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    FY 14 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)

    in General Discussion

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    IIRC the last RIF was just a percentage cut across the board without AFSC exemptions. Is this something that is mandated by policy or can A1 tailor a RIF with whatever exemptions they direct (11X, 12X, etc)? What was released seems quite broad. Very little would surprise me these days, but if they didn't learn the lesson of cutting the 157 through non-continuation a few years ago and start to RIF any 11X with 15 plus years that was offered and accepted continuation... wow! I think they can technically do that, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong... I don't want to pass any bad info on here.

    I'm very curious if you can not be eligible for TERA (which applied to all rated dudes on the last go round) and still be eligible for the RIF?

    Non Continuation for passed over Majs

    in Squadron Bar

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    Can the PRFs be blank with a "P" or is there a narrative required?

    my boss required a narrative as if it was my in the zone board, but I highly, highly doubt I am going to get anything other than a P.

    I know other people were doing a narrative as well but if others are being sent up blank and its not standardized across the community that's BS

    Non Continuation for passed over Majs

    in Squadron Bar

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    I know I am dredging up old news, but I remember a couple of people were planning legal action after being non-continued on the 2011 LC board. Anybody have any ideas what happened there? I decided to steer clear since I was going into a Guard job. At the time, it seemed like their best case scenario was to be let back in as a passed over Maj and spend 4 more years doing back to back 365s.

    Totally just a rumor, but I heard recently that these guys were very likely to win the case. Granted, I just heard this from a friend but his "friend of a friend" told him that everything from reinstatement to early retirement (with possible back payments to separation) were on the table. I am very curious to see when and if news comes out about this because it doesn't look good for the AF at all and the guys who are offered packages may by happy enough to not go public with the results.

    Another very interesting development this year in passed over land is that we all have to submit PRFs, regardless of how many times you've met the ABZ board. There's no details from AFPC that I can find and my command is referring to me as promotion eligible. I have a feeling its a purely a paperwork drill but apparently this hasn't happened in a long time.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Catbox

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uRIMUBnvw

    trying to figure out how to embed this amazing piece called "Dear Woman".

    A drinking game could be made out of when you have to punch out of this dreck.

    I haven't made it past "we want to apologize and make amends for those (destructive masculine) actions so we can move forward into a new era of co-creation."

    edit: I made it half way through and I'm creeped out beyond words. My daughter is going to learn to shoot and shoot well, this creepy f**ks are scary as shit.

    Hagel alludes to pay increase cuts, retirement/Tricare changes

    in General Discussion

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    DOD asked for 1% pay raise next year. Obama said 1%. Congress wants to continue at 1.8%.

    As for the rest, the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission will take public comments again in a few months. See Obama's instructions to the commission here: http://assets.fiercemarkets.net/public/sites/govit/militarycompensation.pdf

    Remember...all changes have to make it through Congress...who has a 60+ year track record of mostly not ######ing with retirement/pay/benefits.

    This is absolutely true...

    But...what concerns me is in a bout 5-15 years the current "popularity" of the common soldier is going to wane and we will get a new generation in congress that mostly forgets or ignores the sacrifices that most of us have made during the last decade. Then military pay, retirement and benefits will be an easy target vs. vote getting entitlements.

    I would really like to see them start to reform the retirement and health care systems now before it truly is crunch time. I would bet that most people in the military who know enough to care would much rather have a better and cheaper 401k type retirement plan from their date of initial entry. I've got less than five years left at this point and they paycheck for life sounds great but I dont know if its sustainable. I would rather walk when I'm ready with MY money than a have lifetime guarantee from the gov't .

    Is this a social experiment to find racism?

    in General Discussion

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    German day on Saturday featured a caricature of a german girl in a Dirndl, with the anatomy and artistic merits approaching WWII nose art. Operations came to a complete stand still, the chow hall (excuse me, DFAC) was put on quarantine and we had an afternoon of mass breifings to talk about the evil of sexism that had been visited upon us. A few very brave young SrA got up and berated all the field grade officers for our insensitivity.

    They say that DFAC is closed for kitchen renovations but in reality, the AF sexism disinfection team is having to scrub the place from top bottom to remove the scourge of cartoon cleavage.

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    The hardest working DB in Hollywood.

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Tom Cruise may in fact be a D-Bag but has anybody ever taken TMZ seriously or tried to watch that thier trademark god-awful gossip show? Sure a room full of gay guys and plastic-surgery hack jobs can can come up a saucy quip about the "stars" but can't be expected to report truthfully, espcially on a target as easy as Tom Cruise.

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    Is this a social experiment to find racism?

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    I think this ethnic food lineup with pictures is ######ing awesome. And by the way, explain to me how this even remotely constitutes "racism."

    In the same way a pic of dudes wife in her mom bathing suit constitutes blatently offensive earth shattering sexual images...this constitutes racism.

