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Where is Robert Heinlein when we need him?!

Go troll somewhere else. This is actually a serious topic for adults.

Honestly, I'm stuck in a hotel and I have nothing better to do and this is kinda fun.

What you just said equates to "My own feelings are too loud to allow the introduction and analysis of facts. Look someone else understands some other facts that sound like they support me. By the way someone who has nothing to do with any of this died, so I'm right." If you were physically present, I'd slap you in the face, hard. Ask anyone here who knows me, they'll affirm that fact. Sometimes that's the only response to upset and end hysteria. I'm guessing you've never experienced such physical violence in your life. Perhaps you should seek is out. Like fight club, it might turn the volume down on these other stressors in your life. You emotions are important, that's true. These instructors are at higher risk than the rest of us, also true. Facts, however, provide context. These young (not 55 of older), hopefully fit, instructors or MORE at risk of dying from lung or heart disease or a freak car crash than they are from contracting COVID, even at their heighten exposure rate. If unique cases exist with at risk family members, those should be handled individually. We don't set guidelines based on the exceptions. Yes, we obviously test new inbounds. This is a risk mitigation measure...thereby lowering the risk you so ardently fear. The question remains: what are the COVID positive rates in the community that's so at risk? If the answer is nil, or virtually nil, the risk mitigation measures have worked...and the risk is being managed correctly. The sky is not falling. Stop carrying on like a petulant child who doesn't like being told he's wrong. That is exactly what the media, politicians, and the violent left/right side of our society would love for you to do and to get others to do. I am on your side, and I'm telling you that you're letting fear win. Stop it. No one else can do this for you. Stand up straight, identify and face the fear that's obviously assaulting you, then look at facts placed within appropriate context in relation to that fear, and respond with courage by telling your fear to sod off.

Setting aside the rampant ignorance that leads people to not want this vaccine, I can't pass on the necessity to clarify some science here: working with students has all of ZERO impact on someone's risk level. Age, health habits, and genetics directly impact someone's risk with this virus. Having a higher than normal interaction with multiple subjects may POSSIBLY (still not proven by the data we've seen) increase the likelihood of getting infected. However if an individual is young and healthy (i.e. doesn't smoke and isn't morbidly obese for starters) their level of risk is low, by the science and stats observed over the last year, of having a severe case of COVID if they get infected...meaning "low risk". Just because someone works with a lot of people does not make their job high risk. Please kill that false narrative wherever you encounter it. Our enlisted instructors would be better served by putting down the cigarette and the energy drink than by being kept away from students...or better yet, GET VACCINATED. Facts not fear

What I can't understand is why everyone is so up in arms about some old, old wooden ship!

How can the Bobulinski story be a hoax with so many verifiable hard facts? Just finished watching the interview. Seems legit.

Spoken like a stereotypical (thankfully it's a stereotype that the vast majority don't fall into) strat airlift pilot. You are ready for TACC.

Yes, this is what's right with the Air Force. In the midst of a political, social, and military stupidity, a C-17 crew landed an emergency airplane in the combat zone and NO ONE noticed. Dear crew: well done.

https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/nom_cmten.htm You're in the waiting game. I don't see the Air Force Lt Col list even on the list yet. If you are a 1 Nov pin-on and the Senate delays past then, I'm pretty sure you pin-on the date that they approve it. VMPF and myper promotion sections should have the exact details on that ROE though.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh man. That's rich. You're good. Tell another joke. For the education of the masses, "We" is spelled "Army" If you think the USAF is leaving any time soon, think again. Just like "We" left the middle east after Desert Storm. Yet the USAF has been deployed there ever since. USAF assets will be the second to last ones out. Not trying to rain on your parade. Just gotta be a realist about it.

So you probably don't recognize that the forces in place in Afghanistan pose a threat to a VERY limited region...namely...Afghanistan and it's very immediate neighborhood. Nothing in that country provides an ability to threaten China. At all. Moreover, the country is so unstable that we would never place forces there that could pose any form of threat to China. It would be wasteful and stupid on a plethora of levels. If you are going to apply geopolitical strategy games, make sure you also apply real world analysis to them. The underlying part you missed: logistics Amateurs study tactics. Experts study logistics.

Out of curiosity, have you spent any time in Afghanistan?

What speeds are typical for fighters refueling off a Herc?

Thank you for clarifying, I stand corrected. I've encounter a whole lot of ego and thin skin surrounding the primacy of the HUD in the C-17. Not a judgment, just a statement of my experience. //RANT// What is ultimately concerning to me is the institutionalized acceptance of mediocre engineer and lawyer crafted solutions to line operator problems with no input from said operators. Anyone remember the response to the F-22 pilot who was blamed for not flying his jet because he had no oxygen? (I know, a gross oversimplification, just hang with me, I'm ranting) Or on a micro scale, how about the functionality of the CNBP number pad on the J-model? Not a big problem, but an annoyance non-the-less. The mentality that we get handed "good enough" training, maintenance, and equipment with virtually no feedback channel it appalling. "But it's how the acquisition/training/regs/etc process works..." is the routine answer, with no one effectively challenging those processes. If we can improve things, regardless of how major or minor, we should. Instead we accept them, demand that others do the same, and even shame them when they don't. In today's aviation era, the C-17 should have a HUD that is allowed to be the sole source of flight information. Just like a C-130J should be able to fly GPS approaches. Just as both should have internal and external camera systems. Instead of fixing these things, we "make the best of it" because that's how we do it in X community, get with the program! In the end crews like those of Shell 77, Torque 62, this F-35, and countless others pay the price as they discover the holes in our training and technology. But don't worry, I'm sure a Warning in the dash 1 will cover it. //RANT//

One of these opportunities comes around only once in your life. The other will always be there. Factual download: the Extra 300 will NOT scratch that itch the way it wants to be scratched...they are completely different desires that look very similar until you're upside down at 15,000 feet.

