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Spokane is one of the better AF locations out there.
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"social media activism" is a more accurate description. Very easy to do from the comfort of one's keyboard.
Well, according to their tax filings, Venture Humanity Inc. has received about $50k/year and has about $50k/year in expenses, so I have a hard time believing that they've raised $8m since 2001. Especially considering the McGuire event raised a whopping $597. And of course, that $597 was actually a comparative loss considering it took a couple dozen (S)NCOs and officers a couple of hours to raise it. This is why corporate philanthropy is dumb.
The event founder, Frank Baird is a "Life Coach" and he smells like an opportunist. Just check out his store:
http://walkamileinhershoes.org/Store/store.html#.VTSrdZOAngM
also this:
http://walkamileinhershoes.org/Walk_Event_Experience/signingin.html#.VTSueZOAngM
We recommend you provide Official Walk Shoes for your men.These shoes were designed specifically for Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® and insure that men will have a very different experience from walking in their own comfortable every day shoes.. They will not have this experience it in other shoes, shoes without heals, flip flops, etc. By wearing Official Walk Shoes, men will also feel part of the international community of men walking in these shoes all around the world. We recommend you have a Registration Fee that helps you cover the costs of Walk Shoes and Merchandise. You may charge this fee to everyone or only to men intending to Walk in official Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® red high-heels. More details on funding your Walk Event can be found here.
Have a Sign-In table where men can register to Walk and pay the registration fee or submit proof that they've already registered online. Provide the men with one pair of shoes to use for the duration of the Walk. You can hold their shoes for their convenience and as collateral until the end of the Walk when they return their Official Walk Shoes. You can use these shoes again for another Walk Event or lend, rent, or sell these shoes to another Walk Organizer for their Walk Event.
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Because high heels symbolize all rape victims...
Most participants chose to walk at a regular pace while other, more 'hardcore,' participants chose to run the entire way in two-inch heels, like first-place finisher Maj. Josh Schaad.
great, high heel 5Ks coming to a SAPR down day near you. /s
I remember the days when everything was about warfighting. How times have changed...
http://www.jointbasemdl.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123343138
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I wonder if Army CID will verify the below claims from 2010.
A captured American soldier is training Taliban fighters bomb-making and ambush skills, according to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials.
Private Bowe Bergdahl disappeared in June 2009 while based in eastern Afghanistan and is thought to be the only U.S. serviceman in captivity.
The 24-year-old has converted to Islam and now has the Muslim name Abdullah, one of his captors told The Sunday Times.
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Wow... This is just plain sad.
Wrong study guides sent for Course 15http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2014/12/08/wrong-study-guides-sent-course/20082973/
Students had been told to use the online materials, but then, because of the system error, received the hard-copy books in the mail — leading to the tech sergeant's confusion.
However, Geidner said, the center does not plan to reverse the test scores or give airmen who failed because of this particular issue a pass.
"I see the fact that there is some culpability on our part because the system generated a package to a student, but there's also culpability on the student's part as well," Geidner said in a Dec. 3 interview with Air Force Times. "We would have to call somebody 'good' who did not pass a test, or did not study the appropriate material and take the appropriate test when they were notified of the proper materials, so ... we'd be asking ourselves to pass somebody who didn't pass the course — that's something that we wouldn't do."
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From experience in the non-rated ops world, the "successful" careerists that climbed the ladder by planning parties are marginal at their real job. Many of them are now in leadership roles (Flt/Sq/Staff lvls) and are supposed to be considered SMEs because they checked a box from a certain assignment in the past (fake breadth of experience). Their #1 strats from previous assignments are probably the results of volunteer work, PME, and AAD. I might trust these people to "manage" a small unit but I would not rely on them if I needed to plan or a support a no-kidding mission. Their lack of real job knowledge at the tactical, operational and strategic level is scary. Also since they lacked real job knowledge, they are unable to mentor, guide, and train the junior Airmen in their shop except to tell them to check the boxes and volunteer like they once did. So this cycle keeps going and eventually the career field ends up with mostly careerists and not so many real experts.
Yes I agree we want our leaders to be good at admin and job skills, but right now the balance is way out of whack.
I personally would rather follow a senior leader who has been there and done that during an operation then someone who mostly excels at managing.
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What about subsequent looks for a school slot. What's that based on?
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This isn't how it works at all...i've served as a lacky shuffling folders on the board. It's not separated into Dp/P piles at all. The 2 computer screens give you lots of time to read the records. The O6's on the board read read and read some more...it's just different HOW and WHAT they focus their reading on. Some dudes might focus on this while others that...combat hours, vs flunked out of UPT, vs DG at SOS...different folks focus differently....don't forget you have a room full of 30+ O-6s representing the entire air force - so 15% women, 8% asian, 75% line, 47 % pilot, etc etc.....if you don't get a fair shake, then it just wasn't meant to be.
Thanks for the explanation. The DP/P piles method is what is advertised to the CGOs when paper records were still around. This method is probably still being taught at SOS during the PRF exercise. Even with the computerized scoring system, SOS and some O-6s want you to believe that the reviewers don't have the time to review each package in-depth, and that most people rely on the DPs/strats/DGs in order to get thru all the packages within the allotted time.
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Question for the folks who have served on the promotion board.
