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15 hours ago, Internationalmesa said:
Question for y’all, is there a list of issues that disqualify OCONUS for dependents? I can’t find much online
EFMP will check with the gaining doctor who gets to decide if they can support, so it’s very doctor and location dependent. The whole process is kind of a joke for some of the stuff people get denied for.
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57 minutes ago, di1630 said:
I hear non-coyote brown Friday shirts are soon to be gone via the new uniform reg update.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appYeah but you can wear an OCP patrol cap in your flight suit so it’s fine.
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On 3/11/2023 at 5:30 AM, BashiChuni said:
I wonder what it could be! 💉
Crazy! Almost like there is a new virus in the world that can kill people!
im not arguing any view actually, but I need more than tabloid headlines to draw an actual conclusion.
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7 hours ago, ATIS said:
'Don't know for sure"....."might have been a factor"??
A lot of two-stepping around the one thing she didn't discuss or put forth; did the member(s) have C-19 and what was the VAX status of said expired member(s) of society in the 25-44 year old age group.
"What we do know" is when the transition from pure reporting of the data in the study went sideways into the unverified.
IMO, you can't draw a relationship between C-19 and the increase, it's still an unknown. But I guess that's doesn't stop this from being broadcast to the masses.
Her husband situation makes this discussion more interesting, although on a personal level I am sorry for her loss.
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Either you are pro vax and the rise in heart attacks is because you hate science and caught COVID, or you are anti vax and anything negative that’s happened in the last 2 years is because a vax exists. No chance COVID being in the world on its own made heart attacks go up regardless of anyone’s actions. No middle ground allowed on this forum. Get your logic out of here.
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2 hours ago, FLEA said:
Suffice to say, most companies paying hourly do not compensate you if you call in sick. Lots of people living pay check to pay check--simply cannot do this. To categorize an entire population of people as lazy or flakes I think is a mischaracterization of what is actually happening in our labor force.
That was my point, a lot of generalizations of entire parts of the population.
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10 hours ago, filthy_liar said:
nsplayer I'm not sure your "not sure if you are a troll" or "out of touch" is going to work here. People that are earning low income are not showing up to work, not because they are staying home because they are sick. Do you not understand that? Do you really not understand that?
So there is not a single low income hard worker out there, they ALL just want to take advantage of the system?
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1 hour ago, Prosuper said:
But from non rated officers in all the support functions they get leadership roles with enlisted troops when they are 2Lt's to until they get passed over for Major and leave as Capt.'s. This flying stuff really screws up more than it helps.
Sure. I’d argue flyers also get leadership as Lts and Capts. I’d say better leadership, but they don’t learn how to manage a squadron as well as the support side. Those arguments elicit a lot of feelings though.
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1 hour ago, Muscle2002 said:
Even now, we have GOs and senior O6s with less than four years of command time. I know a few who did a quick one-year squadron command tour, followed later with a one-year wing vice commander stint, and then wing command.
Great point actually. Get rid of group command and potentially a 1 year EOSS then 2 years as wing king and that’s it.
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4 hours ago, dream big said:
Been saying this for years. Want to improve QOL for maintainers? Get rid of the AMXS and PCA everyone to the flying squadron. Marines and Navy have no problem with this model. 0-4 leadership position is MX OIC as a pilot. Not sure if it would make sense to fuse the MXS side as well. In any case, along those lines, I say get rid of all Groups and transition to an A-Staff model where Squadrons report directly to the Wing. I believe Mt Home and some other bases have already done that. My army coworkers look at my sideways when I tell them we have 0-6 Group Commanders and 0-6 Wing Commanders.
Your Army buddies also command as Captains. I don’t disagree with your logic but it’s not totally apples to apples. Without group command we potentially have GOs with 4 total years in command. We would need to change more than just getting rid of groups I thinks. Longer or more commands possibly.
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15 minutes ago, FLEA said:
If you are measuring by manpower alone, then no. But if you are measuring by accumulated power (industrial, machine, materiel and assets) then yes, we do.
