BFM this

Why not, exactly? Adolescent Top Gun inspired self image misconceptions aside, it looks like a Jiffy Lube outfit. It's a uniform. As long as I can get better functionality and don't end up wearing dungarees, meh... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Halleluja! ...so, think there's any chance of a HUP for Acrobat around the corner? Just swapped my stock 500G spinner for this. SSD speed (to a point), but at 1TB spin price. (Early 2011 15" MBP i7, 16Gb) This had me up and running with my CAC reader of choice. So easy, even I made it work. From there, yeah, basic accessibility isn't a problem through OSx. Once the emails go AF-secure, or I have to work with .xfdl, then it's over to the Bootcamp side , though I have a copy of Parallels 10 in the mail next week, so we'll see how that works.

That was the best thing about IFF at Moody. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

If you don't suck at your job (enough to gain notoriety), and don't mind living in CA (or some random corner of the planet for 3-6 months out of the year), then post-AF you won't starve for the foreseeable future.

Plausible. But not in this particular case. Regardless, why should we be planning to have an officer who is administering the oath to have to make that call on the fly? That should be sorted out ahead of time. This should get fixed, and imo it's an obvious fix.

Somewhere on your outproccesing checklist is TMO. Go talk to them. From what you describe, mail is your best option otherwise. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

This discussion seems to repeat itself. And the punchline is usually the same: we won't know the final figures until late October-ish. At that time, AFCrimes will write a puff piece quoting someone at A1 proclaiming that the arrangement of the deck chairs has never been better.

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Starting at the top left: Is that some sort of Flock of Seaguls reboot?

MCE at Patrick, and another at Hickam (Or Guam, even). Not that this has EVER been suggested before, mind you. Creech: it's vital like the F-35, but more painful. Fuck it: my fini is tomorrow...barely care.

Agreed. My idea wasn't to debate the technological merits of any one path, just to highlight that the next paradigm shift will be something more creative than just shoving old-thinking square pegs into round new-technology holes. It isn't the science that's lagging this fight, it's the thinking, imo. If stakeholders don't want clowns determining the way ahead, then ignore the clowns, but don't remove yourselves from the discussion altogether.

I think that even this guy is suffering from old-school thinking and a lack of imagination. One question that he never tackles (and should be tackled given current tech) is: why did I even end up in a BFM engagement? He doesn't even have to take the man out of the loop in order to leverage some of his ideas into a big step forward tactically. For instance: how about the ability to smuggle an AAM into the heart of the enemy CAP? Using the Bone as an AMRAAM truck had been talked about at one point; the major con there being that the Bone is vulnerable in an A2A grudgematch. RPA necessarily makes stealth an easier design task. So now, instead of F22s/F35s datalink-cuing a Bone-load of AMRAAMs from a standoff position, now they get to do the same with missiles pre-positioned in the middle of the enemy formation. If anything this is a more achievable capability with current technology, before his iteration of Skynet is available.

CFI is a separate card from your pilot license, which will list those privileges. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

With the 10 year commitment, it doesn't take much prior time to miss the eligibility window. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

This is a repeat from about 6 years ago. At that time, rated was excluded. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

I'm betting that in some narcissistic way, they found validation in getting called out by CSAF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75cVj4m2x0Q

What do you mean? The A-10 never had a flight engineer to begin with. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

"Someone is missing? Wait...WTF? Why didn't somebody tell us? We have a right to know, goddammit!" Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Which is it? Free or Managed? If it's managed, then it's not totally free. Brought to you by the same grasp of language as those who can't quite understand the definition of "infringed"...

And 2011 Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

This makes no logical sense whatsoever, but could have been used as an excuse to have far better PT wear than the craptastic shit we have now. Therefore: valid!

...meanwhile, in the Air force...

18 months sure would have been nice... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

If you get an email this week saying that your approval had been a mistake, then you'll know Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!