Chuck17
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5 hours ago, Warrior said:
So is this a good thing? Anyone care to start rumors on what direction she'll take AMC?
I’ve heard good things. But at the same time I’ve also heard “a current commander in AMC” tell another GO once that “the organization will run itself if you just let it...” I’d say that is the prevailing wind at this point.
Steady as she goes gents, don’t expect the boat to rock. I wouldn’t expect meaningful or impacting change anytime soon. We’ve got a years-long wait until the brains, wild cards, and innovators make rank... if they last.
Chuck
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100% true.
Chuck
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5 hours ago, sixpack said:
I wished my leadership was that forgiving but i've already been told in no uncertain terms that the OG will not deal with terrorists and the orders will stick. They're forcing my hand regardless of my wishes.
If you don’t mind the ask, which wing are we talking about here?
Chuck
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2 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
It was one of the first things I noticed...I'm just incredulous he could have that happen and walk into a Wing Exec job like it never happened. There should be even more shit coming out from all the other times he's been around. Be like Wilkerson all over again...
Also...how does this not fall on those that sponsored him this whole time?
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104920/brigadier-general-bradley-s-baker/
It's not that hard to figure out who pushes folks - this guy was his Wing King at Travis. From there he went to be the ADC for ADM Fox Fallon (PACOM and CENTCOM/CC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Fallon
Once you are a 4-button's ADC, life accelerates. It's important to know who's who...
Chuck
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1 hour ago, magnetfreezer said:2 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:Considering the guy was kicked out of SOS for cheating...among many other shady things as a CGO...color me not surprised at the charges.
He just finally got caught.I'm guessing that would generate a referral training report at the very least - was he already designated as golden/protected that young or are we just that skosh on options for AMC wing commanders?
Nah this guy did umpty ump tours as an AFPak HANDS and came out of those as a poster child... Didn’t work out like his Senior Rater thought, I’d imagine...
Chuck
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50 minutes ago, pawnman said:
How hard would it be to dissolve those staffs and put their positions at the MAJCOM?
We are about to find out. That was a table slap from the last Corona. 18AF will be a shell (ADCON responsibilities only) in a matter of weeks, 3-Star goes back to the MAJCOM Vice...
No clue exactly how ops will fit into the OT&E world of the MAJCOM but they’ll make it work, it’s been done before.
Big changes coming in lots of places.
Chuck
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8 hours ago, FourFans130 said:
C-17 level...which I've heard is just sub-AWACS...
Jesus. Maybe you guys are better off down there at Dyess after all.
This is some straight early 2000’s super base C-17 BS. I thought we’d grown past this “wing commander acting like a squadron commander” crap.
Guess not.
Good lesson though gents - what got you here won’t get you there.
Chuck
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2 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
Essential in Syria, huh? GMAFB. That's not a knock on the F-22 drivers out there. Just making sure he's saying it was 'mission failure' if the Raptor's weren't up.
Words have meaning, guy.
Chuck
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1 hour ago, Fuzz said:
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.
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
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53 minutes ago, Flaco said:
I grew up with fear, sarcasm, and ridicule as a tactic used by my IPs, the leadership, and the rest of the institution. It worked well, and I didn't complain.
The ops tempo was reasonable, I was flying 20 sorties a month, and push-it-up, fun TDYs were plentiful. I had never heard of a CBT, SAPR, Green Dot, and there was no airline opportunity.
Let me suggest that that era is gone. What this "special snowflake" is trying to say is that the Air Force doesn't have the cards to play the dickhead commander routine any longer. It's a bluff.
The snowflake is gonna bail to the airlines at his first opportunity while the commander keeps wondering why he's losing pilots.
Adapt, or die. The ball is in the Air Force's court.
So... if they’re going to be lost anyway, you make an interesting case for longer commitments and less bonus money...
Yeesh.
Chuck
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2 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:
Who gets the cash?
I’m guessing if it’s a squadron volunteer opportunity, the squadron gets the cash...?
Pretty sure they ain’t paying straight cash to folks who do it voluntarily. They wouldn’t have to beat the bushes for bodies if they were. I’m not even sure that’d be legal.
Chuck
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9 hours ago, Fuzz said:
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?
It pays $500.00 cash for about 26 minutes of volunteering... If it is anything other than voluntary, someone should be fired.
Chuck
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33 minutes ago, pawnman said:
There's a reason they asked O-6s at thirty years to stay on for three additional years.
Concur. But “We’re desperately short O-6s” ain’t it.
Chuck
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3 hours ago, pawnman said:
Is this how they're planning to solve the O-6 shortage?
