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Our group shop has 4 pilots (1 Maj & 3 Capt) and 1 SNCO. Up until this recent batch of that just took over most were pigeons, couldn’t get them out of the office to fly a local let alone a mission. Saw a few come scrambling down because HARM threatened shut off their flight pay because they’d gone three months without touching a jet.
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33 minutes ago, ihtfp06 said:
What the fvck did I just read on there? Isn’t the first step to recovery admitting you have a problem? Also, no FGO is “poisoning the well;” our leadership has already done that. I don’t go out of my way to complain in front of Lts, but I’m totally frank with them when they ask questions.Yeah, I respect said dude that made the post, but’s he’s off the mark there. Telling LTs about the AF screwing up RIFs, VSPs, promotions, squadron manning (I.e MAF crew ratio reduction) isn’t poisoning the well is valuable education albeit mostly negative. However, there’s an easy solution for this, if the Air Force doesn’t like us passing on the screw ups to the younger generations, stop fucking screwing up on a perpetual basis!
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Because, grounding the entire fleet after the WC-130 crash would have just poured gasoline on the fire AF leadership is trying to ignore. Wait a month and things die down a little bit.
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19 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
webmail links, try these, lemme know
-External is for a personal computer or a government computer, connected to commercial internet, not using VPN
-Internal URL is for your government computer connected to base network or using commercial internet connection with VPN
No luck
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6 hours ago, ColoradoAviator said:
Can you make the new e-mail system work on my iPad (again)? In AMC we could get the old e-mail system on our iPad. It was super convenient for the short time we had it (pre-migration).
Or through the portal so we can access it while on the road/deployed?
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On 5/20/2018 at 5:43 PM, HarleyQuinn said:
Returned from a 6 month deployment and was staying in lodging. Picked up my truck registration off base because it had expired while I was deployed. A rent-a-civilian cop wouldn't let me on base with my brand new registration in my hand. "You need to peel off the old sticker he told me." Hey dumbass, I've been deployed and my truck has been sitting in a hot ass storage unit. That sticker isn't going to just peel off without a razor blade and some window cleaner which is in my toolbox on the base. After going back and forth he called someone and they told his dumbass to let me on the base. Moron....where do they find these people?
Most states have a rule that personnel returning from out of state (due to PCS or deployment) typically have a 30 day grace period to renew their tags before they are actually considered expired. Not helpful now but for future reference when dealing with the SF at the gate.
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No word on a safety down day at my base or solicitation of suggestions. Doesn't matter though since most of the suggestions will be aimed at the staff buruecrats, which coincidentally will also get first look at any suggestions we push up.
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3 hours ago, pawnman said:
Well, you have to understand that as a 17D, he does not have the same kind of people working for him that you have working for you. "You're all adults and professionals" works well in squadrons that are predominantly officer, in AFSCs that already require discipline and attention to detail. It works less well when you have an airman or A1C less than a year out of BMT and who still barely has a grasp adult life, let alone the expectations of the Air Force.
Its more than just Airman a year out of BMT. Talked with a buddy who is in cyber and the airman he deals with on a daily basis is well let's just say special (in every possible meaning of that word).
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So far I like what I see out of Chief Wright, he's seems to be bringing common sense back to the enlisted force which, for all I thought the Officer side was jacked up, it didn't hold a candle to the stupidity on the enlisted side. Wright should just automatically reverse any decision Cody made because there's a 99% it was probably a horrible decision.
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1 hour ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
Aren’t doctors already doctors (for the most part) when they get here?The AF still pays for many AF doctors' med school which incurs a commitment so not that much different than pilots.
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Got a chance to talk to an AFPC rep who helps run the promotion boards and was involved in the recent O-4 board. Key takeaways were this is a 100% promotion opportunity not a 100% promotion rate (Duck you may still be in luck). The difference this year is instead of rating the package on a 6-10 scale then making a cut based on the rack and stack, the option was simply a yes or no to promote the person. If you got a yes, you are 100% getting promoted not waiting to see how you fell in the overall rankings and make the cut.
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I take it the 22 doesn’t have weight on wheels switch that keeps the gear from being retracted?
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20 hours ago, VMFA187 said:
....so WSOs are now going to squadrons where there will likely be no jets for them to maintain currency simply to do ground duties.
Picked up my DD-214 this morning.
I really want to know what idiot comes up with this idea and then what admiral signed off on this.
Also congrats and best of luck.
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5 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
Upgrade to Win10.
Why so his computer can be as useful as it would be running MSDOS?
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5 hours ago, Danger41 said:
Honest question for the FAIPs: Would going to another base really be that bad? Change of scenery, new way of operating, etc?
I was thinking about that as I perused this thread during my morning constitutional and it honestly sounds better than just staying in the same spot.
I think it’s less to do with moving than it is where they were moving from and to.
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13 hours ago, Chuck17 said:
Whoa whoa whoa, you mean there’s another side to this story!? (#sarcasm) Your measured response is getting in the way of our righteous indignation...!