This is a really useful site I go back to often for evaluating force strengths:
Some websites power index measurement is not a standing army. I’d agree we have the most powerful military, but it’s not the largest. Our Army in 1865 was larger than our army now.
Topic at hand, fund Ukraine, let them fight our near peer for all the reasons previously stated including doing the right thing. For your point on downsizing, we have to be careful deciding to drastically cut our military and use it to fund friendly militaries because not everyone may stay friendly forever, and we are giving them the say on what the appropriate use of the military is. I’m not against looking at our budget, but we need to know what we are getting ourselves into.
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3 hours ago, FLEA said:
We are geographically the most secure country on the planet but have the largest standing army in history.
While large, we don’t even have the largest standing army in the world today let alone in history.
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We promote peacetime managers who make organizations numbers look good, for the most part. Sometimes we get lucky and those managers are also good leaders.
This isn’t new. There is a reason we fire a bunch of our senior leaders every time we have a major war. Luckily we haven’t had a major war in a long time. That also means we forgot what we want in a wartime leader.
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7 hours ago, Bender said:
After tanking pilot production for years at END, tanking pilot production at CBM last year, working its way through DLF this year…this monstrosity is up for a syllabus conference next month.
The draft already has a massive overhaul…shocking (for the better though). That syllabus, at this point, is like walking backwards and forwards at the same time.
Some revisions should help, but until there is real progress in artificial instruction and a learner-centric learning management system, things will only continue to revert back to where it started from (not that many would complain about that).
This T-6 syllabus has been such a mess and distracting, the actual 2.5 syllabus still isn’t done yet…not even close.
It took years, as is standard, right up to the wire, but the execution of the T-1 was stayed at the last hour by Congress. We’ll see how that plays out…
~Bendy
Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile appCongress saved the T-1?
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On 10/8/2022 at 9:58 AM, Boomer6 said:
I guess. I’m pretty indifferent about the vax but some of y’all are just as bad attacking the vax as your meme about people defending it.
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3 hours ago, Boomer6 said:
The apologists did not disappoint.
Neither did the vax haters
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3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Except USAF doesn't want anymore C-130s, nor does the Army. FYI only 8% of the Army's rolling stock actually fits on the C-130, a problem Lockheed has known about for a LONG time and they don't care to fix.
We had the chance to make this right, then Lockheed forced the J on us and we just took it.
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15 hours ago, brabus said:
The UK has banned Covid vax for 12 and under, because they actually use logic and follow science. But yeah, you’re correct progressive white couple living in a million $ house, you do know better than an entire country’s scientific and medical community. Yay Bernie!
They also completely locked down there country multiple times, where all travel was illegal except to get food. Was that based on logic and science as well? I feel like the answer is there was more than one answer but nobody will admit anything but their answer was correct.
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5 hours ago, FLEA said:
So sort of spin back to hypocrisy here and what to do about it.
Ignore the fact it's fox and it's one sided, but the content of the tweets themselves. This is honestly a fantastic analysis of political press hypocrisy. It's not that Fox News doesn't use similar techniques, but when they are pointed out it is incredibly pointed at showing how language can alter the take away from an article. I'm wondering if a tool that scans and points out loaded press language would be useful at increasing the size of the first two standard deviations of the electorate.
I regularly flip between Fox and CNN to see the spin words each use in an article. It’s frustrating to not have a neutral main stream media, but it seems like most people just want to watch whatever confirms their own views.
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5 hours ago, dream big said:
Your wing execs should be fired. There are growing pains with the new system but at this point the wing execs are useless if they can’t at least help with basic processing. I’d reach out to your MPF, try to speak to an OIC. If they can’t help you (I hope not) then try to get a hold of someone at AFPC. I know how frustrating it is to be in your shoes.
You say that but depending on where you are Evals have ground to a haunt.
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6 hours ago, FourFans130 said:
edit: I went over to the money thread...time I'll never get back...and realized what Random Guy really is, so I'll stop feeding the troll.
