17D_guy

Narcissism is a hell of a drug...

Got to hear Louis tell his story in person. What an amazing man and Godspeed.

Well.. looks like I'll volunteer for Turkey instead. Holy balls that's awful. Nothing you want to do more after getting the the jailbird rotator than sit through inprocessing and all those briefing wacked out of your brain.

X course is no longer offered. It was used as a bridge course to get us from 33S to 17D. There was a classified portion. Are you looking for Cyber 200 or 300? I can shoot you a PM if necessary.

Best part about the whole thing is the kid is staying with his new wife. So we're going to rip that kid from there and put her into the arms of someone deemed unfit a few years ago. You know, because that's healthy since the walking incubator's done so much and it's harming the kid to be away from it.

By all means, elaborate on your new found enlightenment.

I'm not a Nav and I even I know you're still digging for bed rock here.

Why exclude rated? Serious question, as at least my Comm Sq Lt's/Capt's get a lot of experience in their positions that just gets flushed at PCS to some staff-bitch job. Well, good thing his poor decision making was identified...

Are your IAO's DoD 8570 certified? Actually the majority of "automated" tasks are the IAO functions. As much as I realize it's important to "get it done" having every org on base with 2+ individuals with admin rights is a management and security nightmare. But, it might go back to that if they keep hammering the Comm Sq personnel as "not vital." Many admin tasks will be returning to the Comm Sq so, hopefully you'll see faster service once it's complete.

I'll post the email about the ESD going away and what AFSPC A6 had "planned" to do for the bases to get support once that happened. And by planned I mean, "Hey, we're taking this away in 2 months. Your base will take all support calls that we haven't automated (<10%). They will not get the bodies we took from them to man the ESD. Thanks for your time." ACC was pissed. O6's and GO's who've done Comm all their lives just thought they'd turn off the switch and Ops would be fine with it. Then AFSPC just signed off 'cause... you know, they care about operations. These are our "leaders" and have AAD's, PME and are hand selected. They are talking about splitting the AFSC AGAIN with 17DS or some other shite for the actual Ops folks. I am not one of those, (un)luck of the draw. Now I'm too old. Ain't that a bitch. The only thing I want to do in the AF is grow this Ops mission and the Amn to run it. Sadly.. I don't think it's going to happen. Got a few buds who are Ops and a few people who could barely understand how a router works who are Ops. I don't know how the A3 side decides who's got the hands for a fighter and how doesn't but send someone down to Kessler so we keep the drool off the keyboards. Please note that the Cyber MAJCOM was murdered by Skeletor in his infinite wisdom to recover the nuke problems. So, as I've said before - AFSPC destroyed the nuke enterprise so AF gives them the fastest growing, most technologically/adversarial challenging, and stupidly expensive domain as a trade in the 24th AF. Please note - it's stupidly expensive because they don't want to pay for O&M on the regular - normalized MX/upgrade of classified network equip, why would we want that? They also don't want to grow through training/long-term acquisition, so we just pay contractors. They also have ideas they want but refuse to fund adequately. So we're buying F-35's, missing vital avionics, OBOGS, other aeronautical crap I cant' remember. For example - not every hosting site has a full real-time monitoring system. Think about that. Also, 1/2 your Comm Sq will be deployed at a time under this AFNext or whatever it's called now. Surely.. Comm Guys with years of exp are running the 24th by now. It's been at operating capacity since 2008. Lets check - https://www.24af.af.mil/library/biographies/ FML Oh hey, any one at hosted out of Andrews in the past 3 months. How's that email working now? Can I have a flight suit now?

FTFY, and it would be Keesler.. which is awful.

May work for flying units, wouldn't work in, at least, Comm. No DO's, ADO's and secretary is hit or miss. I generally hate exec duty, but see it as a necessary evil in some positions. Unless you want more career civilians "supporting & leading" the operational missions.

Well, now we've got pictures of mass executions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/15/these-dramatic-images-show-apparent-mass-execution-of-iraqi-soldiers-by-isis/

The club at Vandenberg had a huge turnaround in 2010. They hired a legit outside chef, she came in and cleaned house. Food was great. No more stale potato chips with a "lunch." We actually took people there to eat instead of going downtown. I don't know how it did after hours, because I lived 40 min away. But there were lines out the place for lunch, and no one bitched about the awards luncheons anymore. It's really as easy as getting a professional in there with some pride in their product. And hot chicks.

