17D_guy

Say again? I'd put my basing list up against yours! I found it very interesting being and Vandy and seeing the.. issues between the E's and O's in the OG. There's going to be a similar issue with us, but along the A/B shred.. and then with the 1B Cyber-Ops E's. All my peers and I want to know is how the cross-flow to "A-Shred Operators" is going to work in the future with Sq CC's, NOSC, ESD's etc.. Currently we've got a Maj CC'ing a Sq with a tenant unit run by a Lt Col. Figure that crap out. I'm trying to unscrew my bases' migration to the AFNET, and asked the "Crew Commander" Lt for a org chart showing the flow for cyber direction. Holy Mary. There's no way to explain who to call for a problem.

Just had a SrA here get pop'd for golden flow. He reported to his CC that he had partaken in said paraphernalia, and went to piss. Pissed clean. Wing CC didn't sign his drug use waiver and he's a civi now.

Word on street here is COMACC is going to deny it for all non-flyers. I rather hope not.

You're not wrong. Shouldn't fall apart then either. CSAF got tossed.. the AF didn't.. oh wait.

Moved you guys out, moved us in. Perfect.

But that's just this young generation who's weak, expects no challenges, and is unmotivated. /S Getting to listen to retired and/or dead-eyed old officers tell me that the young Airmen/Officers coming in have it so cushy when we're 1/4 of the force and funding these mental rust buckets had is getting old fast. Keep leading by being blatantly biased in your selection of shiny pennies who can do no wrong, writing tests that don't actually take into account skill or experience, work to destroy any sense of team morale and camaraderie and then to top it off write about "rot" that is (apparently) just starting and only occurring at the lowest ranks or how people are motivated for fried potato snacks. If we don't see a sweep out of leadership in the next 3 months then nothing will change. Those leaders who got "counseled" will hide away until the current thing blows over and then come back with mission-planning for driving to the capsule and contingency plans for insect attacks on convoys.

Or you know.. a ghost writer.

I'm 4 classes (currently enrolled in 2) from finishing a program at a legit school. I'm not stopping now after all this ass-pain.. it'll just make it hurt more.

Thought he was too good to play the game, not get his Sq mates hammered for doing stupid stuff. Fair disclosure - I noticed he was rolled back after a few weeks and thought "Wow.. that sucks." Talked to his Sq mates and he was not liked. Got more stories of dumb training stuff just making life worse than it already had to be in that environment. Class mates thought he'd get kicked out, but like Lt. Cohen, was pushed/allowed through for some reason.

Good, dude was scum bag through commissioning and we all wondered why he was allowed to stay in.

Like a Chief of Staff, or Deputy/Vice? I agree with most everything you said, but wonder where we would hide those people behind the "leaders" and not undermine the leaders in today's military. I think you could have done something like this in the past with the army of aides that a leader could have. But today that doesn't seem feasible to me with the lust for power many of those types have/promote.

Additional huge 2 on this. I can't believe that they've tied this so close for so long. You can't have training where you're not allowed to fail, ask questions, etc. That's just constant recertification.. over and over and over. Gotcha questions, no standardization, your career depending on 5% of a grade. Integrity? Mother F*cker, please. Plus the blatant favoritism that we all know takes place for that guy... Had guys I commissioned with that grumbled about the sorts of things that are going on up there right now. I'm glad the SecAF has these 7 items and it seems like she didn't just get to talk to the 'shinny pennies'. Any news on when the writer of that lovely editorial espousing the value of tater tots is getting RIF'd? Or is she just going to slot into replacement.

Not sure if serious...

No Yes No

Already designing mine...

The wonder that is ECSS - https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/military/the-us-air-force-explains-its-billion-ecss-bonfire

Wonder who's burnout/morale is worse: Missile Crews or RPA crews.

Latest news I saw was OTS board this year will only consider engineers/scientists and will consist of a single board. Not at work, so I can't source, apologies.

There's a max you can put in TSP. Hrm.. taxes might be interesting this year.

I would have to agree. Even though I'm older, all the bosses talk about making us Ops.. which means checklists and maintenance actions. No mind set, not effects focused which you can do even as a B-shred in base comm. I blame AFSPC. Metrics are often, "how many tickets did you close" instead of, "Can they mission plan/work/be happy." I will caveat that i'm not an A shred, so perhaps I'm missing out. I'm too old for all the cool programs (15-yrs in a month). However, they sure aren't treating us like ops, nor are we getting any info about the future of the career field. The 2-star did seem cool. I did appreciate the brief. I am excited about the future. We also have some good Cyber (old-comm) dude coming up to 24AF leadership. Hopefully we'll get the last strand of Space/Missiles (we're cyber too guys!) out of there.

Well at least she's in lock step with HAF on this one. They had a "cyber town hall" where they discussed the survey they sent to all 17D's. Number on gripe... what she just said. Too bad that 15yr retirement is too much of a cut.

He also herniated a disk in his back being hunched over all the time.

So.. if your actions aren't guaranteed to effect a change, better to just do nothing at all? Nice... Yea, he could have used the NSA whistleblower program. I'm sure they're as independent as our IG. Not to mention the NSA has had to go back to the FISA many times with a "Oh.. well.. we weren't exactly truthful/complete with our last report/request." Your overlords must love you. So.. if your actions aren't guaranteed to effect a change, better to just do nothing at all? Nice... Yea, he could have used the NSA whistleblower program. I'm sure they're as independent as our IG. Not to mention the NSA has had to go back to the FISA many times with a "Oh.. well.. we weren't exactly truthful/complete with our last report/request." Your overlords must love you.

I'm getting nasty-grams for not finishing the first module (4-months in). The extra 6 months is very helpful in my situation. Thankfully, it looks like my year-group, 09, is lagging in getting it done overall. I'm still getting the "get it done now" looks from the O6's. But everyone else seems to be taking a wait-and-see approach. For overall content, seems interesting so far. Nothing too out there.. mostly a time sink. As with a online-Masters, you'll get out of it what you put into it.

They've got some good quick highlights in this article as well - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/19/amazing-details-from-the-drunken-moscow-bender-that-got-an-air-force-general-fired/