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The SpaceX suits are completely for show. They can’t turn their helmets, for one, so they can’t look sideways, which is useless in an airplane. The suits are designed to be strapped into a rocket where you stare forward and watch the touch screens telling you everything is ok for a 20 minute flight. There’s no parachute harness or LPUs, which would all go over the top of this suit. I don’t know if this helmet and suit combo would survive a rapid d from sea level to a near vacuum, but it sure doesn’t look like it and I bet they never tried.

There’s a whole lot of people out there who evangelize about the life decisions they made, which often seems to be rooted in insecurity about said decisions. The “Bro why would anybody want to be in the Air Force,” guys are almost as bad as the blue Kool Aid drinkers that scoffed at the guys who constantly deployed and got no strats. The most opinionated on both sides just seem to be fishing for reinforcement from the crowd. It never comes across as understanding of a different guy’s perspective, and it certainly isn’t humble. At the end of your life, the amount of money you have doesn’t really matter as long as your family is safe and secure, just as your personal list of military accomplishments will seem pretty unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

The Instagrams and Pilot Network FB page got awfully quiet in March 2020, now they’re back to scoffing at anyone staying on AD. Short memories.

The old saying goes that you build credibility in teaspoons and lose it in buckets. I’ve run across Minihan a few times, seems like a good dude. But he has a lot of work to do to reverse the enduring culture built by the likes of Johns and Allardice.

Man I wish LM had the ability to animate stuff like that for systems academics. But they’d charge a billion dollars and just subcontract this guy to do it.

Fuck that guy! I saw some of the same shit happen with dudes that were never around in front of the boss because they were deployed and TDY constantly. You did the right thing and you should be proud of that work. Fuck those guys, too! But I’m guessing that was a MAF unit, and yeah that’s different because the whole culture is eaten through with queep cancer.

I also know some warrants - in the guard no less - and I’m not sure what extra bullshit a commissioned officer would have. They still have a training shop, Stan/eval shop, etc. It’s not like they show up, fly, and go home; they still have to run their own squadron like anybody else. To be completely honest, all the extraneous bullshit duties in the AF (CFC, voting, awards/devs, volunteering, UFPM/PTL) were always demanded by the enlisted leadership; the officers never wanted anything to do with it. Officers should focus on flying, training, tactics, and the future direction of all of it.

A bachelor’s degree isn’t required for the technical operation of a jet on the day of execution. Back when I was a crew aircraft guy, I was pretty sure a reasonably competent flight engineer could’ve chair flown the whole operation in his mind, so all that’s left is to teach him how to land and do AR. For more complex tactical jets, well many NATO nations seem to get by with 20 year old non-bachelors pilots, though their education system is different. Things begin to fall apart when you move farther left of execution and things get less “technical operator” and more “leadership and coordination.” Plenty of enlisted folks help with mission planning and design, but they’re not leading MPCs and deciding how we’re employing billions of dollars worth of jets in peacetime or how we’ll win or lose in wartime. Nor - when you look even farther left in the timeline - are they responsible for the organizing/training/equipping part where we decide how the next war will be fought and what capabilities we need to buy, test, and develop. Officers do that, and those officers must have tactical and technical street cred from the beginning to end of their careers. Should every CSAF know how to tactically kill people and also know what it’s like to almost be killed by you own jet? Absolutely. Absofuckinglutely. BL: Are there enlisted dudes that are capable of being trained to fly the hell out of the jet? Yes! But the mistake is keeping them enlisted (or making them warrants) rather than doing the right thing and paying them more by commissioning them. As for the college part - yes, it expands your thinking well beyond being a technical operator, which is the critical requirement for the left of execution stuff above.

Does congress have to approve reenlistment bonuses and other career pays?

Seems like some pretty low scores. Are we hiring dummies

The phone numbers listed are their office phones, which is really only a punishment for base comm airmen when they have to change them all. Names…well at some level it’s ok to call out an officer by name. 0-6 and above, yes. Publicly calling out a captain by name should only be done in cases of extreme need…

In the bar?

The squadron bar is kinda like a social media platform. You say something dumb enough in the bar and you’ll get shouted down by the bros. Keep saying dumb shit, and they’ll change the door code and not let you back in. If the Bobs who own the bar decide not to change the door code and keep letting the clown talk, the bros will eventually leave and nobody likes the bar anymore. Either way, the Wing Commander isn’t coming to arrest you for just being a douche in the bar.

