war007afa

We draw from an all-volunteer force. Unless you can show me statistically where MEPS has made a habit of turning people away due to their skin color, religion, or sex (wherein we'd definitely have a problem), tell me where the Air Force is culpable in recruiting only a certain demographic. There may be multiple cultural norms or perceived perks in place which made military service much more palatable to one ethnicity or another, but these are all individuals deciding to sign on the line. If we go to a draft and specifically target minorities under the guise of creating a more diverse force, well, good luck with that optic. The minute we start recruiting specifically in the mindset of giving preferential treatment towards ANY gender, race, religion, background, education, creed, etc., we're no worse than the days before segregation, even if the intent of this is to "diversify our force". The same holds true if the service is showing anyone the door based on an attempt at shaping the force towards some sort of quota. At the end of the day, service, promotion, and retention should all be based on merit and capacity to hack the mission. Strip away any indicators on all records as to where a person comes from and let their bullets do the talking.

I’ve always preferred “0” or “Half my shit” for the preferred scale...

Understood. Some guys take more time to teach and vary in air sense. I ask again: why does that guy need a waiver based on number of hours alone? The syllabus (and from the sounds of it, the instructors) is built around either product showing up to PIT.

How is an hours waiver even a thing? Doesn’t the community train IPs with exactly ZERO hours outside of the training pipeline? Seriously. The things we do to ourselves.

You should see the AAF helicopter guys do this. Impressive to see the "after" photos...

For what it's worth, the requirement is for the Non-A number, not necessarily the actual letter, for DTS purposes...

2 is armor. Something about strafing that tends to attract 7.62...

You sure you’re not looking for the U-28 unit?

So as the board results slide further right, the risk of accountability dates happening before promotion announcements becomes a definite possibility. You'd think we do this promotion board thing a few times a year or something and would establish some sort of repeatable process. If we can’t even get the simple things done like pushing out results, how are we as a service supposed to trust that the hard part like selecting promotees is done right?

So using Air Force logic, one of you is expendable and should expect your 365 or pass over shortly.

Am I the only one anxiously awaiting this story? 🍿

Round 2 sans PRFs for O-4 board... https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1613364/major-laf-promotion-board-scheduled-for-december/

In the most Constitutionally-appropriate answer, likely referencing any Amendment between 4 and 6.

We appear to be in violent agreement. Initially when our guys went out in the ABU, they were targeted more often because of it. Didn’t take long to quit doing that. You mean like the guy who literally said the exact same thing as you did in your argument above?

Actually, the ABU was part of the struggle in Iraq/Afghanistan. Insurgents routinely targeted the dudes in the “different” uniform first because they had learned who was talking to aircraft. But that has nothing to do with the change in service dress uniform which *might* happen “eventually”.

Email sent from COMAFPC to organizations stated current take rate for initial eligible pilots was sub-27%. So there’s that...

It’s 101 degrees and 30 knot winds outside right now present location. I’m damn glad I’m able to take off my top. I also have an option to wear a sweet ass fire retardant combat shirt that breathes. The bag will always have a place in my heart, but I’m digging the improved QoL associated with the two-piece. I equate to loving a sport bike but sitting on a Harley for the first time. Trust me when I say you won’t look back. Also, for the ejection seat argument, how hard is it to get suspenders or some other tech solution to enable the swap? And don’t fast pants do most of the work retaining the bottom part of the garment anyway?

No way it came off an aircraft in flight. Way too intact and minimal damage to the ground. Bet it fell off a truck.

“RIFLE”

Number I just saw via a mass email stated around 23% with a quick window closure on the horizon. Bets on updates PSDM offering more time?

So, Duck, does your contact happen to know what the deal is with the O-5 board timeline? Are we looking at another 6 months?

Well, it’s pretty hard to keep doctors around, so we had better find a way to retain that talent and experience. The Air Force has to be cautious with these kinds of things. Imagine an Air Force without doctors! Plus all of that specialized training and licensing, along with continually making life or death decisions... And yet here we are, 11Xs.

This. Had a few guys in the gunpig community successfully press to test this.