guineapigfury

I had a lot of hope for Schwartz along the same lines. I think most of the Air Force's problems lie in between the Squadrons and the CSAF.

The shortest route to any destination is usually proceeding direct. Be aware that there is an age limit for UPT, times a wasting. If you're set on fighters apply to units that fly those. Don't forget the Navy and Marines fly fighters as well.

If you're a generic Middle Eastern Autocrat a bloodthirsty but not particularly effective opposition is a useful thing. Moderate opposition might get US support, best to let the extremist opposition wipe them out. Then he plays the guy "who can be reasoned with".

Alcoholics go to meetings, stay away from those and you'll be safe.

It does. The Russians are a shell of their Cold War selves, but they're still a shell with nukes. They probably wouldn't appreciate their dudes getting killed. I don't think they'd go full retard, but they might cut off energy supplies to Western Europe right as winter hits. They'll let the Germans suffer for a few weeks, then offer to turn the spigots back on if we leave Assad alone. They'll point out he's not nearly as bad as ISIS after all and this would reduce that nasty refugee problem that's been in the news so much. They're gambling that with us having an election upcoming, the current administration will opt to declare victory and go home so the issue disappears before the primaries. How Obama reacts, I have no idea.

As long as you precede "Sir, take me off your fucking spam list" with "With all due respect" you should be good.

This sounds like a commercial for Bad Idea Jeans. You need to get her added to your orders. If she failed the medical/dental screening, DON'T BRING HER. Talk to your chain and get a different assignment if it comes to that. If she goes without SOFA status/being on your orders: no Japanese driver's license, no married rate OHA, no school for your kids if they lack sponsorship and so on. That said 18th Wing JAG is your relevant expert on the SOFA. Good luck.

So much this. Make them show you the reg. Kadena's other favorite is "it's in the SOFA". Usually it's not.

I'm 99.69% sure I'm separating ASAP, but I want the USAF to get better for the sake of my friends who are dumb/motivated/patriotic/stubborn enough to stay. I just don't think it will.

I'd like to see the breakout by airframe. I'd bet you have RQ-4 take rates pulling up the average. I don't know any of my peers in MQ-9s who plan on taking the devil's money. I'm also curious how they factor in separations to these numbers. If dudes are pulling chocks the day their UPT expires, do they end up in that denominator? Are the only counting 11Us as RPA guys? As someone stuck in this RPA bullshit, i'm inclined to regard any "good news" about the RPA community as either propaganda or outright lies.

I watched it once out of curiousity, but the shooter wanted us to watch it. So reason to both watch and not watch it. I enjoy a good strike video as much as the next guy, but it's different when those about to die are innocent people.

The background check only catches people with past issues. So if the shooter has no criminal history and no mental health record, then the system worked properly. People are often reluctant to report friends and family for mental health issues until it's too late. Someone knew there was something wrong with the Columbine shooters, Adam Lanza, Dylan Roof, the Aurora theater shooter and on and on. Noone called the cops, that's the DFP.

I think the video was taken by the murderer. The three victims are occupied with the interview and it looks like they don't notice he's there until the shooting starts. I could be wrong and I'm not inclined to watch it again.

OTOH, using the standard USAF PT shirt saves those soon to be Lt's the cost of a PT uniform later. I share your disdain for the crappy PT uniform.

I wouldn't worry about the contractors pulling dudes away. Guys would be leaving whether those good deals are there or not. Not being a USAF RPA pilot is the cake, contractor money is the icing on that cake.

We cannot adequately man the Active Duty CAPs we have now, and all indications point to us never being able to. Putting the CAP increase on outside agencies is a rare acknowledgement of the gravity of the manning situation. Now we just need to adjust the plan for contractor CAPs from 10/90 to 90/90.

Mad Max was pretty awesome in 3d, you've missed the boat on that at this point.

I don't think the dad to be attempted to change class dates, he was shocked they wouldn't let him leave. We were in the "allowed to leave base on the weekends" phase of training, the issue was him leaving town. I have no idea if you can change dates or not.

My gouge is 9 years old, so YMMV. A dude in my flight at OTS had a pregnant wife, she was due about 3/4 of the way through. Even though he had a good plan (leave on Friday afternoon, birth on Saturday, return on Sunday) he wasn't allowed to go. So he missed the birth. Our SQ/CC at the time was a notorious douchebag, so I'm not sure if this was OTS policy or just this dude being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. Hope you have better luck than my friend!

We'll know if that's a feasible plan when the 18Xers hit the end of their ADSCs.

If those separations are driving a crisis, then yes they should. That's what we have in RPAs right now. Clearly defined follow on assignments would help manning. If a guy shows up to an RPA squadron with 2 years of ADSC and no hope of going back, he's probably leaving at the first opportunity. If he's got a 3 year tour with a ticket back to his prior airframe, the USAF probably gets 3 years of RPA work out of him instead of 2. Or maybe he doesn't 7 day opt and the USAF gets 3 years of RPA work instead of zero.

It's generally not a waste to send a guy from RPAs to manned, because he'll stick around. The choice is often between sending a guy back to real airplanes or him separating.

Details man, you can't just leave us with nothing. They really should pull guys to the side beforehand and give them a heads up if they're getting an RPA.

DAFSC is not your core AFSC. 18A3A is what the position is coded for, this does not mean you are being recatted. If you wish to recat, you submit that request via your ADP. So unless you did that, you should still be an 11X. If you do recat, you become an 11U not an 18X.

No. Deployed commander, he got to finish his 365. He was almost relieved of command for some completely unrelated buffoonery. The only thing I could figure was that some other shit was going to hit the fan and they were keeping him around as a sacrificial lamb.