will be plentiful.

What the hell's soccer?