Champ Kind

The A2CU is a functional uniform and is not intended for wear when another uniform is more appropriate. ^ Shoe clerks (with and without aviation experience) will focus on the bolded statement above. Good luck.

Wouldn't the remaining cargo carriers absorb the demand from USTRANSCOM for commercial airlift? It would mean that the government would have to pay a premium for that service with diminished competition, but being a jobs program ACMI carriers shouldn't be a part of the calculus.

As you alluded in your post, there are lots of options out there to be a UPT spouse and member of the ARC. We'll need some pics of your fiancé to help you narrow it down some more.

Good stuff, thanks. Does the student MLR only see your ROP (the same stuff the prom board would see), or do they also see the narrative only PRF from your last SR? What's the approx. SDE select rate for non-BTZ?

Are the DP allocations at the student MLRs the same as the SR/conventional MLR route?

Which is a datapoint to the ridiculousness of our evaluation system. We don't just rate the guy a shitbag, but instead we use cute "continue to challenge" or "upgrade when ready" language, or leave off the SOS push.

How's the weight on the Danner's? Noticeably lighter than the Bellevilles?

Did I miss something? Has HRC actually been charged with anything at this point? What's there to pardon?

I can 100% vouch for Amy. She took care of a re-fi for us several years ago. She and the rest of the NBOKC are great.

That's all well and good but you also have to reference the earlier comments about the USAF being infatuated with in-residence PME. Not completing PME via correspondence all but eliminates you for promotion contention, but doesn't do a great deal to help your case, either.

Any rumblings on increase to monthly flight pay?

Sq/CCs don't sign PRFs.

We just got Jepp pro...

Great flying and job satisfaction when accomplishing the mission. Awesome people for the most part (very few exceptions). But, you'd be foolish to pass up med school. Let me put it this way... once you are done with college, UPT, and your active duty service commitment from UPT (currently ten years, starting after training is complete), you are going to be at a much different place in your life to go back to med school. You can go to med school now and once you have a steady income, you can learn to fly and get your ratings. No, it won't be the same as raging in fighter or airdropping/hitting dirt LZs in the Mighty Herk, but I think it will satisfy the flying itch. If you truly have to pick between the two, go to med school.

FIFY.

When did 18X start? Edit: Nevermind... fine, I googled it. Jan 2012. T-minus 1.5 years or so until the sky falls in that community, too.

Sadly it's a double-edged sword. How many times have you heard a pilot say to a nonner, "This is the AIR force....." When you marginalize support personnel in that way, it is hard to have a leg to stand on when they make those "important" deployed jobs coded for pilots. "They can't hand out a basketball without poking an eye out or pay out a travel voucher in less than 6 months... why are we going to trust them to make operational-level inputs?" All that to say yes, the staff and deployed billets absolutely need to be scrubbed, hacked, whatever.

Actually, I predict that MAF leaders will want to protect their "investments" and keep their top guys (records-wise) in the community. Already seeing that in my neck of the woods based on the names in the discussion for being submitted to crossflow.

"National assets" Just ask them.

Not really a "nomination process", nor do you "meet" the TRB. Typically, when it's your turn, it's your turn. TRBs happen about once a month in the squadron, chaired by the DO, and any available instructor attends. There, they review pilots in the hopper for upgrade and examine prerequisites (GRACC, coloring book, hours, etc.) and then they basically ask for any feedback (positive or negative) suggesting they should accelerate or slow-roll said individual. Nothing incredibly formal behind it. There is a "certification board" that happens after your aircraft commander upgrade chaired by the squadron commander and usually attended by the DO and representatives from stan/eval, training, and safety. It's a 10-min meeting where they basically remind you of your responsibility, trust placed in you as an AC, and current squadron philosophies (i.e., "first phone call home wins" and all of that other risk-averse stuff these days). After that, the squadron Letter of Xs (certification tracker) is updated and you're on your way doing the Lord's work.

Average in the C-130E/H was about two years from new copilot to certified aircraft commander. The C-130J is around 18-20 months.

Never seen a senior rater that doesn't.

Wasn't the "practice bleeding" memo specifically intended to stop IDE selects from having to complete it in correspondence before going in residence?

snackostuff

Indeed.. wow. In my little slice of heaven, not having it done in correspondence is a non-starter for a candidate, you don't even get a push from the group. Without getting into a records discussion, it really is all luck and timing.