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    More Uniform Changes!

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    Does anyone there still wear the green flight suit? I don't see why we couldn't wear either in garrison. The win will be to scrap the ABU in favor of OCP.


    There's still a handful of people that wear the bag, and there's also a decent amount of non-flyers who wear their ABUs instead of the OCPs.

    There's never been any issues with "convenience stops" that I'm aware of, so for me there is zero reason to wear anything but OCPs all the time. Getting rid of the ABUs for the OCPs would definitely be a step in the right direction, IMO.


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    More Uniform Changes!

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    I did not misunderstand you. Leadership doesn't want the entire AF in OCPs in garrison.

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    Then there is some miscommunication between leadership (this is my shocked face). The Wing/CC direction at HRT was basically "I can't force everyone to wear OCPs every day but I strongly suggest you start." That sounds like a push towards everyone in OCPs to me, but again, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a difference in directives among senior leadership


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    More Uniform Changes!

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    Not going to happen.

    Leadership believes we should have a uniform for in garrison that distinguishes us apart from the other services. When we deploy with our joint partners downrange is when we should look as one team in order to make it harder for the enemy to distinguish between the services.

    Not my words, just relaying what was conveyed in an open forum less than a week ago at Maxwell.

    You misunderstood me. I said the entire AF should be in OCPs; that way we all look the same rather than some being in OCPs, some in flight suits, some in blues, and some in ABUs. I don't care about looking the same as other services, I just think there should be some uniformity across our own service

    If they don't want us looking like we're deployed, then it seems kind of silly to be approving/directing folks to wear the OCPs at home. Of course talking out of both sides of their mouth certainly isn't above senior leadership...

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    Active Duty to Guard while in UPT

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    i'm AD UPT bound and i just spoke to the former FS/CC of my old ANG about the possibility of switching components again (back to guard) before/during/prior to UPT. previously their position had been "we can't get you an age waiver, so we can't help you even if we wanted to." well, i got one from the AD, i believe for medical since it was a delay in approving my flight physical. as a result the former FS/CC he offered to push the issue to help get me "home." any more info on that Capt's transition or any other recent examples? need to determine if there is a path before i make my case.


    If you want, PM your .mil and I'll try and get you in contact


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    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    And how often do things become unraveled when just one or more of your 13 crew members are well below average? 


    While I don't have nearly the experience of CH, the times I've seen the situation you describe has not been as detrimental as you might think. Yes, there are definitely times when one person can suck enough to pull the entire crew's SA down, but more often than not other strong crewmembers can pick up the slack until everyone is back on track.

    In the case of someone really being terrible enough to be detrimental to the entire crew, it's about the same as a single-seat aircraft being operated by a crew member who is well below average.

    there is no one answer. 


    THIS


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    Commercial Aviation air refueling

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    If I had to throw out a possible customer, it would be Emirates or someone like that who could use the plane as a PR stunt for "the world's longest non-stop flight" or some nonsense. 


    This is the only situation that will ever make this a reality. Current major fleets don't need them, and any smaller companies who would use it to move up in competition couldn't afford it because they're too small to pay for all new AR-capable tails.


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    The Next President is...

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    As HU&W said, the statistic is meaningless when corrected for population; so here are those numbers...

    Population of Texas = 26.96 million (2014)
    Population of Massachusetts = 6.745 million (2014)
    Population of Califonia = 38.8 million (2014)
    Population of Alabama = 4.849 million (2014)


    That's what I figured...comparing Texas to Massachusetts just didn't sound quite right. Thanks for the numbers


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    The Next President is...

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    FWIW there were nearly 2x more Hillary voters in Texas than in Massachusetts. There were also more than 3x more Trump voters in California than in Alabama.


    Do you have a source for this? I'm not arguing about it, I'm genuinely interested to see statistics showing it to be the case. I would think it's because of the population differences, but not to that extent.

    we need to do a better job of working to find common ground rather than assuming the worst about the "other side."


    Truth. The biggest problem is that the MSM and the parties themselves only portray the insane extremism of either side, which brings out the crazies on each side, which polarizes the non-crazies of each party even more, and all of a sudden you have a self-perpetuating machine of idiocy


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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    Realize the fundamental error of regarding such functional notions with hatred is not quite equivalent to an important distinction in vocabulary use. A consequence of the approach you seem to be taking is that any associated supporting elements for your distaste are likely different from any abstract underlying order. In the discussion of presumptive confabulations, an important property of such with respect to the ultimate standard is the the accuracy of any proposed grammar. Comparing the earlier examples with their parasitic gap counterparts, we see that the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition suffices to account for the strong generative capacity of your emotion. Note that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is, apparently, determined by nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.


    I think this might be my favorite post of this forum, next to the NSFW picture thread from the Squadron Bar of course


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    Getting into the AF Academy

    in Q & A Forum

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    You'll need atleast a 3.75 GPA with APs if you want to get into the Academy.


    This is 100% anecdotal and not a standard. Granted it was well over 10 years ago when I was involved with it, but I saw plenty of people get admitted with less than that (myself included). Don't let a GPA dissuade you from thinking you can get in. Of course, if you've got a 2.5 you're probably not going to make the cut.

    Also, there are lots of secondary options to getting a spot at the zoo if it's really what you want. You've got the academy prep school itself, but there are several other prep schools that the zoo will send people to on what's called a "falcon scholarship." You spend one year there (there's on in CA, NM, and a couple others) and don't fail any classes and you're guaranteed acceptance to the zoo the following year. You can also pay your own way at these same prep schools and do what's called "self-prep" and it just makes your resume look a lot better for the following year.

    But don't get this starry eyed view of the academy either. ROTC (or OTS) is no less legitimate than the academy and there's a good argument that it's better. And once everyone commissions and pins on 2LT, where you went to school won't ever matter again.




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