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Random thought I just had before my morning coffee kicks in.
As the KC-46 line gets up some steam, with Airbus tankers in an off the shelf status, wondering if there's opportunity for a private venture to acquire and employ a dozen or so tankers over the next several years.
DoD has found itself woefully unable to support it's training needs in both A2A and A2G, leading to the rise of Blue Air, Drakken, and ATAC, among others. Likewise, for years Omega has been filling the gaps in DoD's
probeand drogue coverage, and the premium on those assets is going nowhere but up as the numbers of grey tails goes down. Seems to me that a handful of tankers available on a contract basis is going to have no trouble finding business in the coming decades. As an aside, while they're not fighting fires, the heavy fire tankers haul trash in the off season; same model could be applied here. -
My discussion with the lodging manager about a TLF revolved around me and my three kids and dog in a one bedroom, and something about signing a liability waiver for the lead based paint (I had a two year old).
Nope.
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Go there
They're up at Alliance I believe.
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Some Chik-fil-a's are open on Sunday, guessing this would be such an example
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So 1980s
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BaseOps, like so many functions within the Air Force, has become its own rice-bowl economy, run by self-licking ice cream cones.
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30 minutes ago, ihtfp06 said:
Do you really want to take on more queep? I'm glad somebody else deals with filing for me. I had to self file through G2 once and it's a pain in the ass.Why deal with the baseops A1C who can't be bothered to open GP Ch4, or his NCOIC boss that makes shit up based on the day of the week.
I'd gladly file with ForeFlight if there was a scrubbed military option.
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NSFW pics in 3, 2...
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1 hour ago, carminsandiego said:
(no offense, Mudhens)
WHAT? I said "with all due respect".
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38 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
Agreed but there is a third way: single platform with multiple mission sets and roll on/off capability. This theory was touted on the AC-130W back in 2009 ish but it never seemed to work, in my opinion. Lots of METLs. Other folks have played around with the concept of having an infil/exfil aircraft with roll on palletized ISR and strike capacity. It's not dual qual per se, but you can have multiple mission form 8s for different configurations of the same aircraft, and the configuration changes include avionics and instrumentation display differences. That said, the only folks who can pull it off with uniform quality are selectively manned units.
That sounds like Air Force standard for over complicating the simple.
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+\- still an option if you click the heart
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In 2010 I was told that I'd received an assignment to RPAs. At the time, I was told that RPAs would be a "one way door": that I would likely never get a traditional flying assignment going forward.. Let's suppose that I would have a choice between the following two options:
A) I could participate in a dual qual program, where there would be ____ available to fly 1.5 times per week while I was in RPAs. All else would remain the same.
B) With my orders, I would be loaded into a TX to return to my grey-tail jet in FY+4yrs, reflected on my orders.
I'd take B, hands down. Two of the three hypotheticals that you state are RPA, and the idea of having an ACE or companion trainer program in RPAs is not new. However, two points: first, while in an RPA assignment, it's a full time gig. Whether in lean times and you're spending large chunks of time as seat meat so that your bros can take leave, or when big blue starts to scratch the surface of adequate manning, leaving time to get in the vault, develop some skills in a CT setting, etc., it deserves full time attention, just like ALO, DAO, white jets, etc. Let me go for a day so that I can go do AHC in the MOA or at best pew-pew some .50 cal into the rags, and that's a day that my bro can't take leave, or at the very least that the mission suffers. Second, an ACE or companion trainer at RPAs wouldn't have sweetened the bitter pill of the "one way door" mantra being peddled by HHQ. The only antidote to that was when guys started getting jets (TAMI, UPT-d, everybody) in 2013.
Time out of the cockpit is not a new concept. You're introduced to the idea in your commissioning source: remember the career progression pyramid that includes a "broadening" tour somewhere. That pyramid also showed that broadening is followed by a return to ops. Here's the rub: big blue hasn't been budgeting for a return to ops, at least not in the decade that I've been paying attention. Everyone departing for some gig out of the jet always had the same concern: having to "compete" for a TX to get back in the jet. "TX slots very limited, likely only available for leadership, Chief of Safety, or BNR this cycle. Korea will be the highest Pk for all others,..." Remember that boilerplate caveat on the Fighter Porch page in the portal? That's what folks saw (likely the first thing they looked at) when they had orders in hand to ALO/RPA/AETC/Staff, and it set the tone--it sent a value message to those that big blue NEEDED for the task on their orders.