Chuck
Shocking I know
13 hours ago, Runr6730 said:As a guy who lived through Fairchild’s ASEV failure in 2010, I can vouch that paperwork matters. That being said, would I revoke someone’s IP qual for screwing it up (even repeatedly)? Hell no, but said IP would get really tired of briefing the squadron at training days.
I’m not sure if he ever did, but his point was that the IP qualification is not something one just keeps because they made it through IPUG. If you aren’t meeting the expectations of the IP crew qual (not just managing to avoid getting Q3’d), he would not give you that authority and responsibility. I have a hard time saying I disagree with it, but as you pointed out there are multiple ways to skin the cat.
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Like I said I didn’t agree with everything this OG did and he could definitely be caustic at times, but he set his expectations clearly ahead of time as well as the consequences too. He also rarely punished en mass it was targeted specifically at people who fucked up. He also had very high expectations of his IP corps. From one IP to another, if you habitually fucked up grade sheets, TMS reports, currency paperwork I would agree you probably shouldn’t be an IP. You are the example and if you can’t do it then it’s time to find better examples. Also if you understood that the OG needed the paperwork so he could use the Go/No-go process to gather data on things like Ops tempo effects on training, crew compositions, required waivers etc, you understand why it was important to him. He fought many battles against 18AF/AMC that the crew force never knew about. I was in your shoes too until my commander sat some of the IPs down and peeled back the curtain. This guy isn’t a saint but he enabled a lot of good at McChord, as for his actions at Dyess I got nothing.
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5 hours ago, dream big said:
No, Dyess. Problem is this resiliency push is coming from HQ AMC and higher. They want people to make posters for the event. Flying squadron DO said his poster will be #getthefbacktowork.
Under the new wing leadership our Sq leadership has had to fight many battles..they have to pick and chose which ones are worth fighting. I’m guessing a day wasted is not a battle worth fighting, but still worthy sport b*tching about!
That’s a shame, your wing king used to be our OG and worked to keep things mission focused. Didn’t always agree with the ways he approached things but he held a high bar in expectations and regularly fought 18AF & AMC BS.
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Uh why the fuck are we sending airman to clean commercial aircraft? Isn't that what these companies are supposed to be doing to thier own aircraft?
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Because we are the exact inverse of the army, almost entirely FW with a small RW piece. It makes more sense to send everyone fixed wing and peel a handful of pilots off every year to go RW than stand up an entirely separate program with all the overhead cost.
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7 hours ago, YoungnDumb said:
Also, new T-6 syllabus was briefed today. Here's the short version of what UPT (at least T-6 side), also I am merely the messenger.
Phase 1
-Academics and 20 sims with a sim check ride. Rumor/hope is that a green suiter will administer the check ride and that more mil sim IP's will help bridge the sim/flt lint gap.
Phase 2
-20 Transition sorties which will be a combination Instrument/Contact. 1 check ride and 1 solo.
-8 Nav sorties (can be done XC)
-8 form sorties with 1 form solo
Track Select
-If going T-1/Helo the stud will go do 6 more Nav sorties. If helo the sorties will be VFR/NTA/Low Level focused
-If going T-38 the stud will do 3 advanced aero rides, 6 advanced form rides, and 4 tac form/2-ship low level sorties.
Then they go to Phase 3.
According to the slides it will save 17k sorties per year and shorten UPT by ~6 weeks (3 of that occurring in T-6's). Also, they are getting rid of teaching students EP patterns. Basically if the kid has an engine problem they want him to fly home normally, and if it gets bad just eject. So ya...
So what happens when said 38 track studs suck at aero & advanced form? Are we just going to send him anyways, re-track, wash out?
ETA: I’m talking about the extra rides in the T-6 post track just so there’s no confusion.
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5 hours ago, DirtyFlightSuit said:
You should look to pilot network to see just how well the community at large regards your DO. He is a special child.
Apparently he’s about to take command of one of the T-6 squadrons.
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I got stopped leaving one time and they asked if I would consent and responded “since you are asking, what if i say no?”. Apparently they revoke your base driving privileges.
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1 hour ago, Dogs-N-Guns said:
I'm assuming the mission required an augmented crew, meaning 3 pilots for up to a 24 hr flight duty period (C-17 world). I believe the original intent was to have 2 ACs and one FP (first pilot), but there isn't enough ACs. Solution was to allow an experience FP serve as the augmenting pilot with Sq/CC approval. Anyone with an ounce of integrity wouldn't allow a 200 hr pilot to serve as an augmenting FP.
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This is correct. We structure our crew with an AC, an Experienced Copilot (>400 hrs & 6 mo CMR), and a junior Copilot. Both guys in the previously mentioned story had crossed an ocean less than 4 times between them with about the same number of missions. Leaving those two guys in the seat while you sleep during an ocean crossing is a bad idea. Mainly because anything that happens (reroutes, procedure changes etc) they don't have experience or knowledge to make those decisions which means they'll have to wake up the AC. An experienced copilot can handle 90% of those things on their own. Franky I wouldn't trust them anyways to even go to the bunk in the first place. There's qualified and then there's proficient.
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