Went and saw Edge of Tomorrow. Was a good film, with really good special effects and characters. Very little down time in it.

Yea, I believe the technical term for that amount is "Budget Dust"

The one guy I know is now a Mr. Same scenario as StoleIt's bud. Civilian case dropped, but it was reflected in his OPR... somehow. Too bad, he was a good dude.

Getting really tired of retirees and/or people who served over 20 years ago saying how much more hardcore they were or how easy we have it now. Thanks for your service, shut your damn mouth. You're service did not included the big issues the common Airman (or other service member) is facing today (both O & E). Budget cuts (personnel, training, and equipment), SARC, Alcohol is the de-bil, etc. Our new guys aren't "soft" and "not dedicated." They reacting to a command environment that's pulling them so many different ways, not giving them tools, and judging them harshly for it when they come up lacking. Or, just hammering them for nothing. I've got enough retired E7 DAF Civ's (who wrote and sourced their position when they retired) telling me how cush my job is thinking we have the manning, funding, training from when they retired still. I don't need it from a (fellow) REMF O as well.

Huh. Petty. Amusing, indicative of a problem and a bit of "I'll burn all this shit down to get you." But petty and I approve.

My personal favorite part from the article If you F up because of our unclear guidance, and even if your peers do it, it's still your fault.

Whoa there with the strong language! Does SpaceX use their rocket engines or do they use their own? I don't think the hiring was particularly bad, just interesting. Vandenberg AFB had a Wing CC that retired and got a job with the primary services/tech contractor on base right away. That whole place is.. awful.

So now this is happening - https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business-headlines/20140523-spacex-ceo-suggests-rivals-hire-has-conflict.ece While it's no tanker fiasco (what a wild ride that was) it's interesting.

My muni water and power would care very much if the next town north was getting their water/power from them. If there's a lack of competition, and a single provider as most people actually have, then it's very much like a utility. Power was all commercial development until large providers consolidated power and it turned out they were screwing their customers. Then it became heavily regulated. Now electricity is considered a utility, not a "nice to have." The same will happen to the internet, probably in our lifetime once the "old folks" die off. https://burnanenergyjournal.com/the-electricity-grid-a-history/ I'm not sure I understand your statement of data increasing with rate. Perhaps I'll address it below. There are rates/classes/tiers for ISPs already - I pay more because I want a faster connection. Providers pay more because they want more bandwidth. If they exceed their cap/limit they pay more. Ever seen the reddit/slashdot/digg hug of death even on Amazon AWS hosted sites? So now content providers get to pay more for bandwidth... and priority? Can I pay to make the airplane fly faster or move the destination closer (net example - peering)? You're going to use auto/airlines as examples of mature markets in comparison to the "rising cost" of developing on the internet? Those take massive capital in the beginning and they take even more capital to start in now. However, it's still being done (Tesla, Ryan Air, etc.) with the power of the internet lowering those barriers. Again, look at twitter or facebook.. hell pinterest (sp?), should they have the same capital requirements as the auto/airlines? I don't think you are saying that but it's the way it came across. While that's a sign of a mature market, I don't think the same forces will be at play in the online world. Instead of massive capital it's going to be investments over customer time and popularity that'll be barrier to entry. Look at what's happened to facebook as they got mom & dad on with the kids. Look at what's happened to twitter since they decided to go more facebook-y. For your last bit - so you want the companies to get better at bribing lobbying our politicians? How about Tesla? A great company with a new, exciting, eco-friendly product. Try buying one in TX or NJ (sorry Jarhead?). Guess they didn't "grow up" fast enough while they were busy innovating. After The New Jersey Ban, Here's Where Tesla Can (And Cannot) Sell Its Cars

There's a thread for that.

Wireless is pretty much broadband. Yea.. totally. Ugh.. oh look at this - https://bgr.com/2014/05/20/comcast-twc-customer-satisfaction-survey-study/ . Yep, lets give these folks more power