Jaded

I'll pile on to say I also believe privilege has been compromised to the point that I will not participate in the AF safety process if involved in an incident. Nobody has mentioned the C-17 guy who's SIB was released to the special prosecutor during his court martial.

If you see any FHP that is zero's out (like 0.0), it's guaranteed that shenanigans like that occurred. Fraud, waste and abuse complaint, ha. Our boss walked into our office (rattled) on Sep 30th of this year and said, "I need you to spend $11,000 in the next 4 hours." I can't make this shit up.

Dividend stocks are less volatile than the overall market. 3 years is not a long enough timeline to invest in much of anything.

JHMCS failed sled testing above 400 kts by putting lethal G forces on the neck.

Hey man, numbered air forces are expensive to maintain.

Can you expand? Is hagel bad or do you just hate the Obama administration?

I would guess lots of f-16 guard opportunities.

Just look at ATP take rate per base. The Maxwell numbers skew the rest.

Hacker, great post. Completely agree.

And of course, rather than being transparent about it, the air force leaves us to gossip and guess. I don't think the USAF cares about "flying related stuff" as long as the slides are green.

I'm surprised there are still O-5s left to be F-16 squadron commanders with all of the recent firings.

Maybe that statement is in response to drone pilots' horrific ATP take rates.

I thought eagle cash worked pretty well actually, and I'm generally a hater about that kind of stuff. I had 0 use for cash in Iraq.

Specifying sock color in any reg is dumb period dot.

You have no credibility. Nobody is listening to you. You are just making it harder for people to find real gems of information in this thread. Also, nobody cares about your path to captain.

Last year was around 65%. The goal seems to be a closely guarded secret.

I just don't buy it. They must still be processing apps.

Any word on how this is going? When I check, it still shows like a 45% take rate, and worse for fighters.

Well, that's confusing. Those two statements seem contradictory.

Here's the note: "b. All manned or unmanned pilots, navigators, and air battle managers who began aviation service after 30 September 1997 will not incur any additional Advanced Flying Training (AFT)/Instructor Qualification ADSCs which extend beyond 6 or 10 years as applicable, of continuous or cumulative rated service. Rated service begins at the completion of training and awarding of wings for the rated specialty. They will still incur Permanent Change of Station (PCS), Professional Military Education (PME), and other non-AFT related ADSCs." What is "AFT"? Is that IQT in a new airframe, like cross training from the F-16 to F-35? Edit: Found it. "Advanced Flying Training (AFT): courses in the following categories: - Initial qualification (any fixed, rotary wing aircraft, or unmanned aerial system) - Requalification (any fixed, rotary wing aircraft, or unmanned aerial system) - AETC Pilot Instructor Training (PIT) (NOTE: Pilots who cross-train without a break in flying between AETC non-Major Weapons System aircraft, after completing initial training do not incur any additional commitment.) - Test Pilot School (for Pilots, Navigators, and Engineers) - All Career Enlisted Aviators and Non-rated Enlisted Aircrew members attending Advanced Flying Training"

Since we're only using 4 lines on an OPR anyway, why not reduce an OPR to 4 lines? No need to do a PRF at the 8 year point since your entire record would be 32 lines total. If this idea gets implemented, one of my lines would include "100,000 man hours saved."

Slick, I hope you get RIF'd.

Sounds like insubordination to me.

Huh. I listened to the CSAF himself last week say that the fact that senior raters are considering masters degrees for the major's board is "insane." He went on to say that a masters degree should only be required for O-6.

We were briefed earlier this year when it happened at Osan that the cost of these systems going off on accident and damaging jets has exceeded the cost of jets saved due to these systems. We had a couple of jets down for a few weeks - I can't remember what exactly was damaged by the foam.