Shortage? There isn't one. The AF will always have enough O-6's. QUALITY is the short. Take a look at some of the oxygen thieves wearing eagles these days... Innumerable.
But we won't ever be short O-6's.
Chuck
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On 1/28/2018 at 1:44 PM, 08Dawg said:
The real question is....why are 365s still necessary?
Mostly true. The billet Im in could be way less. It wouldn't be as good for continuity, but it would manage. One year gig is not required by any means. Most bases turn at least halfway over in every squadron every 3-6 months anyway... Makes it hell on getting things all the way through to final, closing things out. But it is manageable. Not good, but manageable - which is the name of the game when deployed. If it was easy, it would be too easy. If it was terrible, people would be getting careers damaged or (quell horror) getting fired.
Manageable suck is the best.
Chuck
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5 hours ago, Azimuth said:
Weird.
Dewey is a known quantity...
Chuck
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18 hours ago, pawnman said:
Our flight safety guy just 7-day opted a 365. And he was a shiny penny type, shoe-in for school and likely a 2-below to Lt Col.
Not shocking. There's a certain expected attrition with these "opportunities." The real barometer is how many dudes punch instead of take them. I'm betting the USAF has no stats on that... that would be too damaging to report.
Though for expectations management - if you stay long enough, a 365 is going to happen. If you stay, get it over early - if you can.
Chuck
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So why the heck am I still active duty if there's no difference between that and the ANG?
In all seriousness gents (and speaking strictly for the C-17 and C-130 communities here) this is an idea that IS going to hit ops sooner or later. There are former-Herk-now-C-17 units out there that are touting unit/partial/individual mob and "voluntold-ism" as a way to get their units/crews street cred, get them in the game. For every one you have saying "this isn't what we want" you have more O-6s saying "we should do this!" - and Im not just talking about the flying four month rotation gigs, Im talking everything that goes along with them. It's just odd that now that we have a retention crisis and are trying to do something about it, we are taking actions that will likely decrease retention out the gate. Bizarre.
Interesting times. Just wait for the COMREL changes on the horizon... It's a brave new world.
Chuck
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9 hours ago, flyusaf83 said:
.... this Lt Gen will probably just secured his fourth star ...
Already done long before now.
Chuck
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457th Airlift Squadron...?
PM Me. DO is a buddy of mine. Get you some info at the very least.
Chuck
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Depends on your 11/12X categorization... in a nutshell for old guys who took (and it expired) or didn't take the bonus, they'll give you cash (up to 35K a year) to stay a min of a year, out to 22 - or max 24 years of service... again, all depends on what you flew, so need to check the MyPers to see where you fit.
Chuck
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You're saying move away from a MOB where all the support, MX, and enough hotel space exists to go to the middle of nowhere to be able to launch easier? Im not saying this is a bad COA - it was certainly looked at during planning.
We should just go to Alpina and call it good, like in the old days. There ain't shit there. You guys would love that. Throw in some MOPP4 time and its just like 2005 all over again - we could even change the name back to MOBEX... (HEAVY SARCASM)
Chuck
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2 hours ago, sling-it-17 said:
... and I'm really amazed of how much talk is happening but nothing in the flying Sqs really are changing. But time will tell.
Little (if anything) will change until the crisis is deepened to the point of systemic failure - THAT is the only time systems change. Everything that's been done until now is prelude. Either we are in for a true departure from the norm, or the storm will be weathered and we will maintain the course. That's not pessimism, that's history.
Either the "old science" works, or we come up with new solutions to solve the problem, and that becomes the new way of doing business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions
Chuck
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1 hour ago, Bowser36 said:
Call me cynical, but I think this change is just an attempt to dangle the carrot longer....instead of knowing at 10 years you're not going to school, now you won't know until 13, where you might be more willing to stick it out to 20.
I think this is a valid point. And you should be skeptical after the terrible track record the USAF has displayed re: personnel decisions over the last ten years. If you are not continually skeptical about bureaucracy, you're a babe in the woods.
Had the retirement system NOT changed, I'd say that's exactly what this is, disguised as a QOL/Service improvement... which, true, arguably it is.
But don't kid yourselves. The USAF doesn't give a crap about your QOL. There is little difference between this and the change to a ten year post-UPT commitment that happened back in the day - both are designed to get you to the next hook, over the next hump so they keep you till retirement age - or now since we have a new retirement system, keep you through the 'thin years' where dudes bail due to pending staff and non-jet-fying assignments until it's time to do something else.
I will say this - if you are lucky, they send you back, but you're never as good as you were when you were a Captain with a star on your wings. At least Im not...
Cheers,
Chuck
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
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Free money, baby.
Chuck