Takeaways for Big Blue:
1) If you're not planning on a TX for every "broadening" bill paid, then you will reap what you sow for failure to adequately plan. It's nothing more than paying off one credit card with another.2) Pulling the CPIP punch at 10.0 crews/CAP? Fuck you, Big Blue. Standby for another round of soul searching (RAND, CBO, CPIP-II report) in 4-6 years. You never learn: until an RPA squadron is staffed and put on the same battle rhythm as any other AF squadron, the rest is all BS eyewash.
3) Someday, you'll need 11x's to help out and/or broaden in areas that might be fenced off today. When that time comes, if some A1 good idea fairy utters the idea of a "one way door", act swiftly and surely. Crush that idea in the crib, and quietly (or fuck it, publicly and loudly) remove said nearsighted dipshit from any remote chance of doing damage in the future--allow them to seek opportunities elsewhere.
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1 hour ago, MooseAg03 said:
Where the hell in TX is this? Super upscale master planned community? MUD taxes in a brand new development? Or downtown somewhere?
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkNah, that's about Bexar Co standard.
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16 hours ago, Guardian said:
But their previous mws requires five years of less out of the cockpit. Hence the problem. 2+ years at creech. No recat so forced PCS to holloman for another 3-4 years which takes them past the 5 years. Big blue wins and loses again. And goldfien fully supported it.
WOM.
AFI11-202V1
2.2. Requalification Training.
2.2.1. Unqualified up to 39 months at the end of a non-flying assignment, or up to 51 months at the end of any active flying assignment. Complete training in all delinquent items (as applicable), additional training as directed by the squadron commander, and a requalification evaluation IAW AFI 11-202 Vol 2 and AFI 11-2MDS Vol 2. An ETCA formal school flying training course (TX-3) satisfies this requalification requirement, if specified in the applicable AFI 11-2MDS Vol 1.
2.2.2. Unqualified 39 or more months at the end of a non-flying assignment, or 51 or more months at the end of any active flying assignment, up to 8 Years. Complete the appropriate ETCA formal school flying training course (TX-2) and a flight evaluation IAW AFI 11-202 Vol 2 and AFI 11-2MDS Vol 2.
2.2.3. Unqualified in MDS Over 8 Years. Complete the appropriate ETCA formal school flying training (TX-1) and a flight evaluation IAW AFI 11-202 Vol 2 and AFI 11- 2MDS Vol 2.
Don't know if MDS specific V1s are any more restrictive.
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6 hours ago, Guardian said:
Tami 21 guys who didn't re cat who got re flowed to holloman because the didn't re-cat didn't.If that's the case, then there's a failure somewhere in either the chain of command, the functional, the individual, or all of the above. One dude I knew who wanted to remain RPA had to lobby pretty strong to recat. This was when the 11F storm was cresting the horizon; porch didn't want to let him go. Or, dudes that are still (unwillingly) in droneville could be there as an easy bill payer for the porch, which again would be a foul, imo. Regardless, if they are still there, they are way beyond their commitment, and have had ample opportunity to exercise their prerogative options--at this point, big blue is not chaining them there against their will.
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4 hours ago, Guardian said:
They should be releasing the last of the Tami 21 people to the airlines any day.
Always cracked me up how the leadership said the UPT direct guys can go to in plane flying but the Tami 21 guys are f'ked
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsHuh? TAMI dudes were flowed back out to their jets about the same timeframe as the first UPT directs.
...unless they re-cat'ed
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Or just give them a call. Their number should be in the FCG.
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Huh...never would have guessed.
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5 hours ago, Prosuper said:
Got a bud who was a FE in the OKC unit. He told me the airplane was shaking so violently they could not see any instrutments or engine gauges. The A.C. guessed right and shut down the engine.
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Wow, stubborn motor.
Marines had something similar about 20yrs ago in a unit I was in. IIRC (second hand, wasn't on board the plane) one blade tossed itself about a half mile away, and the rest of the hub shelled itself, peppering the cockpit with fragments.
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32 minutes ago, ThreeHoler said:
Too bad he lifted a lot of that letter from a bad ass Marine who died defending his Harriers at Bastion.
https://www.grandforks.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/763766/leadership-lessons-commanders-guidance-marine-aviation-style/We'd be well served if a few more CCs took cue.
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2 hours ago, sqwatch said:
It wouldn't be so painful if it wasn't in all caps.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=irregardless&=true&defid=1408380
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkIrregardless (Siri auto-completed, btw), if the word gets used enough, it will gain normalcy.
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Sad part is that he's diluted his brand by his own actions. He had an enviable pile of credibility: here, on his own site, social media, all of it.
But then again, he wasn't the first down that road.
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This happens every year. They increment it out to the last two months, right before the next yg is supposed to start pinning, then cash out the remaining 40% remaining over two months.
Every. Year. Don't know why. At this point I don't actually think it's the shoe's fault.