I was surprised how many are feeding him.
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5 hours ago, precontact said:
C-17 was almost cancelled due to an array of designs issues but had emerged to be an excellent weapons system.
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/1113line/
“But the project was hardly an engineering milk run. The C-17 was being asked to do things a giant airlifter had never done before, such as land on unimproved airstrips, land on short fields, taxi in a tight space, and even back up on a runway, all while delivering superheavy, outsize cargo at strategic distances.
The C-17 had to overcome flight-control problems, wings that were unable to carry their designed maximum load, automation growing pains, and a crew size reduced to just two pilots and a loadmaster. There were also teething problems in using new computer-aided design methods.
The program’s early years were troubled. Several generals and a host of company managers were fired during development and initial production.
The C-17 was threatened with cancellation, and Pentagon leaders delivered an ultimatum that if it couldn’t be shaped up, some other transport aircraft—such as a cargo version of the Boeing 747—would be substituted.”
By excellent you mean an aircraft that is still dwarfed by a C-5 and is slow as a strat airlifter, and destroys the dirt airfields it lands on when performing the tac role. Good all purpose aircraft but not great at any one thing.
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5 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Valid...I am biased. Know them both and I know how hard Welsh tried and what he was up against. I think I've posted the story before but I recall a conversation with Boomer about an ongoing ugly AF issue, he took a sip of his drink and replied "you would be surprised how little power the CSAF actually has." As per the design of our Constitution civilians get the final say and those "appointed" to be service secretaries often have other political agendas.
I've known Mini for 28 years but have not spoken with him in a few years. As a captain/IP he was a great pilot and a solid bro who took care of folks, I never saw a single act of careerism. When he was the Wing/CC at Andrews I reached out for helping hiring one of my former Flight Engineers and Mini went to great lengths to help the guy who was eventually hired. Others may have other data points but my observation so far is he is trying to break some of the dogmatic thinking.
Also, interesting Welsh and Minihan were at Moody at the same time (Welsh was the OG, Mini was an IP).
We shall see...at least it's not CZ or Rat.
My guess is some Capt WO had this as an idea for a deployment situation and wanted to try it now instead of when shit kicks off. Instead of just killing it, Mini said well let’s try this out of the box thinking and see if it’s feasible. I also assume they went into it knowing the answer may end up being no. However instead of just killing the idea he empowered the people to try it in a controlled environment, the stuff most of us want. But the memo leaked and we lost our minds because we all made assumptions about why the memo was created, the long term intent, and the classic “that’s not how we’ve always done it”. People read way too much into this. Maybe I’m just looking at this with my glass half full.
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6 hours ago, otsap said:
The judge in Doster v. Kendall just this morning certified a class action including all Air Force, Space Force, Guard/Reserve, Cadets, etc, and issued a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the AF from taking adverse action against unvaxxed members who filed a Religious Accommodation Request that is either still being processed or was denied. The TRO lasts 14 days, DoD has 7 days to respond and argue against class certification. At that point the judge either accepts DoD's argument, unlikely IMO, or more probably issues a Preliminary Injunction.
Curious how this works since for a lot of people the religious accommodation is acknowledged but then not having the vaccination is incompatible with service after the religious accommodation which is the reason for separation.
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35 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
Hypothetical situation: someone is selected for O-5, but set to retire 1 May. Pin-on date works out as 1 Apr but they started terminal 1 Mar. Do they retire as an O-5? Not talking pay (high-3), talking rank only.
You have to hold your rank for 3 years to retire as that rank, so they would retire 1 May as a Lt Col and be a Major, retired the next day.
EFMP (Exceptional Family Member Program)
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I’ve seen this happen all the time, and it almost always is overturned and allowed after causing a ton of stress and delays. Sometimes it happens during people’s pack outs. It’s ridiculous. And most of the time it’s the gaining doctor just not wanting to add anymore “non-normal” cases because it’s hard…….