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I also found it weird that for his assignments prior to being a commander he only lists his desk jobs in his duty titles and doesn't include that he's a pilot and which airframe. I've never seen that before. Shows what he prioritizes for an Air Force officer.
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Another vouch for David from myfinishingtouch.com. He did a couple nametags for me with a C-17 on one and a T-6 on another and then also a couple tab patches for me. All of them turned out great with a pretty quick turnaround.
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Duck, sent you a PM
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1 hour ago, HuggyU2 said:
What a mistake by the Corps. Their "leadership" is either unaware... or simply has become a den of bureaucrats.
Sadly it appears to be a deliberate decision made by the base CO due to budget constraints. Hopefully they can figure out a way to keep it open.
According to MCAS Miramar director of communications Capt. Matt Gregory, the base's commanding officer, Col. Charles Dockery, decided to close the museum due to budgetary constraints.
"Over the past 10 to 15 years, we’ve tried various different strategies to align all those rules, regulations, and get that into a coherent strategy for the museum to move forward, and we were just never able to get there," Dockery said.
"The air station annually pays over $400,000 to the museum’s salaries and operations, and that money is now being planned for reallocation toward higher-priority missions -- breathing apparatus equipment for flight-line firefighters and rescue, for example," Gregory said.
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9 hours ago, jazzdude said:
I don't remember at any point the AF saying during the pilot manning crisis "we need you. We need you to stay because we value your experience and your ideas. Our country needs you. But my words don't mean anything without actions, so here's what we are going to do to show you the service values you." Of course, that also has to be followed up with actual action, or it undercuts the credibility of the GOs, and pushes people out.
One of the better GO speeches that I’ve heard was Gen Everhart at the 2017 A/TA convention. He was AMC/CC at the time. At the end of the speech he pulls out a chair and talks about retention and flat out says we need you to stay and we need people of your experience level to stay. He then talks about why he has served for almost 30 years. It was pretty refreshing to hear that from a GO.
Fast forward to 44:30 for the end of the speech and then 49:30 for the we need you to stay part
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Would also recommend doing a drift boat charter for King Salmon on the Kasilof River and then getting a guide for wade fishing for King Salmon on the Anchor River. Beginning to mid June is about the peak for both of those runs. You can pack a lot of awesome fishing into a 10-14 day trip on the Kenai Peninsula in June.
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For June I would recommend staying at a couple different places down on the Kenai Peninsula. I would highly recommend staying in Coopers Landing in mid June for fishing the Kenai and Russian Rivers for the first run of Sockeye (Reds) Salmon and Rainbow trout. Opening day is usually June 11. You can wade fish on the Russian and then would recommend taking a drift boat on the Kenai. Lots of good guides in Cooper landing that will get you on fish in both rivers. Homer is also a great place to visit and going out on a Charter Boat and fishing deep for Halibut is a great time. You almost always get your limit and usually walk away with a bunch of fish that costs about $20 a pound in the store. Definitely go on a private charter and don’t go on the large party fishing boats that go after smaller halibut. There are a couple different fish processing places that will flash freeze and vacuum seal your fish for reasonable rates so you can fly it back home.
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2 hours ago, Hacker said:
Well, aside from being a former "fighter guy" I also have spent the last 5 years wrangling #300,000 airliners around, so I'd like to think I have a little insight there as well. I took that photo I posted of a poster on the wall of where I work.
Nowhere did I say it wasn't an area where people have and do make airmanship mistakes.
I was making (theoretical) fun of a military branch, who kills people and breaks things in some of the most hazardous-to-life actions and locations in human existence, allowing the force's skills, training, and currency to degrade to a point where something as basic as a visual approach becomes "more challenging" than the mission things.
Copy all. My post was after a “few” beers so didn’t catch that and called you out instead, my bad.
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22 minutes ago, Royal said:
Symptomatic not causal
F-35-The AIB President found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the mishap was caused first, by the MA touching down at 202 KCAS, and second, by the MA flight control surfaces, namely the tail of the aircraft, conflicting with the MP inputs upon landing, resulting in the MP’s inability to recover from the aircraft oscillation.
F-16- The Accident Investigation Board (AIB) President found by a preponderance of evidence the cause of the mishap was the MP’s failure to correctly interpret the approach lighting system and identify the runway threshold during his first landing attempt, which resulted in severely damaged landing gear.
Both mishaps were causal by the pilot not executing a safe night landing in VMC.
if you’re getting at that the cause of the crash is decreased pilot training/hours then I agree with the F-16 crash; the F-35 crash was an F-15E IP with plenty of experience.
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11 hours ago, Hacker said:
I can't wait for the day when Big Blue starts shooting off the same platitudes that the airline industry does about, "visual approaches are the hardest thing we do".
I know you’re a fighter guy so you scoff at all things involved with flying an approach and landing as motherhood and admin- but look at the data; a lot of mistakes happen in those phases.
I actually researched visual approaches for my BS embry top-off paper since I was intrigued by the only two operational go arounds I had seen in the C-17 being from visual approaches. We do a ton of canned local patterns and a bunch of instrument approaches but when dudes get the random “Cleared for a visual” they’d F it up.
The ASRS database actually had a lot of info on mistakes on visual approaches. Not surprisingly most instances of trying to land on the wrong runway or taxiway (Seattle in particular) were from visual approaches. The takeaway from almost all of them was ignoring ILS/LOC/MFD data. This is also very true in the C-17 landing at Peter O Knight instead of MacDill with Centcom/CC onboard.
