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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    I personally know two who were passed over for O-5 and not continued.
    I wonder if this is decision will apply to the Major board as well.

    I want to say no, but by what logic are they not continuing Majors? Why would that not apply to captains?

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    The Next President is...

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    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/national-security-adviser-mcmaster-trump-s-revelations-russians-wholly-appropriate-n760136
    McMaster said: "I was in the room, the Secretary of State was in the room, as you know, the deputy adviser for national security, Dina Powell, and none of us felt in any way that conversation was inappropriate."
    Sooooo...someone is lying?

    No no, WaPo had an anonymous source. Who ya gunna trust?

    I don't think this is about Trump anymore. I think it's very convenient for the opposition that's he's such a public persona disaster, because normally they have to completely invent things to be outraged about. But really this seems more like the desperate flailing of a party that has almost ZERO power at the federal, state, that local levels right now. And he may seem ridiculous on TV and Twitter, but so far his policies are not.

    This is how he got elected, folks. Act nuts, look nuts, sound nuts, but speak truths the other politicians won't speak. If he keeps hammering through on the action side of things (Gorsuch, dismantling EPA rules, undoing net neutrality, Obamacare repeal, immigration enforcement, etc), I don't think the people who fancy themselves "in charge" are going to be able to stop him. They failed quite spectacularly during the election, why should the same strategy work now?

    But if the investigation into Russian collusion yields nothing, he's going to be rubbing it in their faces very publicly in 2020


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    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

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    I just love the idea that the president of the United States isn't a high enough authority to decide what classified information we share.

    Isn't this the same line of reasoning our generals use to claim they can't change things to make the AF better?

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    What should the Air Force be if it is so broken now?

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    Not confused. I think the dude's an ass, but that's beside the point. GC did such a good job mimicking some of the rated "managers" I've talked to before that--if he's an operator--he must've spent a helluva lot of time around them. In his new personality, he rants about the need for operators to take control of A1--further suggesting familiarity with AF A1 . . . yet he recoils at the fact he's assumed to be a personnelist.
    In the end, I'm with nsplayr--he needs to go with quals. It would be neat if he shared value-added data related to AF rated management, but I'm not holding my breath.
    TT

    Ok, I get what your saying, but I don't think he has to have been near it to fake it.

    Let's be real, the cartoonish disconnect from reality and blind fealty to a system that clearly has no rudder is so simple and pure it can almost be said to be perfect. All you have to do to mimick it is disregard reality and never admit defeat. GC was so effective in the troll because he never tried to engage with logic or actually respond to arguments posed against his propaganda. Sound familiar?

    I for one applaud him. He played us, which is an internet staple, and catalyzed some great debate that I've used in my real-life interactions with the General Changs of the Air Force who aren't joking.

    I do think he should state quals, but not AF quals, rather, I want to know what his other account name is. Put an internet face to the internet mask, so to speak.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    MAF is "extremely healthy"? Are you living under a rock? I spoke to a major at a tanker unit a few weeks back who said he was the only major that he knows of in the past year PCS'ing to a follow on assignment. Everyone else at his base is getting out.

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    Rumor has it that Fairchild is PCSing the first major in five years who wasn't going to school or on an adsc.

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    What should the Air Force be if it is so broken now?

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    You need to ask yourself what bought the 1,000 lb gorilla down on the backs of the flying community?
    I remember a former female Lt Col who was prior enlisted. She told me the people who treated her the worst at the Pentagon was a certain "flying community." As a personnelist, she was sharp and I loved garnering advice from her. A lot of people have said this about a certain community in the AF behind closed doors. Maybe they are conspiring against this community? When I come to this forum and read the future CSAF may not be a pilot makes me wonder if we caused our own downfall. Is the support side rising against us (conspiracy theory)?
    What squadron had a complaint filed against them by their SARM office for inappropriate material? When you get turned in by the SARM office you have really rubbed a bunch of E's responsible for your flight hours and flight pay the wrong way. 
    A certain community was spinning up a different branch to fly their platform. Someone thought passing around a dildo and placing it into flight bags was hilarious. Reach for your thermos only to pull out a dildo. Well, those professional officers of a different branch didn't think it was funny and filed a complaint.
    We all know what caused leadership to come down on us. You just can't crap all over the people who support us for one. Two, we all need to know there is a time and place to be a professional. When a different branch complains about a dildo prank you have to do some soul searching as a community. 
     

    Between this and the thread where you complain that Junior officers and enlisted are too open with those that outrank them, you seem like you'd be on the General Chang side of the debate. But then your username, and other posts where you lay waste to the Air Force make it seem like you'd be more on the BaseOps.net-regular side of the debate.