...which is a way of saying that it's not certified as a primary IFR reference. God willing the new one will, and should be. Putting pilots in the half-way position is downright negligent. That's an issue we as an AF are coming up against right now: what are we considering "data reference fully safe to fly" We've got drones that do it. We're playing with booms that do it. So what exactly is a safe reference to fly off of? Obviously the unfortunate individual that is the topic of this threat got to play the game of "congrats you're a test pilot!" as he found one of the loop holes between software and hardware, reminiscent of the highly youtubed F-22 PIO crash where the airplane didn't know if it was landing or going around (see below...the pilot tried a low pass with the gear up and discovered the end of the airplane's digital code. It didn't know if it was landing or going around, and it fought the pilot). Thank God he was able to escape safely. Honestly, I am glad we are pushing this edge, but safely. If we don't, someone else will. I'd rather it be us.

C-130's are slow and parasite drag works great, especially when your gear cycles in 2.5 seconds. More likely, a photobird off your right wing sure makes this a great time to do...(insert whatever was in the 2 hour pre-brief). The Herc is probably doing 180-220 in this turn, which isn't "concerning" to a J pilot, but it is on the fringe of 'something bad could happen' especially at that bank angle and g. P.S. I love the Marines. I've known marines that I don't like, but The Marines are the epitome of excellence. ...because only the marines would look at this and say..."that checks, what's next?" If the master chief from Halo ever exists, he'll be a marine. EDIT: point of order, YES...that's an H-model C-130 as noted by #4's props, my J-model comments are, well, amplified.

In all fairness, the ATC dude is simply doing as he's trained. Military guys IFE almost at a routine rate (notice not a single word about the F-35 ejection...who's got his back besides JPRC?)...often for items that turn out to be nothing...but and it would be completely negligent for him to simply say "good luck!" A phone number pass to maintain a chain of communication may be the best he's got in that moment. As Clayton has mentioned above, he's trying his best to do what he can with what he's got. In the same right, a controller should be aware that a four engine airplane losing two engines, leaking fuel, and being on fire is not something to take lightly. I'm sincerely hoping he alerted emergency services of some kind on his own end. Still, it couldn't hurt for him and the crew to meet face-to-face and get some learning on both sides of the radio.

Um, yes? Though I'm not sure you have firm grasp of what "projecting" is. Should I consider it an honor to be trolled by a king troll? Why am I hearing mini-boss level music in the background?

As a good boss should. Congrats! Log into vMPF and it should show in the promotion section almost immediately after the results are posted.

Do you have an original thought you'd like to share? Just one?

Glad to hear you still have the fight. Is your commander in the fight with you? Honestly, he/she SHOULD be the one leading that fight with rage, fury, and an unquenchable lust for justice. You can still win that fight, I am simply curious as to the current state of leadership. BL: It is not your job to write your OPR, PRF, or get to the bottom of why you did or did not get promoted. That's a commander's job. If your commander is not leading that fight, I would gladly rip that faggotrous pin off their chest. Ability to command and lead is demonstrated, not earned.

In that case...call every single number in AFPC until you find her replacement. I'm not kidding. All the GS's know each other...and it'll likely be a GS. That's how I found the 365 deployment manager, the 179 deployment manager, and the BACN deployment manager. As for a supplemental, do everything and anything you can to get anyone to look at your record again. It's that simple. It takes a single person to recognize "well shit, we should have promoted this guy" for you to get picked up. We all wish it were different and that 'the process' worked to promote the right ones, but it's not that way. ANY reason to put your record in front of a different set of eyes is good.

There are some baffling results on that list, including a golden nugget APZ with a P an no IDE (seriously?!) who got picked up, yet there were multiple DPs NOT picked up. The lesson is: Go Guard/AFRC...but I digress... I know the pain of getting passed over and that game sucks any way you play it, especially with a DP. Sorry man. The good news is, this isn't the end, and if you don't make promotion later, the USAF REALLY needs you. It's weird, but it's true. Your commander should have a full data download and fact finding mission of his/her own...I'd be pissed if you were in my unit and this happened. However, the individual (my experience is 3 years old, so take it with a grain of salt) that conducts all the passed over counseling is a Miss Autumn Fowley (I don't have global, so i might be spelling that wrong) at AFPC. Passed over counseling is a one-on-one phone interview with her where your record is evaluated against a sampling of records from your board. She should give an assessment of what's different in the passed over record, and what items stand out as different and might have contributed to not making it. At no point will you get a 100% answer as to why you didn't make it. You will never know who was on the board, nor what was said about your PRF. Great process, right? (For frame of reference, Marine officers know who will be grading their board before they even turn in their PRFs, and are encourage to ask individuals why they didn't make it) Ask your commander what the current process is regarding continuation. That shouldn't be a player unless you get passed over 1 APZ though. If you are a flyer, you should get continued, but stranger things have happened. Ask your commander and don't quit until you have solid answer on the current process. If you don''t get an answer, consider skipping your commander, it's that important. The last thing you want is a surprise letter saying you've not been continued because of some form that wasn't submitted correctly (I've seen it happen). Again, this should all come from your commander. However, having experienced no support upon being passed over, I don't want you to suffer more frustration in this moment. PM me if you've got more questions.