Add: The Shaw F-16 and Eglin F-35 crashes also show the importance of not neglecting the training for a VMC night landing.
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2 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:
They’ve since apologized for the mistake and corrected it.
Good for them, actually happy to see them owning the mistake instead of just deleting it with no mention
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Another example of PA buffoonery
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Appreciate all of the responses.
Any thoughts on signing the 3 year bonus? I’m supposed to be at my current duty station through April 2022 so that might allow me to stay here the whole time and then hopefully get hired by the airlines and be at the front of the next hiring wave (assuming they start hiring again in 2-3 years). I’d then have to try to get my last 2 years through guard/reserve which may or may not be difficult.
One negative I can think of is if the airlines aren’t hiring in 3 years then I’d probably miss out on the last 2 years of bonus.
Thanks again.
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I’ve asked a similar question looking for advice and inputs before but obviously things have changed in the last few months. I’m a Lt Col at 15 years and my ADSC expires in December. Pre-COVID, I was planning on putting in my paperwork this summer to separate in December for the airlines. This is also my bonus year and I have until the end of July to either not take it, take 3 years, or take the 5 years. My STRD is December 2005 so I’m semi worried about a 365 at some point. Am I crazy to think about signing the bonus or should I just stay a free agent and hope for a rebound in airline hiring? It would definitely be a bummer to end up serving the whole 20 because I never got hired and not have received the extra money but being a free agent and having options also sounds nice. Appreciate any advice.
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23 hours ago, StoleIt said:
Bah, I was looking forward to attending the MacDill AFB...hope they don't cancel it.
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Starting to work on my airline applications and was looking for some recommendations for books and resources to help with the application and interview process.
Are the following books worthwhile to buy?
Cockpit 2 Cockpit
Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot
Checklist for success: A pilot’s guide to the successful airline interview
Would you recommend Milkeep to help convert my hours?
Any specific recommendations for application review and interview prep companies?
Any other advice in getting started?
Thanks!
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On 9/9/2019 at 1:33 PM, ayz33 said:
Anybody know of any modern books that are similar to Thud Ridge?
A Nightmare’s Prayer: A Marine Harrier Pilot’s War in Afghanistan was a pretty good read.
https://www.amazon.com/Nightmares-Prayer-Marine-Harrier-Afghanistan/dp/1451608071/ref=nodl_
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34 minutes ago, ThreeHoler said:
You know there are not many 365s left, right? They’ve been converted back to 6-monthers for the most part.Yea I’ve seen the spreadsheet on AEF online. They’ve definitely decreased the amount of non-commander 365s but the ones that are still out there (including the safety positions which I qualify for) are enough to motivate me to either get a STRD from Korea, try to get hired by the airlines, or try to switch to the Guard/Reserve.
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Thanks for the replies. Good advice about not volunteering for a bad deal. If I stay on Active Duty, I would have to think that having a recent STRD as opposed to my current one from 2006 would lessen my chances of a 365 to the desert but that would definitely suck to do two 365s in a 5 year span.
My other option would be try to find a Guard or reserve unit that would hire me full time for my last 4.5 years. Not sure how feasible that is with being a Lt Col when my ADSC expires.
Thanks again for the help!
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Thread Revival
I’m an O-5 select with 14 years TIS and an ADSC that expires in December 2020.
Looking at my options for the future and one of them is trying to get a year gig in Korea and then sign the 5 year bonus which should get me to 20 years with avoiding a year in Afghanistan.
I am curious about how it works to bring your wife and kids with you for the non-command sponsored year assignment. Will I still get my BAH at my last duty station. Am I able to get a place off base and then have them live with me? Would I have to pay out of pocket to live off base? How does it work if they get sick and need medical care while there? What about a dog, if we paid for him to come over on airline, are apartments pet-friendly over there?
Any other issues I should think about it?
Thanks!
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6 minutes ago, waveshaper said:
Some updated CDI info on this "phenomenon [redacted] of drawing d---s everywhere," :<) "'D---s Everywhere': B-52 Squadron Known for Lewd Drawings on Deployment: Air Force"
So he didn’t condone the behavior, tried to stop it, and still got fired. Sounds about right for the AF.
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8 minutes ago, congressman said:
Does anybody know this guy, email or anything? I am pretty furious reading about this and I want to talk to him, make sure this isn't a part of something bigger, and if not see what I can do. I am just over it...we are fighters but the Social Justice Warriors expect us to be social workers
I know him from my first ops assignment. Great guy, heard he was a great SQ/CC as well, both at home station and deployed. Overall, I don’t know if there is more to the story though. I will PM you his Air Force email this morning. Appreciate you willing to look into it.
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2 hours ago, Jetpilot said:
I was referring to dudes who were 1 BTZ. I wanted to clarify if the above statement referencing the colonel applied to IPZ folks or BTZ.
Copy, yea I wasn’t sure if you referring to BTZ or ITZ. I haven’t heard of anybody ITZ while in school getting passed over but your statement checks with what I have seen for BTZ while in school.
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3 hours ago, Jetpilot said:
Is this for the upcoming O-5 board in March because it certainly was not the case for the last one. I have at least a dozen examples that would state otherwise.
Are you saying that you know a dozen people that were ITZ while at school and did not got picked up for Lt Col?
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The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)
in Squadron Bar
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“Slife said he has asked Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to direct the service’s inspector general to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations in the email.
“The results of that independent review will be provided to the secretary, and we can trust the secretary will take steps he believes are in the best interest of the department,” the three-star general added.”
Sounds like it will be the HAF IG.