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UFB.

He didn't apply. Butters told him the airlines weren't just ice cream and blowjobs.

That's not necessarily true for some platforms, they can have a pretty damn small footprint compared to unmanned.

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This isn't the "What's right with the Air Force" thread.

http://youtu.be/vik-7MjKDa0

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

I bet it was the guy who steals your govt phone in the cyberawareness one.

We are well on our way to becoming AD. We have gone from 30 day deployments to 120-180 days. We have at least one wing with a active duty Wing Commander. Almost all Guard fighter units will have 1-5 active duty pilots in them, starting later this year (if they don't already). We are deploying Guard squadrons...just to deploy (cough...TSP). I have seen pressure being applied for our young guys to go SOS in-residence (how do we have money for this). Our OPRs have become downright ridiculous! How the fuck do you make an part timer OPR sound good enough to compete against a full time AD guy...they sure are trying! Rumblings of making a masters a requirement for O-6. I could go on and on. They are now sending Guard fighter squadrons on TSP. Deploying us to go fly CT, while they deploy another squadron to the desert. Otherwise put, deploying two squadrons to do the work of one. Deploy us to go drop bombs on shitheads, no problem. But deploy us to go fly CT, while you deploy another squadron to drop bombs, now you have a problem. You have now taken a bunch of part timers who would normally freely volunteer to deploy and turned them into ones that say, activate me. Of note, as the law currently is written, we are not USERRA exempt on TSP. Nothing like a non-voluntary trip counting against your five years of USERRA protection. As has already been said, the path we are taking leads to horrible attrition and losing what makes the Guard so great...experience!

Maybe I haven't been let into the super secret CAS club but when I fly CAS, I talk on two radios. I guess I've been blessed with the uncanny ability to manage a two position rocker switch- up for wingman, down for jtac. I don't always load shed but when I do, it's on top of bqzip's mom.