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No specific feedback, but I do know SOF folks have been doing very good on promotion boards, PME, Command select boards. The style of combat since 9/11 means the SOF folks have garnered a lot of medals, trophies, and other accolades which have made them very competitive...in some regards too competitive to the point that other commands have complained and pushed back. As far as I know the number of IDE/SDE slots remains the same, but the pool of strong records in the SOF community has increase thus making it harder to get picked up.

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Landshark Rating: 10 Reason: My son walked down to the man cave and brought it to me.

I have a T-38 Pitot Tube hanging over the bar in the Man Cave.

I think it started at Kadena...

Rhonda Hollander, Florida Traffic Magistrate, Busted For Taking Pictures Of Men In Court Bathroom The deputy pointed her finger at the suspect and told her to stop snapping photos. But the suspect allegedly responded by attempting to bite the officer's digit.

Will the House drum up support to cut spending on military bands? Although most services also have bands that are stationed overseas, the Washington-based bands often go abroad. For example, the Air Force Band went to Japan last summer even though there already is a unit of the USAF Band of the Pacific stationed in Japan.

Trying to figure out what this one is. Looks like they have a few more of them over here. Are they D-21 drones?

No you fucking ignoramus...he was saying "both". If that "dead guy from the Vietnam era" was still alive he would most certainly punch you right in the snot locker.

Japan Temporarily Grounds F-15 Fleet

They updated with some high-res pictures...holy crap we have dismantled a great air force. 500 F-16's, 200 F-15's, 20 B-1's, A lot of Old B-52's and F-4's...kind of sad to look at.

And we have a new one!!! This time a douche nozzle put together a video with clips of some of my friends and is claiming it is him...unsat. If you have a spare minute I would ask for a "maximum effort" on this clown who is pretending he was an AC-130 Gunner during Desert Storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp330umvX44

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Very few O-6's have real power to affect change. Sitting wing commanders have some leeway, but the average O-6 can not. If I am ever in position, I will do whatever I can to make a difference. With the information I gained from this site I've done several things... #1. I have provided honest, candid, often painful feedback to the senior folks I know. #2. I made a promise to mentor those I think can carry the ball further down the field and make a difference...and I have honored that promise with several folks, some on this very site.

So, I have a favor to ask. I'd like to hear your thoughts on what is driving fighter pilot retention down. You can send them directly to my CAG at usafe.ccx@ramstein.af.mil. They'll strip names off the inputs, then pass them to me, unedited. I'm looking for the ground truth as you see it, not the filtered, watered-down "this is what the boss wants to hear" truth. Once I've seen it all, I'll give you some feedback...including what I plan to do with the info. Almost two months later and crickets...

Nope, I went to one of the other War Colleges.

My SDE expedience had nothing to do with reinforcing my leadership style. In fact, they did an anonymous survey of my past supervisors and the members and blended that with a 600 question psychological evaluation to help identify what type of leader I am and how to improve. We spent a lot of time study economics as an instrument of foreign and domestic policy and had the opportunity to discuss our current situation with Nobel Laureates economists from many competing disciplines such as Keynesian, Classical, Monetarist, and Neoclassical. I even got to stand in uniform on the floor of the NYSE for the opening bell (the traders gave us a standing ovation when we walked in). We spent the majority of our time studying strategy failures and success and tried to pull lessons from the past, however the most important lesson I learned was that there is no one book that provides a solution, especially to today's situations. Instead, I was taught a methodology to think through strategic problems and hopefully develop potential solutions. For me the SDE experience was really about access...I was in a very small venue so we met and discussed issues with SECDEF, all of the service chiefs, A Supreme Court Justice, most of the COCOM/CC's, Under Secretaries of Defense, DASD's, think tanks, famous authors (who both praised and attacked the military...including Tom Ricks), former senior officers including Gen Pace, Gen Zinni, ambassadors, The head of JP Morgan, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, industry captains, venture capitalists, and a host of other influential folks. Not once did I ever hear the words reflective belt, short socks, tall socks, or PT Gear. I did hear every service chief express concern for people. If there is a root cause for all the queep it stems from the fact that we senselessly and needlessly lose so many fine young service men and women every day and leadership overreacts as a result of what they see. I am not defending it, but at this point in my career I think I understand it. Tom Ricks is a blow hard who truly has not a clue. He loves the ground game and academic freedom prevents me from sharing his view of the Air Force...but I have zero respect for that close-minded idiot. As a lucky person who has done every level of PME in residence, I would most certainly make changes to PME if I had the opportunity, but the core is there, it just needs some tweaking.

Way off...USMC sends their tops dudes to ISE/ASG/SDE. It is the Navy that does not value PME for its fast burners. I had a guy (Helo driver), in my SDE class who never commanded, knew he would not command, and applied for retirement eight months after he graduated. The other Navy guy (Surface Officer), pinned O-5 on a few weeks after class started, had never commanded and did not make the cut his first look. The rationale for taking guys out of the fight and sending them to school for a year is not to take a year off, it is supposed to be to build strategic thinkers who can shape the fight at the next level (did not work in my case, I are too dumb).

thanks for the info and a great first post. Good luck with your project, I am glad someone likes those airplanes...they just don't appeal to me. The look like my Son's lego man took a square dump. Nice performance for the price though.

STS and your wife says you have a history of that.

NY Man Busted Pretending to be Soldier for First Class Upgrade Diaz -- who sources said never served in the military -- also had a black POW patch on his sleeve, which an actual soldier would never wear in that spot, the sources said. His dog tags were comically engraved with the words, "USA Marines Corp."

I own two and would buy another if I see a good deal.

Man accused of posing as AF 2-star general

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