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Cannot be repeated enough.

No experience with those magazines specifically, but I have never had luck with a multitude of ProMag products over the last 15-20 years.

Good details to know. Most military dudes -- even those who are somewhat light on multi PIC time -- won't spend very long at the regionals (6-24 months), and could get caught in one of these traps.

The 2nd and 3rd order effects of cancerous leadership philosophies and a lack of mission focus sometimes take time to manifest themselves...especially when many of the problems were being masked by commanders (and line bros) who are conditioned/socialized to never say "no" or "can't". I always giggle about the "fields of friendly strife" quote from MacArthur that the AF loves to use, and how the Air Force conveniently forgets its corollaries about what fruits are later borne by mediocrity.

On one of my assignments working on Wing Staff, I took to calling them "The Group" as they were not providing any support or service to anyone except themselves. The Wing CV advised me that, although that was dead-on and quite funny, I should not say that in Wing Staff meetings.

I just had this hope that the ANG was a last bastion of places that didn't have to deal with the big, inefficient bureaucracy of stuff like that.

In my estimation, that's how you know the report *isn't* fake news, hehe.

I was referring to the Army helo dudes who were recruited to come through AF fixed wing qual and IFF to go out and fly in AF units. There was a big batch in the 2004-2006 timeframe, with many going to ANG units but some headed to AD units. I thought that's what you were referring to when you said, "the AF also didn't bring in quite a few Army RW pilots..." If not, my bad. I'll STFU then.

Hah, probably totally valid.

Evil, are you guys seriously using a Gmail account for recruiting/hiring? Do you guys not have a comm squadron who can set up an email account that's, you know, official and stuff? hehe

If by "just fine" you mean they had an unusually high washout rate at IFF -- so much so that Guard fighter units pretty much stopped trying to bring them in for the subsequent decade or so -- then, yeah.

I have slept in the back of my old overland-converted 3rd gen 4Runner in Lot C. The USO is a nice place to sit reserve, too.

Maybe we can just wing kids after they solo the T-6. Think of how high annual pilot production could be then!

Online at places like GT Distributors, Kings's Firearms Online, and Recoil Gun Works.

PSA also regularly has great deals on the DSA aluminum mags. I buy when they hit the $6.99 each sale, but they've been $5.99 at some points previous, too.

They must just not be very patriotic. Or, at least, that's what some doofus in AF management once said.

Yay! Virtue signaling! I wonder if those airlines are going to be making the same changes to their relationship with the FBI and the Broward County S.D.?

His point was, with the exception of a couple of years here and there, there has historically generally been some sort of pre-UPT screening program. Nice white paper on the history of USAF screening programs here: https://www.aetc.af.mil/Portals/88/Documents/history/AFD-061109-020.pdf

It was "FSPOT" - Flight Screening Program for Officer Trainees.

The Executive doesn't create law. Neither does the Attorney General.

I like to post this "fact checker" whenever the real gray beards start opining about their "50% washout rates when I went through UPT in (insert timeframe here)."

These slides are pretty dated now, but for the life of the PCSM, there's been a positive correlation between PCSM score and washout rate. One slide circa 1998, the other circa 2002.

How many Flag-level officers realize that the bright, shiny low-hanging fruit they're chasing in attempts to "fix" the disaster are not the actual root causes? More importantly, do they realize they are both the living embodiment of the problems forcing pilots out the door, as well as the key to fixing those actual root causes?

I much preferred the days when Academy staff used macroaggressions to show cadets what worthless maggots they were enroute to earning a commission and respect.

Naw, just busting your balls, since most folks don't remember some A300s and A310s -- with center yokes, manual flight controls, and analog/EFIS cockpits -- are still out there soldiering on.