Lord Ratner
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whatever, you're all so tough behind your keyboards, I was just saying its not normal to get loaded at work, and you all tackle me. And I didn't realize this wasn't corporate America, consider me informed now.
You're not a victim, you're a survivor.
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I respectfully disagree. The only way they're going to learn their lesson is if they're forced to stick to the original plan. Going DNIF forces them to use the people who are staying (people like me), making it more likely they'll realize the s*** storm they put us in.###### no. I will leave with my dignity intact. I'll do everything in my power to get out (VSP, Palace Chase, Palace Front, 7 day opt, whatever other program they dream up...) but I'm not going to lie and pass my bad deal to you. I'm not going to look my son in the eye and tell him I got what I wanted because I lied.
Letting them deploy you after VSP is no different than staying late to get ready for an inspection you were told "you don't need to get ready for". Sure you're helping out the bros, but you're allowing the Air Force to kick the can further down the road.
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It's not.Please let this still be true. I'm headed to Mildenhall and my chamber expires in 6 months!
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Cool dude. Since we don't do that in KC-135s, you can put your fighter boner back in your pants.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You literally broke my sarcasm meter. That is the dumbest shit i've ever read…so it must be fake.
I can't begin to tell you how many FAIPS who were supposed to know their shit, could untuck a shoelace tangle, much less lead a formation, play with JTACs, put bombs on target or put gas in the tanks…..Like anything, it has more to do with the individual than the label my man. I've seen butter bars make the FAIP look retarded when it comes down to actual CAF shit and not just flying the ILS 15 at KTIK x10 with a chipotle break in between. But then again plenty of FAIPS roll in, shut their mouth, don't pretend to know a damn thing about anything outside AETC, and ######ing rock the world around them with ease. Again, individual, attitude, etc…not labels.
Unless Azimuth recently started instructing at the B course, that is... But I doubt it.
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There should be a thread about FAIP's that go to the FTU/RTU for their follow on MDS.
It would be a boring thread for your FTU. You get put into a transition class with 2-4 people, and every sim and flight is 90% talking about different bases/assignments, and 10% being told "you already know this stuff, you were a FAIP/C-17/F-15/MC-12/C-5/whateverelse pilot before."
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Background - prior T-6 FAIP at Columbus AFB.
UPT isn't new. You aren't needed for anything, because the system is designed to accommodate terrible SROs. I'm going to disagree with a few people here, but some of this is more AF-general advice (for a low level superior) than UPT specific.
Leave and special events - It's not your job to approve/disapprove leave, it's the Flight/CC's. If they don't make the policy clear in the first week (most will), you can ask for the overall policy and relay to the class. You won't get in trouble for asking if you do it with the required respect, so always ask. Good deals don't often go to those who don't ask. Think of yourself as a union rep, at best. It's always your job to advocate for your class, and never to limit them. The IPs will be more than happy to take care of the dream crushing. Make sure you are the one asking though. As union rep, it should all be funneled through you.
SNACKO - The squadron should have an actual SNACKO, your class will be the slave labor. Do what you're told. Not much to say about this, really.
EPQs, GK, Stand-up - The program is run by the USEM. Don't cheat. That's the standard disclaimer. There is a history of cheating, but the tolerance for such activities is unpredictable. Make study guides, or if you have someone in the flight who is a study-holic, see if they will make them. Arrange for study groups, practice sessions, etc. The weak students won't always seek help (shame), and some will not like being singled out, so create group opportunities that your class can take advantage of (union rep). Don't force anyone. UPT is an individual challenge in a group setting.
Here's the most important thing you can do as SRO - Make sure everyone is where they need to be on time. Most of the time you can't have people showing early or staying late for crew rest reasons (you'll be taught all of this), so you have to be vigilant. Tardiness is an easy kill, so stomp it out. If your class is always lined up in the flight room when the door is kicked, with the correct uniform, patches, briefing built, and chores completed, you'll be in great shape.
Oh, and a good offering won't hurt. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but at CBM the studs would normally build a pyramid of import beers at the back of the room on day 1. It's also a great first AF lesson in identifying the "not-required" things you should do anyways.
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Valid, but the stats for both are scary.Not to quibble, but HIV does not equal AIDS...
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I'm not trying to compare the military demographic to DC, but if you want a shocking look at just how common aids is, take a gander at how many cases there are in the capitol city.He's probably asking about the dozen HIV cases per base. If true, that's a surprising statistic.
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Haha, I would die if they put the rotating, flaming email gif on the portalRemembers in the 90s when people were making awful websites on Geocities and Tripod....
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So you're the guy that got gmail blocked on NIPR.
I know it varies by base, but many have www.gmail.com blocked, but mail.google.com is not.
You know, because I'm sure Google is less secure than our cracker jack assembly of 1990s-era websites.
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Personally I'd take the LICWO route. The rotator to Osan is an ass pain; commercial direct to Seoul is the way to go. I bet there's a pretty solid chance you can book what you want and not pay a dime out of pocket, or if you do it'll be very minimal. I would take a serious look at it with SATO before you scoff that option.
Be advised, JFTR 5116d prohibits personally procuring tickets for trans oceanic PCS. you may get away with it, but if they know the regs, you'll eat the cost.
Bottom line, 11-217, 11-202, 11-2X-### vol 3, JFTR. Know them all.
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I won't impugn the pilot based on one article. But in a hypothetical scenario based only on the facts laid out in the article, the hypothetical pilot seems to have made a couple pretty bad decisions. And if navs were real people, that hypothetical nav would have good reason to be pretty pissed for the bonus lifetime of back pain.