    Do you know Ryan Ryanerson (spelling)? Also known here as PickYourBattles or PYB. You remind me of him. Furious at the Air Force (and authority in general), so he figured he'd fit in well with the people here. But aside from being super awkward socially, he was cross with the AF for completely different reasons, and often 180-off on actual leadership issues in the Air Force, like, I dunno, saying a big problem we face is Junior officers being too comfortable talking to senior officers.

    I guess ultimately I'm saying that you're wrong. But also that I get the vibe you're more mad at "leadership" for not inviting you into their club, and that you'd sell all of us out in a microsecond if they ever gave you the invite.

    But I have no clue who you are, so who knows?

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    The cadet email thread

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    O-5, Command list, flying with the majors now.  Didn't hurt my professional livelihood at all.

    Did you ever come to regret your email, or at least decide you would have done things differently? For reasons other than the ass chewing.

    How strange the internet is. I was talking to George about that email over a decade ago, and now I'm in a forum with you.

    Glad you didn't get anything more than the punishment you deserved. I don't know what he was like then, but Kwast is a pretty good dude as a 3 Star.

    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    As I stated several pages ago, like it or not, the af makes a quality cut at track select. There are plenty of exceptions .... 

    A better way to phrase it (back in 2013 at least, though I can't imagine it's gotten better), is that the AF wants to make a quality cut. When I turned down a T-38 (2009), it was only one of three for my class, and the next guy was still in the top third of the class. With classes having 5 or 6 -38s, and even more people choosing T-1s for lifestyle/career/whatever reasons, sometimes people got -38s that the resident fighter pilots didn't believe were of the correct caliber.

    But they went anyways, because, as the RTUs are facing (I hear), the AF is going to get it's numbers, and the denominator, in this case training, can always be changed to normalize the results.

    No more off base TDY reimbursement

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    51 minutes ago, ihtfp06 said:

     


    The problem is that we have commanders disciplining people when they don't actually cause the gov't any extra expense. If I don't want to stay at the VQ, and am willing and able to pay out-of-pocket the difference between off-base and VQ, why should I be punished for doing so? There is no legitimate military necessity for me to stay on base; it should be unlawful for a commander to order me to do so.


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    This is not entirely accurate. The whole reason we have hotels on base is so they can get their hands on the travel money. They lose it all when you go to a Marriott. I'm not saying I agree with the strategy, but if you don't think Wing Commanders are constantly updated on how well the revenue generators are doing, you're incorrect. 

    It's the same thing with the O-Clubs. Of course the AF, in it's perpetual quest to deny the long-established fundamentals of business and human motivation (pilot retention, alcohol policies, sexual assault training, mandatory fun runs, etc), has determined that the way to make a restaurant/hotel/bowling center profitable is not to increase the quality and value of the product to increase volume of sales, but to instead limit alternative options through restrictions and mandatory attendance. 

    You know... just like Amazon incentivizes you to shop there by banning you from Best Buy.

    No more off base TDY reimbursement

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    Posted · Edited by Lord Ratner

    On 2/24/2017 at 2:39 AM, faipmafiaofficial said:

    Where does it say they can override the JTR and order you to stay on base? Been looking for a week for this

    It's not about overriding. The JTR only specifies what you get paid. So your commander cannot stop you from getting paid, if it happens. But your commander can order you not to do something that you would get paid for BEFORE you do it, and it would be legal. Then, if you disobeyed, you would still get paid per JTR rules, but you can be punished for not following an order. 

    Two examples. You have a TDY coming up, leaving from an airport 45 minutes away. Commander tells you to use the base shuttle service to save the squadron money. You're a piece of shit, so you just take a cab because you didn't want to use the base long-term parking lot. JTR says you will be reimbursed for the cab. Commander says you get an LOR for telling her you would use the shuttle. Both happen.

    You, a C-17 AC assigned to UPT, want to take a T-6 to San Francisco for the 2017 Brony convention in the Castro district. Commander says the squadron can't afford it. You tell him you and your hetero life partner, a FAIP, will stay at a friend's house in Alameda to save the squadron mad cash. But when you get there, your FAIP mentor immediately finds himself overwhelmed by a deluge of nonbinary polysexual panda-kin sex addicts. Swept away by the raw sexual fury and unkempt body hair of your fellow Brony convention-goers, you decide to each get your own hotel rooms in the heart of San Fran, where the lodging per diem is a conservative $12,500 per night. After returning to Vance in what can best be described as the moistest T-6 in the fleet, you submit your travel voucher. Seconds later, the lights go out, because your voucher was so expensive the squadron had no choice but you use the pot of money dedicated to utilities to fund your pseudo intra-species erotica vacation. Your commander, who for some reason looks just like a certain purple Clydesdale you got way too close to over the weekend, is reasonably upset. Per JTR rules, you must be reimbursed for the lodging. Per UCMJ and AFI, your commander is entitled to rip off your souvenir unicorn horn and stab it straight through your lying heart. 

    See? Discipline and reimbursement are separate issues. 

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