Cell Dweller

Running a well-scoped program is hard work but not so challenging that one would need a 4.0 from Harvard. The core of the problem is that someone with stars on their shoulder said they wanted all the different logistics information systems consolidate into one big interoperable database. Once that ball got rolling, there was no stopping it until $1B was wasted.

Be mature and manage your own expectations when you know you won't see him for an extended period. There is a ton of technology that was not here five or ten years ago, so there is no shortage of ways to stay in touch. He will be in intense training for a good while, so understand that he may not always be able to make himself available. Too repeat myself, be mature. You will both be training to do work that you both love. If you both care for each other and want to be together, then both of you need to understand that you are working towards a better future.

Source confirmed, the word is finally getting out to the rest of AFMC.

Source?

Early returns have her down (sts) narrowly.

Google found out that the engines on the S-92 are improved versions in the T700/CT7 family. Depending on their configuration, the HH-60G gets about 1,900 SHP per engine, whereas the S-92 gets about 2,500 SHP per.

MiG-28, in hot!

If you look at the AFPC promotion statistics for the 2012 capt board, note that Pilot and Nav were the highest and lowest promoted categories IPZ, respectively. Pilot was 96.8%, Nav was 89.3%. Not all flyers were treated equal, as it were.

As long as your wife is a meek mouse who will take care of everything that could interfere with your job, you will be fine. If on the other hand, your wife has a pulse and a spine, you could have some challenges along the way.

You may want to look into the "not invented here" phenomenon. This has been and will be an issue in getting innovative designs to the field. It happens between services, as well as between office within the services. There may not be a lot of info on examples within the service, but it is well documented in the private sector and in the form of interservice rivalries as well.

As opposed to those who work on their masters while working a full-time job?

Rehash of TIB?

We should all be so lucky.

FIFY, the SEC East was back in the pack with the rest of the league. LSU and Bama both throttled Arkansas, the only other competitor in their division. Bama and LSU are both playing above the entire NCAA, so let's watch them play it out again to prove who is the best.

I think an 80's rock ballad to go along with it would have been nice

You'll have to face the fact that Jeremiah Weed has gone mainstream. It's real easy to find in liquor stores now, and there are several malt beverages that they produce as well. Guess the elbow-pointers will have to find a new mystical elixer.

Affording Defense by Jaques Gansler is out of print, but can be found. It was written in 1989, which was during a period of economic slowdown and military reform. It does a great job explaining the issues involved with developing and fielding defense systems from the industrial/acquisition perspective without going to extreme detail about fiscal law and regulations. The parallels between then and today are haunting, and it shows that little has change with the issues that are present today. Gansler has a few more books he did with MIT press that I have not read that are apparently similar, and delve into other issues with the industrial base and requirements and system development, and acquisitions.

USAF already has fully trained adversary units as well as operational units to provide various levels of training for the F-22s, such as during Red Flag, or other similar exercises. The T-38s would give a cheap way to practice many TTPs without requiring the expense of putting a bunch of F-22s in the air. The big picture shows that all necessary training capabilities exist. An advocate might even say that the flight-hour and cost savings of using 38s instead of 22s as in-house adversaries would pay for the TDYs required to send the 22s to various exercises. If money were no object, every fighter wing could have a dedicated adversary/agressor squadron and appropriate range space to train on.

Sounds like this guy attracts uppity cops. Is it normal for a cop to try and turn off the ignition if the violator is not compliant? Sounds like bad news to be sticking your hand in to someone's vehicle like that.

They should mandate that the missileers wear belts coming in and out of the hole (sts). Then the space cadets would join the movement.

Wow, this thread has broken down fast. Advice for Steve and SATCOM: Don't get butt-hurt because someone expressed their opinion on the internet.

Desert flight suits should not be allowed CONUS to S&M (that may be in the 2903), but if they are delployed to a desert AOR and serving in an S&M capacity where flight suit wear is appropriate, then the desert flight suit should be authorized. If there are serving in a deloyed location in a non-AFSC specific where a desert flight suit would be authorized if the position was held by a rated person, then the desert flight suit should be authorized for the S&M person. If it is a job where an equivalent rated person would be required to wear ABUs, then they should wear ABUs. But IMHO, if a missileer is on duty and not at risk of being sent for a shift in the tube, they should be in ABUs, or blues on Monday if CONUS. Same should be the rule for rated personnel who are not at risk of flying during the current duty day (DNIF'd, not sked'd to fly, sim).

One of the more questionable (in retrospect) namings was Robins AFB. During WWII, they built an Army Air Depot near Wellston, GA, but the officer in charge of standing it up wanted to name it after his mentor, General Augustine Warner Robins, who died of a heart attack and is considered the Father of AF logistics. The policy at the time said that all AAD's had to be named after the town they were based. Wellston was a nothing but a peach orchard and some cotton fields, so the town council agreed to change the town name to Warner Robins to appease the new command. When they built the AAD up to a full-up base, they named it Robins AFB. Of course the AAD is now an ALC, but it retains its original namesake. This is a good example of the BS that goes on at that base every day. A shoe clerk naming for a shoe clerk base.

ERAU.fail

Some facilities are managed as a grouping of equipment, and are considered systems. Engine hush houses are treated as a system, but the bare structure they are in/on is considered real estate. Military construction dollars buy and build real estate. A runway is real estate. This being said, anyone caught calling a hush house a 'weapon' system should be branded a tool. And anyone calling a runway a weapon system might as well call an outhouse a weapon system.