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    Blues on Monday

    in General Discussion

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    This quote should piss off every single operator on this board. I've been flying for almost 5 years and I have never, ever seen this "culture of complacency". If there is a culture of complacency, it exists among the REMF, who I have to back up everytime they mess up a travel voucher, "forget" to submit paperwork so I can get my orders, or come up with some other bullshit ancillary training program I have to take. Which leads me to the real "culture" that the Air Force is exhibiting...

    A caveat here, I was a FAIP and I just entered ACC. Nonetheless, I have never in my life seen more overworked professionals in my life. Even in AETC, I have almost 70 days of leave built up and I am one of the ones the with least amount. 12 hour days are the norm. Why is this? It's because we have to deal with all the other extraneous bullshit that takes away from our main duty, which is to "Fly, Fight, and Win". So, if anything, the people in the Air Force who put their pink fleshies out on the line everyday (the operators, not the 9-5 REMFs) suffer from anything but a "culture of complacency"...it's more of a "culture of being worn out flying worn out equipment".

    So ###### you for saying that my buddies and I are enthralled in your "culture of complacency". All the problems will be fixed when we get our priorities straight...

    Oh my gosh, I can't tell you how much I agree with this. It's so frustrating, everytime I try to make an appointment on their automated systems (so they don't have to get off their ass and answer the phone) I get bullshit like "all the appointments for a new ID card are taken up for the next two weeks". Or when I hear that finance is open from 9 to 3 MWF and 10 to 2 Tues/Thurs, WTF, Maybe they should be paid part time too. If flying made up even 10 percent of my job, I'd be thrilled.

    C-17 Globemaster Q&A

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    PHIK is a pretty great assignment right now. Seems to me like we're overmanned (too many copilots, too many IP's, and too many loads) Most of the co-pilots are fighting to go support the 2 EAS system. If the 2 EAS system stays around, as soon as PAED is full up it wouldn't surprise me to see a PHIK/PAED co-op taking a full 4 month rotation. I'm, on average, gone about 1 week a month. not including my deployment to "the box".

    Pilot watches

    in General Discussion

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    I've got a g-shock and love it. It's tough. Having zulu time available makes it much easier when crossing the international date line. I still can't keep straight what freakin day it is without it.

    Buying a house

    in General Discussion

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    Hey, I agree with you all about all the investing etc. I just PCS'd to Hickam and am absolutely blown away by the real estate prices. Some people say I'm crazy but I'm not paying 700,000+++++ for a roach infested crap hole of a house, and I'm not exaggerating. I was all for buying a house, even half a million at 24 years old was doable, but when I saw what I'd be getting I just couldn't do it.

    This just in...

    in General Discussion

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    I hope we catch him and put him in prison, but not solitary. We should put the biggest, nastiest pigs in his cell with him, hopefully they'll do him a favor and crap on him every hour or so just to make him smell better. Food, you betcha, pigs feet every day. I'm sure he loves pig feet.

    Info on OTS (Officer Training School)

    in ROTC & OTS Lounge

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    Tweet your right, you apply around half way through. The decision, from what I remember, is not made on flight experience at all. It's made on who performs the best at OTS. The guy from my upper class was an amazing leader and got his ENJJPT slot. The guy from my class was a prior marine who also worked his ass off and did well at OTS. So point is, don't worry about flight experience, just do as well as you possibly can at OTS, this means playing all the stupid games. By the way, when I was at OTS, only one person from each class was selected for ENJJPT

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