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Wife's still have O1 rank on 'em. Apparenlty unless you're addressing the unwashed masses (as a O6+), they're not required. Once again.. I just want patches back.

Copy, I'll be screaming across a chow hall at the OG/CC for having his FDU sleeves around his elbows and morale patch. Thanks for clearing up who's in the wrong on this one.

For the rest of us who don't know who this Lt Col is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_%28author%29 Hope he comes to my location. Don't know why his books aren't on the CSAF Reading List.

In the rare, rare cases. Usually it's to reward some General's aide (Folgeso... I can't finish it) or to keep that fire-walled volunteer of the year moving up to MSgt so they can tell you how to wear a reflective belt correctly. On a plus side I did have a Chief 1Sgt who was STEP'd to Master, rode a Harley, cursed, smoked and kicked ass. She was great.

STS

Wonder where the politics are worse AD or Guard. See/hear this sort of nonsense all the time when they come visit.

NDA's are usually 99 years, so I think he came in a little early.

According to Fox - "Police have determined that three people were struck by whole bullets -- two of which were removed from victims at the hospital -- and the rest were grazed "by fragments of some sort," Kelly said." http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/25/nypd-shooting-bystander-victims-hit-by-police-gunfire/ EDIT - decided to cite my source.

You'd think so, but often they just add'l duty it out to each shop and have the 3D0 do "inspections" on everyone's files and make sure they're in line with the file plan. God I wish I didn't know all this file plan shit...

Tried to explain what the Orderly Rooms were like to a new Lt. He couldn't wrap his head about not having to constantly be at finance/MPF for stuff.

Great ideas, I'll pass it around. I don't get bags. Yep. That was sent to the wife... in the Ops Sq! I remember back in my old day ('99) that you'd get food for free, and occasionally a day off/pass for volunteering. Plus the FOD walk afterwards always had the golden screw (STS) or whatever it was called. EDIT: Added memories of an AF past.

Voluntold for base Air Show. 10-6 on a Sat, in uniform of course. No coolers or backpacks allowed. No food provided. If you were scheduled for weekend duty, good news! Friday word came down you wouldn't have to schedule leave for Air Show support. WTF happened to my Air Force?

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/08/air-force-new-chief-mark-welsh-to-ncos-instill-pride-in-airmen-081512/ Granted it's from a rag, but it seemed interesting and pertinent. Thoughts? First thing I remember from Schwartz was Blues Monday. Will this be the first thing we remember Welsh for; Telling NCO's to lead Amn?

Is there a move back to the regulation format vs the AFI touchy feely? I've heard so many crusty-(insert rank here) decry the move away from AFR as watering down everything. Another thing I'll have to read through to argue with Chiefs. Also, writing culture down is.. iffy at best.

Wow that's nice.

FIFY http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784884/

His letter was very well written and for the firs time in a decade I'm excited about the AF's future. While I don't get friday shirts/patches/Sq bars, hopefully he'll let us Support guys have back some of our morale items as well. Or.. he'll just give us all flight suits! --ducks--

What an absolute coward.

Saw this break come up while I was on shift and got to the audio as quickly as possible. First thing I thought as well was. "Wow.. blink much?" Additionally, her voice cuts glass.

FIFY & Truth.

Same. I meant that when CE has an outage, water for example, it's less "what did you do, fix it now!, I want a full AAR on why email was down for 20 min" or "why are the emails I sent to my wife's yahoo account taking so long to get there" (Wing King request.. wish I was kidding) and more "they're working on it, they're undermanned, etc". I've yet to have that experience in Comm even though the majority of our outages are: 1) Pushed by higher level leadership (consolidating services, pushing patches not tested) 2) Underfunded Contractors/Incompetent GS Civilians 3) Underfunded equip maintenance(most Comm equip "upgrades" are EOY funds, last base had 8yr old EOL servers, Wing refused to "upgrade" them because they were working) 4) Black Magic 5) Lack of training & experienced Amn Additionally if I had an Amn working early '09 tickets into Nov of '10, then refusing to do the work because we moved the TV... I'd expect to get shit on. For CE.. that's just how they work and it's ok with the majority of leadership. EDIT - Forgot the jab at GS Civilians

When I was in "real Comm" they made SharePoint pages.... and back filled the post office. We could yank some for admin duties, though that was a fight with an idea-fairy E8 (now E9) to get done. It's been awhile since I've looked at their training but I believe they do the SharePoint, and also the file plans. Though I can't be sure. No you don't. Half the problem is lack of manning, the other half is lack of training/experience. The final half (what?) is that people think it's magic and "us nerds" should just be able to make it work. If only CE had the same expectations we do.

Were Finance Amn ever in the Sq's? I've been in since '99 and we had Personnel/Knowledge, but never finance. Ops different in this? I assume you don't mean RA's. Comm took some huge cuts, pushed admin work the the different Sq's, then decided that wasn't secure and pulled it back to the Comm Sq.. without increasing manning. Now they're getting rid of the Amn we used for Administrator work? Enjoy your 3 days of broke computers.

So... can I get a copy of those? Last ones I saw had the original version of the Creed - '07ish. I'll just say hate what we got, but be thankful they changed it.

Only motto's worthing having are those "not appreciated"