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    Enlisted Drone Pilots

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The USAF is the only branch without warrants. So is it the USAF has it right and the other three branches are out to lunch, or is it the other way around?

    The USAF got rid of theirs due to the creation of E-8/E-9 grades and quit appointing WO's in 1959. I'd say a sound decision made in the 1959 USAF isn't a sound one in the 2016 USAF.

    The USAF doesn't want to create them again because of money. It's easier to task SNCO's with stuff well above their pay grade, then pay them more money to do the same job.

     

     

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    11 minutes ago, Runr6730 said:

    Your statement about EGUN not sharing equitably is dated by at least 4 years. EUCOM tanker crews are getting tasked at rates equal to or greater than their AMC counterparts, and they aren't good deals. Up until recently, 21 hour augmented duty day sorties to beautiful Africa were a daily occurrence.  Hell, we're even being augmented by the ANG/AFRC and AD to fill the lines.  Are there good deals?  Yes, but they are fewer and further between. 

    You strategically left out the per diem made in Istres France as well.  And I'll fly 21 hour augmented duty day sorties if you told me I never had to do STRATCOM stuff again.  You know what a AMC good deal is?  Go to McGuire and sit Alpha for a week.  Trust men, I've spent three of my last five assignments in AMC.  I got better "good deal" teaching at the FTU in Altus.  Grass isn't always greener.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    49 minutes ago, Guardian said:

     

    TnkrToad. I see you thumbs up' his post of using three Air Force members deaths as justification for flying tankers is hard when they died from a massive hardware issue not through any fault of their own. I just formed my opinion on you.

    It makes me sad that their are members in the AF that think like yourselves. I hope you don't take the bonus and choose to go elsewhere with your "talents"

    You both make me sick. Just think of others before you go and do stupid stuff like that or even think about the logic you are trying to employ and realize that it's flawed and failed.

    Apparently you didn't read the AIB, the crew was faulted for using rudder input during a dutch roll situation (though it was a mechanical malfunction).  And I also personally knew all three crew members and was friends with the Boom for 12-years.  And since a tanker isn't "really that demanding to fly", what exactly do you fly?

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    19 hours ago, guineapigfury said:

    We are currently trending very young for many of our new arrivals.  Lots of 1Lts and A1Cs.  Some of that is they can't 7 day opt, some of it is that younguns are all this community has to send.  On the plus side the popcorn tends to stay fresh.  The diificulties at Holloman are similar to the difficulties elsewhere in RPAland minus shiftwork.  Crappy location, tedious and unrewarding work, hard to get leave approved, better money and QOL on the outside.  Imagine Altus without grass and the median operational experience of your IPs is 3 years with no IP experience prior to arriving.  The silver lining is that lots of dudes are pushing to the Guard and contracting, often staying at this base.  However,  those dudes are often just holding at the fix waiting for a better opportunity to present itself.  We don't have trouble finding people, we have trouble keeping them.  Assignments here follow normal assignment rules, so 3-4 years for those who don't separate or PC/PF.  I'm not advocating stop-loss, but I expect it.

    Altus doesn't have grass and at least on the tankers side there are IP's there who don't even log IP time before they get there to teach at the FTU.

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Azimuth

    On February 1, 2016 at 2:42 PM, brabus said:

    One thing I and a few other bros have noticed (we're not the first, I'm sure) is when given an opportunity to talk relatively frankly with a GO about the AF/why dudes hate it and want to get out, they flat out refuse to believe the AF is different than when they were CGOs/FGOs.  Even when presented with facts and emotionless arguments, they clearly maintain the memory of what it was like for them as a Lt/Capt/Maj and how it has to be the same now; everyone younger than them are just a bunch of pussies, don't have "the big picture," etc.  I'm all for a backhand of reality to whiners, but you can't ride the "you're being a pussy" train because you're presented with facts that don't support your side of the story.  This whole issue might see better traction if senior leadership started believing it's CGOs/FGOs on the state of the AF instead of being the incredibly out of touch old guy who refused to open his eyes after 1995.

    Didn't know you had the "opportunity" to talk to McDew...

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, TnkrToad said:

    Probably helped that the AF actually had more reasonable manning, while the requirements were less: 

    - FY 99: 70k officers/286k enlisted/356k total

    - FY 15: 61k officers/246k enlisted/307k total

    Aside from surges like Allied Force, the deployment rate was reasonable (ONW & OSW), and there were some pretty sweet deals out there (C-21 fleet was twice as big then and had some great locations, for instance). RPAs existed, but there were nowhere near as big of a thing as they are now. In the SUPT squadrons & ops flying squadrons, my experience in the latter part of the 90s was that the older heads had genuinely enjoyed their flying careers & were getting out because of the even better opportunities on the outside, rather than trying to get away from the suck which is the AD today. I don't recall any SUPT or Altus IPs in the late 90s who vol'd to teach at Laughlin to get away from the ops tempo in their MDS. In later years, I knew lots of guys willing to go to Laughlin or Altus to get away from the soul-crushing tempo.

    TT

    Which AETC guys are X-Banded and deploy to shitty staff jobs for longer times than they did in their MDS.  YMMV.

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    B-1 leaving Al Udeid

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Azimuth

    1 hour ago, Timbonez said:

    It wasn't taken down because of opsec.  The guy who created the video was told to take it down because he didn't ask for permission.  He is turning it over to PA so it can be "vetted" first.

    The people who were on the ISIS hit list had done interviews and stories for PA. All they did was Googlefu their name and what base their from and they eventually found their address.

    I wouldn't want PA vetting anything.

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