backseatdriver

So if it is Big Safari it IS shit?

And you think these guys didn't get promoted because your wing didn't take the board seriously? They spent their first couple years fucking up - there were 1000 other dudes who didn't spend their first couple of years failing training, PME, and getting DUIs. Here's an idea - if you don't want to end up in the bottom 5% of your year group, don't get a DUI, LOR or fail PME (ASBC?! YGBFSM!!). Technique only.

Really? How about the fighter squadrons that have actually been "expeditionary"?

What training is he in now? CSO?

Which was it? 1. Knocked up a GO's daughter 2. Kiddy porn 3. DUI 4. Previous FEB

I finished AU's masters program just before my Maj board and have been told by AU once the results are out there will be two ACSC-correspondence "pipelines" to register for: the full one, and the "supplemental" one - basically a "top off" for the guys who did the Leadership or WIC concentrations of the Master's as a Capt. Take the 4 tests for the blocks that weren't covered in your Master's (the four classes that make up the "Joint Warfare" concentration, i.e. the "full" ACSC Master's) and you're ACSC complete. Since you've already finished the Master's you DO NOT have to take the actual classes to finish - just the normal ACSC-correspondence tests for the 4 blocks you're missing. On a related note - for those that haven't started a Master's yet, AU is hands down the way to go. Don't have to deal with TA (therefore no ADSC), 95% of the reading material is provided via PDF (maybe a book or two to buy off Amazon - not actual textbooks), the stuff you're studying is actually relevant to your career (military history, organizational leadership, doctrine, etc), and grading standards are not very stringent. I'll be honest, I pretty much min-ran it to check the box and it did not require much effort. However, I still took some good knowledge away from it, and it's stuff I can apply now versus after I get out. And I'm almost half complete with ACSC to boot - not a bad deal.

Day 1: Fly Day 2: "Recovery" Day 3: Pre-flight I can see how that would burn you out....

Local news article

Here's a toast...

Her stated callsign (in a video on her campaign site - in between clips of her singing the National Anthem) is "Wedge" - story?

Doing what?

On the command discussion - my knowledge of the acquisitions world is extremely limited, but I believe all those "Director" job titles = "Commander" in acquisitions world parlance.

I've never tried going through the employee line, but haven't had any trouble going through the First Class line with my Mil I.D. Except at Tampa - they were adamant that we had to go through the coach line. The TSA is starting their PreCheck program at some of the large airports that speeds through frequent fliers that have had a background check. I've always wondered why there isn't a similar TSA program for military (or all gov't employees with a clearance). If I can be trusted with our nation's secrets, I should be able to forego the TSA cavity search.

You can't tweet "bomb" on an airplane!

Because why kill the enemy when you can deliver Combat Snapple and blacked out Bowflexes? Duh.

Wow - whoever does that website REALLY doesn't like Gen North.

I like that for all the detail of ADM McRaven's career they don't mention that he's commander of USSOCOM.

What's a....wait a sec...I see what you did there.

The WSO was on his first combat mission? Talk about shitty luck!

So after reading the combat hours story, a skim of the KAF website landed me here: 451st AEW Open House So we're doing open houses in combat zones now???

The key is CJSOAC approving them for wear in the AOR - then you can issue them. That's how we started getting the ABU flight suits.

To piggyback - an O-6 once explained it to me like this (when discussing why the AF considers SOS DG such a big deal) - "SOS is the first time you're compared/ranked against other people in the AF that don't look like you." Meaning in UPT, UNT, WIC, etc you're ranked against people from your same career field, airframe, etc. Therefore, the AF (promotion boards, etc) considers DG at PME (SOS/ACSC) as you standing out in the top 10% when compared to officers from all career fields and all over the AF. Now, having been through UNT, WIC, and SOS - the workload, skill/aptitude required, and competition is exponentially fiercer in two of the three. Do I agree with the emphasis the AF (at all levels) place on SOS over the other two? No. But like Rainman said: