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Always funny to me that we'd have junior cyber Amn crap on our admin troops when the admin bros/chicks do that above. Getting CSS' back, and admin troops actually knowledgeable about ops/ops support is one of the best things the service has done to fix Skeletor's nonsense.

Merry Christmas you filthy animals. A mod should probably move this conversation to the Cyber thread, but I'll give my brief thoughts here, then expand there if moved. No, cyber should not be a separate service right now. Probably not for another decade. Most of the Sr Leaders are former Comm-O's who jerk themselves off about being operators, without instilling operational discipline in their units. You ever have a flying Grp/Sq CC not do what was ordered by an operational CC/NAF and not get kicked in the dick? Happens all the time in Cyber. I will say Ops is Ops, and a Ops minded cyber-bro should be able to figure out how to plan/lead a conventional mission, just the same for a flier planning a cyber mission. I've watched Wedge do it, it's about enabling the team...not the individual. Cyber is very much a team sport. As is now, Offensive/Defensive Cyber as a SOCOM like force makes most sense. DoDIN-Ops (AFNET) needs to die in a fire. Our cybersecurity is both better (AF operators) and worse (PMO's, acquisitions) than you'd think. Most younger cyber guys thinks it needs to be a separate force, most older don't seem to care. There's a good band of us around the '07-'11 year groups that see it the way I mentioned above.

How was Skeletor good for the service at large?

Concur with all this. Had mine done and to the front office for rack/stack in line with normal AF bureaucracy timelines: Grp 2 months early + Wing 2 months early = on time. RUMINT - had a local leader sit on the board and that's what was mentioned as well. ALL records were reviewed for each member. This is happening more and more in Cyber as well. We've seen a ton of LtCol's/Col just bounce. Once guy in the run for much higher rank punched as a 1-star (family issues), same for a Col offered a Wing. Former Sq CC just made O6, frocked 6 months early and she said she was very non-competitive from a historical Comm/Cyber perspective. Our promotion rates are discussed as awful overall compared to the rest of the AF and historically. I have no proof of it, however a former CSAF mentioned it on a "listening tour." So the question of retention for us, doubly so with a very high proportion of prior-E's, is do you want to stick around and hope all that gets corrected? Doubtful, we're now seeing more Intel take over cyber Ops spots and we've got a MAF guy (not hating) slotted to CC one of our Ops Sq's. That's not even considering how bad Big Blue FUCKED the enterprise from about 2009 until last year.

This is no shit what the Army is doing with their cyber operators. 2-yrs+ training, finally MQT/IQT...stand road guard detail for Christmas. Our 1B4's which are our enlisted ops dudes is about the same.

I'd like to think this too. But in reality it's going to take that reformer, and a War with lots of needless, bureaucratic deaths to get them through and actually do something.

Dependent rate down $3 in my neck of the woods, but w/o dependent rate up $18. Seems this Mark1 might be on to something... Strangely the non-prior O-3's got a $20 raise (both of value/not-value). Guess I'm worthless to the org.

NFL and NASCAR declining? IMPOSSIBLE!

You can check here to see if you got credentials out in the wild - https://haveibeenpwned.com/ I've only got 1 set rolling around, from Disqus...notably from when I was commenting on JQP's site.

That derisive tone about it being a retention issue prove otherwise. Grow up and realize you have a bias in this issue, otherwise you wouldn't be so talkative on the subject. But, playing along--how about divorced dudes who now get dependent rates for their kids (who mostly don't live with them)? Technically they're single and "worth more" to the service...but get money of those "of less worth." You have no idea what they'd offer unless you were involved in the hiring process, or someone spoke out of turn. Person might negotiate for less not knowing what they could demand == more value for company. Or, perhaps they have a particular skill/experience and could negotiate for more. And you had no say in those moves? The company thrust it upon you as a requirement you were indentured to fulfill? Thank you for your sacrifice.

Are you sure?

Star Wars was pretty good. Go see it.

New AFSPC brown-noise solicitation message flying around. Seem like appropriate use of a Patch. #2) Aide to the Commander- Estimated start date: Jun/Jul 18- Desired rank: Capt/Maj- Desired AFSC: Any- Additional requirements: Weapons School graduate, SOS complete and on track for IDE

Huh.. for the Kindle and Mass Market version Horse Soldiers has been renamed to "12-Strong." Thanks for the list.

Same.

Can't speak for the pubs/flying pieces. But these EFB's are a wonderful threat vector.

Was not, Sir. I just love posting the video.

How many for cyber? We're having our own retention issues, and to get the cool training you incur a significant ADSC. We've also got our own devil's-money bonus. So I wonder what the pull in is given the drops announced in the other thread. We just finished our Vet day activities, and the number of people excited to celebrate being out was interesting. Not a lot of the nostalgia I saw from vets when I first joined. Though, I'm older and could be jaded.

Turn off NCIS grandpa...

We've already gotten pressed that "this has high visibility" due to "national story" and we need to figure out how to modify the network to share our fingerprint database, other info. Little late now...

That is one thing they pointed out in the podcast "Serial." If he hadn't deserted it would have been an amazing story of survival.

Not a lawyer either, but our system has some peculiarities that might make this the actual case. Either way, I hold to a belief system that tells me not to judge. So I'm trying to do that in this situation, with middling success.

I don't know about now. But my first retail job wanted to know what kind of discharge you had on the application. I think there was also some commentary from the judge saying the comments of the President had to be taken into order when deciding this ruling. Same thing happened with Obama and the sexual assault convictions and undue command influence.

Thought this was a new topic and he was given no punishment. Whew...

Interesting observation. I felt it started of glacially (not a bad thing) and slowly gained speed.