    Of f*** I dont know. Isn't everything sexist and racist and xxxist anymore anyways?

    Is this a social experiment to find racism?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Catbox

    I'm currently at a well known undisclosed location close to the AG. All of the chow halls do ethnic food nights on any given day of the week; Monday=Taco Bar, Tuesday=Gyros, Friday=Pasta, etc...

    At the chow hall closest to ops someone has put up a white board welcoming people to the chow hall and then letting people know the menu of the day.

    No problem except recently there are drawings to accompany the ethnic menu nights. Taco Monday has included a Speedy Gonzalez and a luchadore mask. Italian Friday had Mario and Luigi with the words "you'sa welcoma to our-a Pasta night-a" and just yesterday the Curry bar had a picture of the Taj Mahal with the classic Apu/7-11 stereotype saying: "Thank you, come again."

    I am not offended by this in the slightest but then again there hasn't been a ruggedly handsome Marlboro man drawn in caricature on steak night. Maybe I'm a a little offended because the jokes are so bad. But having said that, in this day and age should I be reporting this? Is this a basewide test to see how many of us can spot racism when its being presented right in front of our very eyes? I'd hate to be the lone holdout of the shake down who's name was not checked off the "can spot bad stereotypes" list.

    Any help since the 'ol sticks and stones saying doesn't apply anywhere? Really looking for some senior leadership advice on this, should any be around.

    More SARC briefings soon.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Except...is she really able to give someone paperwork for having a picture of a girl in a swimsuit in a public area. If it's so wrong, didn't she violate the invisible-ink reg on putting the picture up by "testing" her unit?

    White male NCO: "Ma'am, you wanted to see me?"

    "Yes, I'm counseling you because I caught you red-handed displaying a picture of your family at the beach. Your wife is wearing a bathing suit. Clearly, you inspire and facilitate rapists."

    White male NCO: "Wait didn't you put a picture of a woman in a bathing suit out on a desk recently too?"

    "Yes, but that similar photo didn't inspire rapists because I was doing it because I'm writing an article about how good of a leader I am for the af.mil website."

    That was my thought exactly...the way she wanted to prevent "sexual harrasment" in the workplace was by...comitting "sexual harrasment" in the workplace.

    Ever Considered Expating?

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Catbox

    I was stationed at Soto Cano for a year. Honduras is an awesome, but dangerous place to live. I would never live where they are talking about building these cities. You'd probably be much safer setting up a town in Camp Bastion or FOB Shank.

    Yeah definitely something that has to be worked out, the Honduran free city idea was a little shaky because they were leaving security to the Honduran Gov't, like you said probably not a good idea. I believe John Mackey (founder of Whole Foods and a pretty committed classic liberal) also has a free city idea that he'd like to get going in Costa Rica where they citizens would be solely responsible for their own security. Both may be dangerous to start but my rational brain tells me that once these places are up and going, the crime and poverty that's so endemic would start to fade away.

    Stop Loss Cometh

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    Concur at P-gon. Like I said, senior leaders are not worried in the slightest (reference pilot bonus staying the same annually). A few disgruntled pilots on BODN does not a crisis make. Mark my words- pilots will stick around for the assurance of great compensation and a decent bonus program. As I've said all along, there are no studies to indicate even the hint of a troubling exodus of pilots to the airlines until 2017 earliest, if ever.

    You do not need to fear for the future of your beloved Air Force...it is in good hands.

    Ok but the recent past hasn't been so hot, the present is confusing as all hell...but you're saying the future is going to be smooth sailing?

    Airplane Repo

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    This is just like any other docu-drama, highly sensationalized. Every aviation docu-drama (Repo, Hurricane Hunter, Flying Wild Alaska) is so produced that every little thing is an emergency or a near-death situation. To aircrew, these shows are far from accurate and it makes you question any other show that deals in a subject matter that you're not an expert in.

    Do crab fishermen scoff at Deadliest Catch, probably. I still watch because I know jack-crap about crab fishing.

    Talk to BQZips mom, apparently she's taught lots of dudes crab fishing.

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    15 year retirements on the table

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Catbox

    The pre-decisional matrix is posted on the link within the message. No 11X or 12X's appear to be eligible from what I saw. The window to submit is very narrow. Mandatory 1 Nov retirement date with 60-90 days of leave means terminal leave is just around the corner.

    Were you looking at the FM Sustainment Matrix? What I wasn't clear on was this just a list of career field shortages/overages or was this a list of eligible AFSCs? As I'm looking at it the links seem to be broken and everything goes back to the original PDF doc.

    The not waiving deployment return date sucks becuase I imagine that so many people are going to beat down this door they wont offer it next year when I wont be deployment resricted from applying.

    However, I have to admit this is amazing step in the right direction.

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