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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    2 hours ago, jice said:

    Gotta figure out some way to pay for the $50k bonuses we tricked a bunch of 27-year-old-second-assignment-no-ground-duties bros into taking.

     Anybody have previous years’ increments handy?

    You talking about that early bonus thing?  Did anyone actually take it?

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    5 hours ago, Swizzle said:

    Not for those 5 who made it or didn't depending upon the real #...just sayin'

    In the context of trying to figure out when someone will promote based on their line number before the increments are posted it is.   If you’re 1207, you’re not going to have a line number on vmpf so it doesn’t matter.

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Interestingly, a buddy of mine ended up getting selected for the program to get a Master's right out of ROTC. He regrets doing the program because all it did was put him 2 years behind his peers. I guess if he wanted to go to TPS it would help immensely but, otherwise someone would really have to dig into his records to see he got selected for that program in the first place, unlike Phoenix. It didn't help him at all professionally.
    So, even when the Air Force claims to value advanced degrees...they really don't.

    I went to UPT with someone who did an AFIT masters… they are an astronaut now


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    God forbid people spend their time focused on tactical proficiency.
     
    It's sad because I joined the Air Force because the patriotism, camaraderie, and mission resonated with me. The longer I stay in the more the Air Force pulls me away from those things.
     
    FWIW, this masters policy affects me zero percent. I have a masters, made major last year and have no plans to stick around 1 second past my 10 year adsc. But it's the latest in a litany of tone deaf policies that have nothing to do with winning the war that we look increasingly likely to lose, while also leaving a sour taste in everyone's mouth. 
     
    The HAF level leadership has been so bad for the last 5-10 years that if I wasn't an ardent subscriber of Occam's razor, I'd suspect sabotage. 

    It also affects me zero as well as I don’t have a masters and made o4 last year too


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Looks like I was pretty close on the masked/unmasked iterations in my career. If the AF truly cared about you having a Masters, they'd send you to a brick and mortar school. At the very least, they'd provide time during the normal work day for you to work on it.  Getting a bullshit masters from Touro online is a waste of everyone's time/money and window dressing at best.  They should work on things that give you more quality time with your family, not less...

    Exactly. I think part of it is that they can see retroactively who has masters and who doesn’t and they are pissed how many o4 selects don’t have it and they slugged through getting a check the box degree to be eligible to go to ACSC in-res just to get ANOTHER check the box degree and they are mad that the rest of us chose more time with family/primary duties than some Liberty University bs


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Genuinely curious, do some commanders tell their folks there’s nothing good on the outside? I was on the fence a few times in my career and it wasn’t ever a conversation of not having opportunities on the outside, it was just a discussion of various options and the pluses/minuses of each.
    For me, I’ve stayed in because the flying is awesome. Surprisingly they keep promoting me but I’m still in the cockpit almost 20 years later! 
     

    Yes. I’ve heard of commanders specifically citing that the airlines will just treat you like a number.

    Also had a commander who ran into a pilot that had recently separated and started flying for an air line a couple months before and was ragging him on how the airline life sucks despite the face he was just an o-5 with 0 airline experience


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Force shaping? LOL…welcome to 2022 bro, it’s called an airline hiring spree. Anyone left in the 09-12 YGs who stuck around pretty much only need to be able to fog a mirror…

    I know so few people in the 10-15 YG that are going to or have stayed in. I’m pretty sure I can count on one hand.


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    2 hours ago, BrightNeptune said:

    For any '14 people on their first board or '13 people facing their second after getting passed over: If you are at all interested in getting out I can share what I learned through my process of writing a letter to the board and cutting more than a year off my UPT ADSC by getting passed over a second time. I was hired by a legacy airline that asked zero questions about rank, timing, OPRs, additional duties, job titles, or any queep that only matters in the Air Force. 

    If you want out early you can 100% do it by playing by their rules. 

    PM for details.

    Did you get paid severance?

