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What keeps the AF from contracting out RPA operators? Sure, you want a mil dude to pull the trigger, but that has to be roughly 0.5% of total time logged... Within the DoD, we have contractor-operated RPAs and ISR platforms.

As I understand it, the air staff essentially recruits from ACSC. The best a current SR can do is call one of his bros for a BNR. The only "beyond the staff tour" planning I've seen is for the AFPAK Hands folks.

AF Finance and DFAS are two separate clusters....

As much as we all hate Tops in Blue, it really is a drop in the bucket compared with anything of strategic importance. The AF is doing a poor job at clearly articulating what the 2020 threat picture looks like. Boys... it's scary. The JSF may be an ugly prom date, but it's the only one we have for delivering meaningful amounts of interdiction capability in a contested environment.

That only works if you believe your CC will back you up. For some guys, stating "I want to fly white jets" turns into a perverted logical reason not to strat a guy. This "honest and open" tactic works great if the boss uses that same method.

What's the difference between a gay guy and a CSO? The gay guy has future in the Air Force.... *F-15E WSO here....

Flight engineers make the aerospace vehicle work. CSOs make the mission work.

I've seen selects chuck in a 3849 while trying to land a honey AGR job. AGR job comes through, declining school becomes a 7-day option.

Shit hot people will do well anywhere. Some have come to believe they are not missing out on career, financial, or service opportunities by leaving. At the same time, they believe they will be missing out on family opportunities by staying in.

One thing that absolutely SHOULD happen is that accusers and alleged perpetrators absolutely must be separated. I'm shocked that Kris was left in-place where she had to interact with the defendant on a reoccurring basis. Unless there are extreme circumstances involved (geographically isolated units engaged in combat, etc), I can't see why keeping both parties around is a good idea. Moving both parties to not demonstrate favoritism may even be wise. Convening authorities SHOULD allow the military justice process to take its course and not demonstrate undue command influence to either side.

That's why I have y'all. I have 6969 ideas, but 6900 of them are bad. I just don't know which ones.....

Thanks bros. It's much better to get heckled by Internet memes than sink a few grand into an idea that won't work.

Totally serious. I once sat for an official photo twice within a relatively close period as I was CGOQ then applied for a special program as an O-4. The base photo shop refused to just photo-edit my rank to oak leaves. As a result, I spent a few extra hours of my life getting the photo redone. I'm interested to know if you'd use some kind of online service for that...

This. I have no idea what I formally learned in SOS. I still remember hearing the Services officer explain why he has no ability to make the club better or the missile dude telling about how absolutely horrible the climate was in the nuke world.

Updating my military photo is a pain in the ass as I promote or get some new trinket awarded to me. (yes.. I have to actually update my service photo. Maybe some of you are lucky enough not to) Would anyone find value in a service that lets you upload a photo, state what needs to be changed, and you get a new military photo back that is up-to-date? I'm thinking about starting a small business based around that concept, but I'm not sure if there's a solid need.

Congrats! Make sure you know how to keep your flight instructor certificate current. You can get screwed if your IP check ride window is not timed right or if you go to a non-flying gig and don't realize you need to keep the CFI current. There is no such thing as a mil-comp instructor recertification. There's also the BGI. If you're going to go to the FSDO to get one, you might as well get them all.

Once upon a time, there was a military position, but I don't know if it still exists.

Are there any CSO instructors there? Once upon a time, there was a slot for a CSO with a FAA CFI rating.

This is why promotions through O-5 should be done at the DT level vice the whole-of-the AF. I believe strongly that each community can select its next leaders better than a whole-of-the-AF panel.

Some other tactics: delay the PCS or get a 1-VML reclama.

Did these guys go to ANG / AFRES? In a way, I'd rather have these fine Americans producing airlift sorties for more than 20 years in a scalable and flexible way. The AF's loss is the AF's gain. My god, that's fucked up. I hope it worked out for them both in family life and professionally.

When compared to other broken bureaucracies, ours is the least dysfunctional!

My gut opinion: Senior raters have very few tools to delineate the middle of the pack. The current system is really good at highlighting rock stars, but is pretty bad at providing grainularity in the middle.

I feel like the opposite is true as well: its hard to pull above the pack if you weren't the most stellar Lt/young capt. Hopefully, you have strong platform reps in your MAJCOM/A3 (I'm assuming this is for a bomber platform). I'm currently in a staff program office job, and I see the ops community that I work for having no collective idea what they want. It's really hard to acquire when I have to guess at requirements.

I don't think the CSAF has as much power to change the AF as people think he has. Quite a bit of what we see as "bureaucratic crap" is actually the execution of some federal law. For example, awesome queep job of Unit Voting Monitor is actually the AF and DoD's implementation of The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. On top of that, the CSAF will get to go battle Congress every time he wants to erase a GO billet or move an airplane to a different base. As an example, a developmental squadron I was in had two A-10s dedicated to A-10 developmental test. To increase test efficiency, we wanted to move those airplanes to Davis Monthan where there are quite a few more aircraft in the test fleet. That move was blocked by Congress as "trying to move aircraft outside of a BRAC." My one critique is that I wish Gen Welsh would do more to shape the Air Force culture. We still have the same rusty OPR and assignment system. We're still deploying dudes into "rated-required" billets where being rated isn't actually a criteria. We're still trying to accomplish all the same manpower intensive work as if we had a force 50% bigger than we actually have.