pawnman

I wasn't willing to press to test. I completed ACSC online as soon as I had a line number to major, because I knew I wasn't going to get picked up in residence. Spending a few hours a week on Blackboard while I was already at work did not significantly increase my workload or impact my family time. I'm not disagreeing with the core assertion that the class isn't all that useful. I'm just saying that, based on historical data, I'm going to do all the things in my own power to get promoted to Lt Col without stepping over my bros.

I'm just glad one member of the '05 year group didn't do it. Means my odds just got a skosh better.

There's still a few of us left in the B-1, B-52, F-15E, RC-135, and AC-130 (to name a few).

Well, I'm rapidly learning that commanders don't have unlimited powers when dealing with AFPC. Had someone in my shop get orders. Tried to change the report date to January from November. Losing and gaining commander both agreed... Some chief at AFPC denied the change "because the gaining base is undermanned". Apparently the gaining commander was not a good enough judge of his own manning situation.

If I'm the DO or commander of that fighter squadron, I'd rather deal with a gear overspeed than an aircraft settling onto the runway on its fuselage. Also, everyone is saying how difficult it is or how fast it happens... Yet Lts manage to do this day in and day out, right out of UPT. I get that it may take some skill and concentration... That's why you get flight pay, bro.

Doesn't get you that awesome video of the jet screaming down the runway at 20', though.

Their jobs rely on the flight happening EVENTUALLY. Don't kid yourself that a single down day will have anything but a positive effect on the morale of the support units.

Gotta be initial eligible pilots. Take rate among B-1 WSOs was pretty high, based on anecdotal evidence in my wing.

They would be thrilled because Transpo wouldn't have to drive crews to the flight line and MDG wouldn't need a flight doc on standby

Agreed, but this was in the CAF. I fly B-1s.

I've been told that I needed to stop deploying do much because it would hurt my chances for promotion. Granted, it wasn't during my first ops tour... But we're still sending the message to young guys that the Air Force values queep more than lethality when it comes to promotion time.

Blues, leather jacket, wheel cap. Go old school.

No skeletons, but no special duties either. He was the chief of OGV and one of like 4 line dudes qualified in the glass cockpit upgrade at the time. My community is especially bad for it, because we are told we are too undermanned and too critical to do any kind of career broadening... Then we are punished for doing nothing but flying the line. Functional won't release me to go anywhere, but big Air Force is upset I've never been anywhere but in the cockpit. I'm having some real epiphanies about Catch-22.

Wow... Mine looks so different. You've stacked all the stats on a single line. My community really pushes the C-method, putting a strat at the beginning of each line if you have enough to fill the whole thing.

They won't tell you to remove the line, but they also won't tell you it's worthless. One of the guys with the most combat time in my community was the guy who got RIFed. Meanwhile, my OG/CC had about 100 combat hours... In an aircraft where the average combat sortie is 12-16 hours.

I also have combat hours and combat sorties on the PRF. It's another symptom of "you promote what you value". Mask deployments, and you'll promote people who don't deploy.

3. He neglected the most basic of multi-engine aircraft emergency procedures, destroyed a flyable aircraft, and killed an entire crew, when he could have easily brought that aircraft around the pattern at the appropriate speeds and made an appropriate landing. Hell, briefing abort criteria could have kept the plane on the ground in the first place. Hand it back to maintenance 10 minutes later and tell them to try again while you go visit the bars in Savannah.

There's always another notch.

I would care if someone said that to a woman in my squadron. And others would certainly care when you called her that at the step desk or back in the student longue.

What if it just says SQ/CC followed by X...?

That appears to be the bottom line... The box the senior rater checks is far more important than what the push line says.

Oh, the ones that cost more than a four-year degree?

This is why splitting AFSCs on promotion boards would be helpful. It prevents flyers from having to compete with guys who are sitting or graduated squadron commanders in the same year group.

Worked with someone who had to do a CDI. Basically, a 20-30 minute brief with the legal office, then they turn you loose to collect evidence.

But if we can get the initial training for those volunteers while they pay for it, seems like we could reduce or eliminate IFS for them, saving money and time in the pipeline.