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Response #6 from the MAFIA here... Cheating is memorizing only the letter answers to the questions in sequential order. Using gouge is looking at the question and being able to pick out the answer if the test is given in a different order. We had the "gouge" (ie, every test question to every EPQ in order) during Phase 2 and 3, but usually there were 3 or 4 wrong answers in the gouge. Each Sunday night, we'd go through and look up every answer to the questions we had in front of us. The IPs knew we did this and even expected it, but to make sure we weren't just memorizing the questions and answers, they would make us point out where some of the answers were in the regs. When the facts come out about this incident at CBM, I suspect that a hell of a lot more was going on than just people "cheating".

Why would a person be a dipshit if they get pissed when a person who did worse in Phase 2 than them are flying the aircraft they wanted to fly since they were small children? By the way, I am not one in the group that you are talking about. One of my best friends is a guard A-10 dude that squeeked into -38's by the skin of his teeth. I don't hate him. He could handle the -38...but I know of at least three gaurd guys who didn't do well enough in -38's to get recommended for IFF, or worse, washed out of IFF. I am not arguing with you on where your guard slots are coming from. Hell, I admit that I am kicking myself for not applying for that guard slot. But what do I know? I am just one of those bitter FAIPs that got my fighter taken away from me. Shortbus, what do you fly?

Shortbus, why do you think all active duty guys think that guard guys take slots? The vast majority of people understand that guard dudes have no effect on the number of -38 slots. The ones that are bothered are the ones that weren't good enough to get a -38. That being said...if I had just missed a -38 while the guard dude who finished 12th got to go to fighters...I would have been pissed, then I would have promply gotten over it. Also, if a guard guy isn't good enough to get his -38 slot, that particular slot will go to an AD person. The guard will get an AD slot later down the road as a trade.