    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    Was there a Joint Spouse or something else influencing that decision?  Obviously, CSO IPs don't have the same instructional skill set...hell, the student doesn't even get to land the plane, much less get prepped to go fly a solo.  I'd hazard a guess that the PNAS location is a placeholder for Whiting field where UPT is at.
     
    Regardless, yes...either way a FAIP assignment to Pensacola has to be the best thing going!   

    Nah. It was just tossed in there.

    No way it’s a placeholder for Whiting. The AF hasn’t sent a student there in over 7 years


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    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    False hope is literally the AF’s favorite management tool.  Without it, the Bobs might actually have to lead.  

    It’s really the only management tool

    “Bust your ass and maybe you can get *insert desired assignment here*”

    “Do this to make sure you don’t close any doors”



    I quit that game years ago


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    SOS/ACSC information

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    I 7-day opted out of SOS. Big Blue wouldn't let me go, but I got "orders" to SOS and it had the 7-day op at the bottom. I checked the box, and it somehow sailed through.

    Tell me more, I’m intrigued


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Except for the position, cgo, and jr cgo strats which are meaningless, the flight strats that are meaningless, the IDE push statements that are meaningless, the fact that through dumb shell games and timing up to 3-4 people can hold the same strat at once, the fact that every base writes OPRs a little differently, and the meaningless platitudes that make your average line flyer sound like a combo between John Boyd and Robin olds.
     
    Oh and you are stratted against captains that could potentially be 5 years younger than you. And we're told masters status is masked till O-6 boards.. oh wait never mind the wing king can see it and will push you accordingly. 
     
    I'm not upset, I made the majors list and my line number is about where I expected. Ive been an exec and seen how the sausage is made, and I like to think I'm decent at reading the tea leaves. But for anyone outside the top 10% you have to sift through a literal mountain of shit to get an accurate picture of where you stand.
    This is one of many reasons the Air Force has retention issues. We spend 8 years sugarcoating and obfuscating people's performance and then wonder why they're surprised when their board results aren't what they expected. 

    Yeah you’re right. Idk I guess as someone who got a line number in the lowest 10% it was rich when my rater encouraged me to jump through a bunch of hoops and rack and stack all the IDE in-res programs when it would probably take an Avengers type blip for me to get selected. I chose to click the “I do not wish to be considered” button than waste hours of my life ranking these programs instead.


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Its hilarious that the merit-based line number is literally the first clear data point you get in your career on where you stand in your peer group. 

    8 years in seems a tad late to be getting your first piece of real feedback. 

    I mean the data is kind of already there. If you aren’t getting strats on oprs because you probably aren’t volunteering to do extra shit or writing 1206s for quarterlies. Because that’s what the board is probably looking at when making these lists.

    Additionally the PRFs all had an x/x for anyone in the top 95% to also give the board a real quick relative standing. And education wasn’t masked for wg/cc so you know everyone without a masters already was put lower than those who went and got it


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    I don't know why they made a big deal about masking line numbers. You can just look at promotion month and essentially get an officers relative order of merit to within 8%

    Yeah kinda strange. They don’t mask the line numbers for the Es so why do it here? And yeah everyone figures out when you’re pinning on in August that you probably aren’t the shiniest penny


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Speaking from experience, they got rid of line numbers by time in grade and they are now by order of merit.  So your line number tells you exactly where you ranked in your promotion group.

    Yep. Don’t know the guy or line number personally.

    The big thing with the line numbers now is funny because they wrote everywhere that your line number is just a snapshot of one time your relative standing among your peers.

    Gtfo, someone in the bottom half of that shouldn’t have smoke blown up their ass telling them they could do all this cool shit and should only start hanging with ANG/AFRC and working on their airline apps.


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    VA disability that doesn’t affect FAA/ civilian flying

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    Guard pilot friend of mine is a VA Rater in his civilian job. Said there are plenty of people flying for the majors rated at 100%.

    I ran into this guy at an FBO the other week. He’s flying part 135 now after he retired from American Airlines, before that LA Guard F15s, before that AD and separated 100% disability because he ejected from a T-38 over NM in the 80s.


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