pawnman

We should probably stop talking about regime change as long as our primary SEAD tactic is State Department diplomats.

Oh, I have no aspirations to be CSAF...hell, even SQ/CC is likely out of reach, unless I end up as the FSS/CC or something. No, my question is that, with all the 11Ms currently filling 11F billets about to be pulled back to their cockpits/staff jobs within their own MAJCOM, why would ACC not bridge that gap with 12F/12Bs who have been there, done that, and have a pretty good grasp on daily flying operations and weapon employment? Although TnkrToad hit the high points...we already don't have enough 12Fs to fill cockpits, hence the bonus, and 12Bs aren't much better, with just enough to fill cockpits. Can't say I'm looking forward to doing extra work for zero credit. I keep hearing leadership tell us that we won't be able to keep doing everything with our lack of resources...but I have yet to hear a task that I'm allowed to drop due to my lack of resources.

Meh. How is this different from the last decade?

Is that a necessary skill at a MAJCOM headquarters? That's my point...WSOs can be mission leads, they act as flight commanders, shop chiefs, execs, directors of staff, even squadron and group commanders within the wings that ACC has control over. What special knowledge does the stick-and-rudder skills impart when it comes to staff jobs?

On the other hand, the more that gets pushed from the MAJCOM to the Wing, the more control the WG/CC has over mission execution. In theory, anyway. Just curious, how does 12F/12B manning look? I know the 12Fs were undermanned, hence the bonus for them...but 12Bs were part of the last RIF (we lost three at my wing alone). What specific knowledge does an 11F/11B have that a 12F/12B doesn't have, from a functional perspective?

You mean those staff jobs might open up in ACC to more than the top 20% plus 1 random dude from the entire MAJCOM?

The problem is, it's now gotten to the point where even mechanical failures end up with some kind of human factor as a note, causal or otherwise. "Well, it looks like the #3 engine suffered a catastrophic failure...but the copilot said he had only gotten 5 hours of sleep the night before, so that may be a contributing factor as well..."

Gotta get that community involvement bullet before quarterly awards packages go final.

Forfeit $4000 in pay. So...one retirement check? Now ask yourselves...what would have happened to a captain or SSgt caught doing the same thing? Allowed to retire? Honorable discharge? Still on active duty?

Not based on the people I've seen recognized and promoted, versus the people I've seen RIF'd or passed over.

We lost three 12Bs, including an evaluator with 6 deployments. This in an ops group that struggles to fill all the 12B billets.

Making the softer officers cry makes it all worthwhile, though.

Bingo. I'm already doing this crap four times a year...the three day pass would be a step up.

Mother Jones is a left-leaning publication, but this was a good read: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/air-force-missile-wing-minuteman-iii-nuclear-weapons-burnout

But you can't get on the fast track with that follow-on staff position unless you go to a school in residence!

Operation Enduring Clusterfuck is in full swing.

Well, it was a FB post he started referencing the Occupy Wall Street thread from three years ago, and how every person who said we should drop weapons on them was violating their oath.

Apparently he's FB friends with one of the guys I went to SOS with. Today I've been called treasonous and a worthless PoS for saying people who want to join ISIS should just be allowed to go, we'll get them later.

PYB once called me an oath-breaking piece of shit because I expressed my personal opinion that Americans who join ISIS get what they deserve when we drop a JDAM on them. This was in his "real" persona, on Facebook.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/isis-seizes-weapons-meant-kurdish-fighters-u-s-air-drop-article-1.1981899 I knew it was sure-fire strategy.

I do wonder if that is a big part of the drop-off. I used to get on the site from work fairly regularly, then the comm Nazis blocked the log-in page. Now I can only view what others have written.

Unfortunately, if those droplets hit a surface, then the virus can survive on that surface, albeit for a limited amount of time. Now put that surface somewhere thousands of people will come into contact with it...like, say, an airplane? Like I said, I'm not panicking, but I am slowly inching my level of concern upwards.

Including the military folks deployed to Africa to help?

Unless you happen to live near Dallas...or maybe share a base with a unit tasked to West Africa. I'm not panicking...but I have elevated my ebola response from "passing interest" to "mild concern". I may even elevate to "moderate alarm" when folks start rotating back home from Africa.

No idea. Honestly, by the time most of our guys graduate the FTU, we've beaten anything other than mild, friendly rivalry out of them. Without the pilots, the WSOs have a $283 million doorstop. Without the WSOs, the pilots may as well be flying a Learjet...pilots can't drop weapons, see the radar, employ the jammers, or even make updates to the navigation system.