pawnman

70%...which is not enough for me to risk it. The cost of failure is just too high.

It really makes sense when you deploy a married couple to the same place for six months. In an Army base, they'd live together. In an Air Force base, they can't set foot in each others' rooms. Where's the sense in that? Edit: I hadn't seen that they were revising the policy. If so, it's about damn time.

For your mom.

Sounds like a standard Friday night...what's the problem?

There are ways to attack these hardened targets...I'm not that concerned that we cant get through 32 stories of pure concrete.

The instructor and I differed on that point.

I'm not saying the response was proportional...but you have to have been living under a goddamned rock for the last decade to think you can make statements like this and not be detained.

SoS had one Monday...which was a normal day of classes, followed by a 1 hour powerpoint by the flight commanders. At least our flight commander had the decency to admit that you won't ever stop all suicides in the Air Force.

Practice like you fight.

I could live with the REMFing if everyone executed it with by pulling you aside, quietly having a few words, and starting and ending the conversation with "sir". In my experience, more often it's an E-6 shouting a command at an O-3..."Hey, get those sunglasses off your head!" from across the chow hall. Delivery is a big part of the problem. I think if all the enlisted folks making these corrections were as respectful as you, we wouldn't be having so much discussion about REMFs. I do believe we'd still be bitching about the reg, because you only THINK we make the rules...they come from above our paygrade too.

Exactly. The burden of proof is on the applicant to prove they weren't hired due to location, and not because they are a douche. And if you are the type to attempt to sue, you are a douche. Interesting that HRWorld thinks that is a requirement...everywhere I worked before joining the Air Force had a block for "address" on the application/interview paperwork.

Our "official" guidance is that newly-CMR dudes have a year without a duty...what they actually get is about a week.

Possibly the strangest assault case ever. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/14/justice/peru-virginia-buttocks-slashings/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Maybe instead of the Raptor he should be looking for an A-10.

Wait...is the story wrong about his height, or is it just a reading comprehension failure? 6' 8.5" is NOT half an inch shy of 7' 9". Anyone that tall is gonna make a great target on day one. Imagine how deep he has to dig his foxhole.

Interesting that our leadership professes a need for USAF heritage, while simultaneously doing everything in their power to squash it.

Seems like it might be improved with a few scratches and some urine.

Yep...they get checked once a week for the whole class.

Oddly, the RAF has a rarely enforced reg on the books that prohibits officers from shaving their mustaches.

I'd love to see this. The way it has been pitched to us is that you will still have your checklists and TOs, but the EFB will replace the enroute charts, approach plates, etc. So while you still have your checklist for handling emergencies or aircraft operations, we are no longer carrying all the FLIP that gets replaced every six weeks. This means you no longer have to pay for thousands of paper-copy enroute charts, approach plates that rarely, if ever, get used, an AP-1B and so on. On our last deployment, I heard that the Hornet guys were using iPads loaded with tactical charts, such as GRGs and the like, along with imagery for areas of interest. In the B-1, we've had laptops running Falconview for about 8 years. Tie the laptop to a GPS, and presto - moving map like some guys are discussing.

I'm torn between BSing about how much I'm learning, and putting my true feelings about two months away from the family. The cynical part of me thinks that they are making this mandatory so they have a stack of documentation proving what students have learned in an effort to keep the program from being cut.

So, I just got my "Welcome to SOS" email today. I'm really excited that one of our required activities is now keeping a diary, excuse me, journal. Apparently we are supposed to document what we are learning about leadership at SOS. I wonder if I'll fail that graded measure if I just use it to tally my booze intake for the week?

I was discussing SOS with a major in my squadron. He told me that the commandant's "welcome to SOS" speech actually included the the phrase "If you aren't the DG, you are wasting everyone's time". Seems that if everyone but the DG is wasting time (and money), SOS should be cut. No where else in the Air Force would a program that only benefits 1% of the people involved survive. If it isn't true (and I suspect it isn't), then this is a terribly demotivating statement for most of the class. Perhaps he's just trying to make everyone shoot for DG, but what the statement actually does is make people give up on day 4 when they don't get the high score on some graded measure.

"Pre-work"...oh boy, hope I don't get sent home for not having that accomplished soon enough.

Awesome that they lengthen the timeline, and remove the family rooms at the same time. Seems that they could have timed that a bit better.