Everything posted by backseatdriver
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Promotion and PRF Information
Looking at the O-5 list - I found it interesting that 100% of the BPZers were SDE selects. 130 of the 195 school slots went to the BPZ guys
- ECARS WTF?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Promotion and PRF Information
Apparently you included this without actually looking at his bio yourself - he went to CGSC and National War College...after completing ACSC and AWC in correspondence first. https://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7550
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
They talk about bonuses and retention rates on car message boards? That's weird.
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Promotion and PRF Information
WTF? If you do it as a Capt they won't give you IDE credit later? That's some bullshit - it's the same school! I know a dude who did Olmstead as a Capt and got IDE credit once he met his school looks - weird they don't do the same with NPS
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Promotion and PRF Information
You said AAD through NPS - did you get IDE equivalency?
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
They do?
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
I guess 105mm doesn't count?
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Latest Movies
You think the teaser trailer with no actual movie footage is way better? Whale's vagina - agree to disagree.
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Decline of Baseops.net (aka The Wrath of PYB/Mods gone wild)
He probably did his casual at his ROTC Det and the directory reference is a holdover from that. I did casual at my Det after grad and my title was "Assistant Admissions Officer" - which meant I continued to party like a college student but had money. And went to a recruiting fair every now and then.
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CSAR-X
Key Performance Parameter = Requirements speak for specific capabilities of a new aircraft (or modification). "The aircraft must be able to do X" (known as a threshold), "and if possible we would like it to do Y" (known as an objective)
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Latest Movies
New Anchorman 2 trailer is up:
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Promotion and PRF Information
So JCS Staff outranks Wing exec by a whole half point. And getting higher than a 95 on your PFT outranks being an instructor in your MDS.... In what universe is this the system?
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
I don't. I was being sarcastic - highlighting the hole in the logic of the discussion in another thread on how those with low hours can't be good/credible leaders while here's someone with a ton of hours that does not seem to have many fans in the MAF.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
5,000+ hours - he must be an incredible leader.
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ACSC OLMP?
If only Air University had a website that told you everything you needed to know about ACSC and OLMP.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
Step 1: Stop calling them drones.
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AF Light Air Support Aircraft
I'm not sure what it is, but I get the impression you may be a bit biased in this discussion.
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C-130H Total Force Integration
Replaced by?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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DFC
Not if you know how to use it.
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Why Can’t the U.S. Military Grow Better Leaders?
McKinsey Quarterly article on the military not being able to retain talented officers......from 1999. https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_US_military_is_losing_the_war_for_talent_356
- WTF? (**NSFW**)