With the new computerized process of reviewing and scoring records, do you have more/enough time to review each person's documents and look for the whole person concept and job performance history? Or is still the method of DP/P piles, and then look for strats/DGs to score the Ps? The old school folks are always saying the reviewers don't have the time to review the documents in depth, DPs/strats/DGs are pretty much what they rely on to score.
Thanks.
Btw, the old mindset of box checking is alive and well in the FGO world (especially non-rated ops/support AFSCs). Until those folks are gone, I don't expect much change to the stratification process.
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List of names that needs to be reviewed and approved by the congress. (I think)
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If you get picked up then expect twice-a-week online sessions with an instructor to practice the language. There will be TDY money for you to get language immersion. You will have to stay current with DLPT. After a year of language training and a current DLPT will qualify you for SEI rating. The online language training may be substituted with a language immersion TDY.
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It goes back to Chuck's earlier comment about nothing has changed.
So in-res PME will likely be an even larger discriminator now. Welcome to the new era... Same as the old.
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Think about the next step... IDE/SDE. In-res will now be an even larger discriminator for the next highest grade, IMHO. But for the bump to major, yeah, it's exactly as you describe it - a non-factor really.
Chuck
Yes IDE/SDE in-res are going to be huge, but the real question is how will an officer be evaluated for IDE/SDE vector/push?
Gen Welsh's intent is to get rid of the box-checking mentality (AAD, SOS in-res) and evaluate/promote junior officers based on performance. Promotion selection process has changed, the mid-level dudes/dudettes need to evaluate officers based on job performance instead of new box-checking criteria (such as volunteer, PT history) or this is a wasted effort.
My 2 cents.
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A new era for the promotion process is here. Gen Welsh made it happen and the O-6s/O-5s are in the process of getting educated on the new requirements. SOS source and timing are now masked for selection board.
Go to MYPERS and look up PSDM 14-70 - CY14D Colonel Nurse Corps (NC) P0614D and CY14C Major Line of Air Force (LAF) P0414C Central Selection Board (CSB).
There is also a PPT floating around on some of the changes.
"Beginning with boards convening 1 Dec 14 or later, Academic Education will be masked for all Line of the Air Force (LAF) Major and Lt Colonel Boards."
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1-2 months ago secdef directed each service to come up with a plan to cut down on alcohol incidents and sexual assaults. This is lining up nicely with the Sept deadline. its just like the hi-vis rxns for sexual assault prevention activities.
Duicon anyone?
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Speechless...
What happens when one of these "advisers" gets shot at, or god forbid, is KIA? Would their mission be considered as combat then?
The grunts deserve more respect than this.
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Got this from a friend today, posting here as a follow up about my PT score comments in the Master's degree thread.
I laughed when I saw the message.
Requesting a Project Officer to represent the ## Wing during the 2014 Combined Federal Campaign. Please also submit a SURF and PT score sheet to ###### by COB ## ### ##.
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No one is saying obtaining an advanced degree is a bad thing, but checking boxes (careerism) is a bad thing.
Beating a dead horse ---> The problem is "military leadership" advancement opportunities are/were largely based on junior officers' degree completion date regardless of degree program and academic institution. A degree completed early shows AF loyalty to the "leaders" and you are worthy of O-6 and the 20 yr retirement. This adds nothing to the mission and takes time from your family if you are married. This also takes time away from job focus/mission at a time when the junior officers need job experience/proficiency and with reduced manning/budget. (now it seems like we are just replacing the master degree box w/ volunteering and PT scores)
AAD is still required for certain AF jobs (TPS/RAS/ROTC) so go get that degree if you want to be competitive for those opportunities, but Gen Welsh's message is that you should not need a useless degree to make O-4.
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This really happens?
Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
Yes.
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Kudos to Gen Welsh for making it happen.
Agree that it needs to be masked in the SURF or it's pointless.
W/ the DoD-wide downsizing, let's get rid of the excessive "volunteer" opportunities as part of the rack/stack process. It's silly that we need to have a "selected winner" to coordinate a non-mission related event.
I also propose no CGO squadron exec positions (maybe even wings and groups). You are telling me the CC can't function with only DO/ADOs/secretary?
Speaking of MAF CCs... I get the need for a Ribbon chart, but PT score history for an initial meeting w/ the Commander? Really?
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Well that wasn't very nice of Putin...
Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coasthttp://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-bombers-fly-within-50-miles-of-california-coast/
Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.
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There are so many stories from ex-coworkers, former officer students, and former enlisted students... nothing online as far as I can tell (except for that one comment above).
I've seen many 14Ns get drunk with power as soon as they are put in some kind of a leadership role. These 2 are just a couple of more well known examples.
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Just saw this little nugget from TC's take on the firing. I'm surprised the whole story has not made it to AF Times...
Anonymous says:
It didn’t get any better with Rolirad or DQ. Rolirad would have her favorite students and she is still in the Air Force. DQ just slept with tons of the students. It makes me sick that nothing happened to them and Perry lost command.
AFPAK Hands
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Big Blue simply does not care about properly developing and maintaining its Pol-Mil capabilities.
1. No FAO track (as opposed to USN/USA)
2. RAS/PAS must return to original AFSC or risk getting passed over
3. No APAC HANDS (as opposed to USN/USA), another CJCS-directed program, because we have RAS/PAS already (bogus reason)
4. Lack of communication/coordination between LEAP/AFCLC and SAF/IA
AFPAK HANDS are supposed to be on the O-6 track, but there stories of them being out-stratted by some AF GO's exec/aide.