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Behold, what your cyber force is doing -

What? MGM did 180 with no swap out.

No, this is the most intense motivational speech of all time...

People go nuts with ABU mods. Creasing the sleeves is step 1, followed shortly by sticking shit in the hats to make them stiffer. Then the real insanity begins. "I don't put anything in these shirt pockets, so I'll sew them shut! And on the pants too, that'll be real high speed!" Next is buying a coffee can hat I guess. But the real crazy one, the one that shows you've lost all normal human reasoning, is sewing down the collar all the way around the neck. I've only seen it once, but it was heinous. Looked like one of those shitty 3d video game characters from ADLS.

This is to get an initial CFI certificate through mil comp vice simply renewing a certificate that has already been issued. Shack on the renewal -American Flyers for renewals is worth every penny. In the Pensacola/Eglin/Hurlburt area, the servicing FSDO is up in Birmingham -a four hour drive one way. It's also not located on an airfield. The DPE's logic was "You can take a day of leave, drive up to Birmingham and get the FSDO to do it, or I can do it over lunch for $200. Your call."

I think that was a misquote in the article. The idea is a 1:3 dwell would be 1 year gone, 3 years back. Although according to the article and Hargett's testimony, it seems evident he and Guard leadership are willing to volunteer us for any dwell ratio so long as it retains force structure / iron in the Guard. The guard used to be 1 generation behind in terms of equipment - IE, AD was flying F-16's, we were flying A-7s. Guard leadership has made an incredible push over the last 25 years to get us the latest equipment, but at what cost? The F-35 will be the death of the Guard in my opinion, if we get it. Amen. I'm not sport bitching, as I have options right now as do many of my bros. I'm seriously concerned about the Guard's ability to maintain force structure in light of increased ops tempo and becoming more like the AD. If Guard leadership were playing long ball, they would push congress to get us airplanes suited to the homeland defense mission / occasional CAS deployment (Block 60's? Javelin?) and avoid the F-35 like the plague. Getting top of the line equipment isn't going to be good for the Guard - it will just ensure that we're deployed more, leading to retention problems. Gotta love Generals - they just can't help but beg for bright and shiny - after all, it won't be them looking down the barrel of the next 180.

Problem is that people ARE going to walk away and find another job. You can't quickly replace the experience they walk away with by hiring someone off the street, so you end up with a less capable force and more guys are going to die in wartime and training accidents. Sport bitching is one thing, highlighting issues that will hurt our ability to safely execute the mission is another. Guys are bailing on AD to the guard to get family stability and be home more. If the guard goes to a 1:3 with 180 day rotations for fighter units (180 days are already happening), that will no longer be true and more guys will straight up separate. I already know multiple fighter guys who's fini flight on AD was their no shit fini flight because they saw the guard as more of the same. A 1:2 AD dwell time sucks, but for many guys that really ends up being more like 1:3 or 1:4 after skipping deployments due to PCS's, school, etc. That doesn't happen nearly as much for part timers, so they may actually end up deploying as much or more than their AD buddies. There's also the civilian job issue. Airlines and other companies may not be able to fire guys for deploying for six months every 18, but if that military guy is a private practice doctor, lawyer, or small business owner, who is going to force their clients to come back when they return? The active duty pilot exodus has begun, but if the guard and reserve isn't careful, the same might happen on that side in a few years.

The difference with the fighters is that they are all that's left of ADC. The alert mission is a valid one. I don't think flying a B-2 is. Can the Missouri governor even mobilize them for state missions? Ferguson would really need to be rioting for that to make sense.

Nearly everything has been heading this way. The progressives and the elites love centralized power as it gives them more power and more control. The States began ceding this power many years ago and (usually) it just continues to get worse and worse, so why would the Guard be any different? If you're going to cut the AD but continue to have the same obligations, of course the Reserve and Guard are going to be affected. The Republic has been deteriorating for quite some time...

Kind of sounds like whining to be honest. Don't like less than a 1:5 dwell? Find another job. Supply/demand dictates everything, no one is entitled to sit here in a "good deal" lifestyle.

The AF needs to open up more ANG units to fill these caps and make it easier for guys to transition into these roles. I think this is the perfect job for a part-time traditional guardsman. I separated at 10+ years and have a lot of experience working a pod and dropping bombs in combat in the B-1 and I would love to do this in the Guard. I was interested in a position at Ellington Field but you had to be a fully-qualified pilot or current RPA guy. I was willing to go through the 18X training but that wasn't an option. The AF is losing a lot of valuable experience when guys separate that they could keep on board in the ANG.

Google "ASU coeds"

69x better and more useful than the current SARC brief but the stick figures are naked so this video is offensive and could cross the red line of jokes, rape, swimsuit magazines, forceable sodomy, being a pilot, etc.

Spot on, but for some reason the AF has decided that flying a T-1 in UPT somehow permanently prevents someone from having the ability to fly fighters or bombers. So instead of attempting to cross flow trained pilots to fill fighter shortages they try to offer insane bonuses. Unreal.