Glad they both lived, hope someone had beer waiting for them after that one.
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Yup. And operating out of a forward operating base in addition to the AFCENT lines. It's a different Mildenhall than those days I've been told. It's OK, we just got rid of the TDYs to compensate.Can't confirm but I'm assuming they're still deploying. Too many good opr bullets from deploying....
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I have to (gasp) agree with Toro here. That's just ######ing stupid. In a crew plane, that's what I call being too lazy to brief up the ILS. Here we are too lazy to cross check anything...it's amazing these people don't stall, crash, burn, and die more often.
If one is going to fly a visual into an airfield, tune up a navigational aid or load the FMS and be sure it's at least the right airport, if not for the actual approach.
I fly visuals into airfields at night, and sometimes it's because I'm too lazy to brief the ILS.
Not quibbling, I'm actually agreeing with your main point. You don't have to go through all the 202/217/11-2X-XXXv3 procedures to throw an ILS in as a sanity check. Hell, most planes let you program a visual approach into the FMS in about 10 seconds, no briefing required. I hate ILS approaches, the long vectors, controllers in training, looking at mini TVs instead of outside the magical flying machines we operate... They represent everything I find awful and boring about flying. I'll confess to laziness and get-home-itis motivating me to request a visual to the opposite direction runway, all in the name of landing sooner and saying less, but even I'm not too lazy to glance down at the MFD when I turn onto what I think is final approach.
But I'm not the brightest bulb, so it could just be me.
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Asian Date? Gotta say, they seem to have figured out this demographic pretty quick...Paid version of the Android app is available now. If you have the free version, you will start seeing ads soon (nothing massive, just a small banner at the bottom, gotta pay the bills).
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You have reached the rank and position where all but your brashest subordinates will give you honest feedback about your policies and leadership. It is not as simple as asking; most will apply the safest translation (for their career) to anything you say. The only way you can convince them (assuming you are being honest with your intentions) is through action, over and over. Each time you don't act in accordance with your word will have 10 times the effect of each time you do.
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I was also living overseas and am not 100% sure how cola, etc affects AGI.
It's an allowance, so it should have no effect.
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Did you Gucci guys have a POC at Breitling you used to get a custom order started? I'd like to email them and find out if they have any C-130 designs.
I bet if you have $60K+ to send their way, they have a .25"x.25" silhouette of a herk.
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Yeah, we have a few named people at EGUN. On the less surprising side, when our copilot exec let us know we were having a "roll call" on Friday afternoon, a boom sarcastically asked if someone would be taking actual roll... Because no one would be dumb enough to think you actually call out roll at the start of a roll call...Confirm tanker dude?
Oh how they laughed and laughed.
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I'd definitely talk to the Security Manager first before bringing in a watch into a SCIF that has the capability to receive a GPS signal.
What about watches that get the time signal from one of the atomic clocks? I bet there are a fair number of those.
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Oh geez, isn't liquid from herbie? I bet the inappropriate relationship was with rusty...
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I'm guessing General Order 1 in Europe will be his legacy.
I met him a couple months ago. Awesome guy, definitely someone you'd enjoy having a beer with.
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I don't offer those examples to stir up a pissing contest, but as a point of reference. Even if the T-6 were more complicated to fly than the those other aircraft, 8-10 rides seems high.
I am also not trying to start a pissing contest, and I will caveat this by saying I am a heavy pilot now, but the people who needed 8-10 rides before the IQ check in a T-6 were not the guys/gals coming from fighters. It was the people who had spent the last 3-10 years in planes that don't require trimming, or making radio calls while flying, or spinning your own bugs, or keeping your hands on the controls for the entire flight.
I racked up 600ish hours in one year in the T-6, but after a year off for the MC-12 gig, It took me a couple rides to get my hands back. I imagine a break of 6+ years without 600 hours of previous experience to fall back on would have required more than a couple rides.
I fully intend to go back to the T-6 one day, and I suspect by the time I do, I will have a new appreciation for the heavy pilots who spent all of PIT on CAP. Especially if they upgrade the tanker to a modern autopilot while I'm in it.
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I think we all agree that from a qualitative point of view, PIT adds nothing. I'm sure people currently loving the hell out of a San Antonio duty station would scream bloody murder and fight that notion, but if you ask the rank and file at UPT, nobody has anything positive to say about the place. That's not a dig against the dudes, but let's face it. The program is pretty mickey mouse.
I disagree. It was probably a bit much for a FAIP, only because we had just finished flying the plane, but the MWS guys in my class for the most part wanted more, not fewer rides. The FAIPS who did T-38s seemed to need even fewer rides than the FAIPs like myself who had done T-1s.
My fear, as someone who worked on the line and in check flight (where we do a good percentage of the TI/Fam/MQT/whatever-they're-called-now rides) is that moving it to UPT will sideline the instructor candidates. At PIT you are the only priority, and at least in my class you got all the instruction you needed/wanted. It was a lot harder to dedicate that much time to the TI guys when you had student rides, snapshots, additional duties, and all the other BS everyone in the AF has to deal with when they aren't TDY. I'm not saying it's impossible, I just think it will be very easy to put the new guys on the back burner.
But I suppose money is the only consideration these days, and probably should be for the next few years.
Edit to add: PIT in no way prepared me for the types of crazy mistakes students would make. Most (not all) of the IPs there were too afraid of something happening, some carryover from tweets, some who didn't even think we should do low levels because of the single engine. So in that aspect, I thought PIT failed. But the many rides repeating the maneuvers over and over while being forced to verbally instruct were highly valuable. Since they're keeping that at PIT, maybe it'll work out just fine.
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