I’m sure the threat of SCODs is what’s driving Putin’s decision to retrograde troops from the Ukrainian border.

Logically, this should end all annual awards, right? CGO OTY is the dude with the highest strat, done. No 1206 required, no bullshit boards.

Nah, idiots are idiots. This is one that thinks he is cool, but what’s way worse is that people with the ability to manipulate the minds of millions are feeding off of an idiot’s actions in one direction or the other. Narcissistic douchebags and the people they influence divide America, nothing else. They shouldn’t be engaged.

If old things still make sense, keep doing them, if new things make sense, do them instead. The Air Force would be a lot better off if the understood that.

That dude is a total douchebag, no different than the people who would yell shit at Trump. Disagree vehemently, ask hard questions at Town Halls, sure, but when you’re talking directly to the President of the United States, don’t be an ass.

Only acceptable sig block

Not joking. Available on your phone, good for CUI without stupid certificates, let’s you actually coordinate on something rather than sending fucking emails back and forth. No read receipts, no masturbatory sig blocks, ack with an emoji, chaff can be deleted, attachments don’t have to be forwarded to the next guy, it doesn’t take an hour for old messages to download if you haven’t logged on to a computer in a while. Also you don’t have to log in to a stupid Air Force computer to use it, but you can if you want to punish yourself or are in a vault. Imagine baseops.net threads were just a bunch of emails instead, that’s how dumb we are.

But seriously, boomer email chaff like this is why everyone should be using Mattermost instead of NIPR email.

There isn’t one. V/r, - Clown Penis Very Respectfully, JOHN A. BELUSHI, Maj (He/Him/Xis), USAF (USAFA ‘08 — Richter!) 69th Tactical Air Support Squadron Assistant Operations Officer (“Go War Cows!”) 18392 Tyndall Street, Building 39104 Curtis-Wright AFB, Ohio 49201 Commercial: (702) 690-1110 STE: (702) 690-1110 DSN: 302-690-1110 SVOIP: 690-2019 TSVOIP: 555-1234 Personal Cell: (719) xxx-xxxx Personal Email: cowboys4lyfe1987@boomershit.com NIPR Air Force E-mail: john.belushi@us.af.mil DOD E-mail: john.a.belushi.42@mail.mil SIPR E-mail: john.a.belushi.37.mil@secret.com JWICS E-mail: john.belushi@doublesecret.com SOYOUKNOWIMCOOL E-mail: john.belishi@triplesecret.com “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Herodotus, 69 BC 69 TASS - Best in the West! (c) __|__ \___/ | | | | _|_|______________ /|\ */ | \* / -+- \ ---o--(_)--o--- / 6 " 9 \ */ | \* / | \ 1Q 2021 Ops Gp Sijan Nominee 2Q 2020 Wg NCO/Qtr 2018 Wg Softball Runner Up 2017 Wg Key Spouse Nominee External Link Disclaimer Policy The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the Defense Media Activity – Fort Meade, MD, the United States Air Force, or the Department of Defense, of the external Web site, or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities such as military exchanges and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) sites, the United States Air Force does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations or the privacy and user policies of these locations. Such links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of the Web site. References to non-federal entities do not constitute or imply Department of Defense or Air Force endorsement of any company or organization. Privacy Act Statement If you choose to provide us with personal information - like filling out a Contact Us form with e-mail and/or postal addresses - we only use that information to respond to your message or request. We will only share the information you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. We never create individual profiles or give it to any private organizations. AF.mil never collects information for commercial marketing. While you must provide an e-mail address or postal address for a response other than those generated automatically in response to questions or comments that you may submit, we recommend that you NOT include any other personal information, especially Social Security numbers. The Social Security Administration offers additional guidance on sharing your Social Security number.

Tim Dorsey, I hope you and your fellow executives burn in hell.

Amazing that an airman can be prosecuted for improper courier procedures or for wearing a Fitbit into a vault while a person deemed important enough can basically live in a state of constant spillage.

“Never talk to the media” is an old Rainman rule that has stuck with me. An easy rule to remember since I get a new reminder of why every month. Widman was in my OTS class. Universally panned, narcissistic, loud, humorless, mean, prideful, and power-hungry. I think I got them all. Oh, and zero chill.