Duck

You really have to watch out for those big foam shooting nerf guns, really look like AKs and ARs these days. Especially the ones painted light blue and red. Sarcasm obviously.

Oh wow. Didn’t hear about that one.

Are you referencing the incident where someone wrote “go home n*gger” on a Cadet’s white board outside his room? Or did something else happen?

Yep. Exactly! Funny how money just made the outrage of black oppression magically disappear.

It looks like most of the teams are giving up the protest too. I’m wondering if this had anything to do with the outrage from the fans...?

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It seems to me to be just another rogue GS-6 at AETC HQ.

Question for the masses. I was just told that my WG/CC cannot give me a DNP because I have no negative quality indicators. This was told to the Wing Exec by some civilian chick at AETC HQ who deals with promotions. Is it true that our own O-6 Wing Commanders are neutered to the point that they can’t decide for themselves which box to check on a PRF unless a civilian at higher HQ gives them the green light or is this a load of $hit? Thanks bros.

You all should go look at what Ha Ha Clinton-Dix said as well as Dak Prescott. Two outstanding examples of guys who appreciate the position they are in.

When I heard some douche was yelling at people for this, it made me start going out of my way to walk on any grass I could find. Glad to finally put a name with my rebellion!

Stay-at-home, trophy husband. That’s my plan. We will see what my wife says.

You will end up completely finishing systems in about 2 weeks during Phase I. It goes fast. Like really fast. You won’t be expected to know boldface/ops limits until you hit Phase II (T-6 flightline) around a month into UPT. You can try to find the most up to date T-6 Boldface/Ops Limits before you get down there, but outside of that, there’s really no amount of studying that’s gonna help or get you ahead. Definitely know them cold, verbatim, commas and all by Phase II/Day 1 and make sure the rest of your class does too. It will get you out of blues and into flight suits. Once you get your pubs, you can start making your way through the contact portion of the 11-248 and keep your nose in the -1. I would also focus on the 11-2T-6 v3, especially Laughlin’s Sup to the v3. Be prepared to feel overwhelmed, but just keep taking bites out of the elephant. Focused studying is way better than just sitting down and trying to read the entirety of the mountain of pubs. Let me know if you have any questions! Best of luck!

Hopefully C-17s get a waiver from the waiver, otherwise we will look forward to more gear up landings at the wrong airfield.

Give it about 3 years and they will try it again.

I've had a ton of people PM me telling me they were thinking of doing the same thing. Most of the guys I know APZ write letters to make sure they don't get promoted 1 Above. Bottom line, who knows? Probably more than we think.

I'm thinking this is a way to keep pilots from requesting to be passed over. That's what my Commander thinks. Too many people wrote letters.

I actually think this is a great idea for pilots. In fact I would argue for it to be 100% to Lt Col and even promote separately and at a faster rate than the rest of the AF. The rollout was completely botched, yet again by Big Blue. The problem that I see is two fold. First, this is being portrayed as a knee jerk reaction with very little planning for thought behind it. No where do I see this is going to be permanent, which means it will be business as usual for all the queep that goes into normal promotions. This is simply a backdoor stoploss for O-3s. I am wondering if a lot of guys wrote the board last time requesting to be passed over hence the surprisingly low O-3 pilots selected for O-4.

Valid criticism. I am just tired of getting the rug pulled out from under me and my family, one failed AF personnel policy at a time. I have not had it the worst at all by a long shot, but enough that me and my family went to lengths to get passed over on the very first O-4 board I had. Once I get out, I can promise to never post on here again.

Standard AF. Fire, Aim, Ready.

Lol no. I'll drop the cynicism as soon as the AF starts living up to their end of the bargain. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

I hope you're right. I seriously hate you right now. Lol

Have ya checked the Palace Chase webpage on mypers lately? I think most pilots are looking for an early out from the 10 year sentence.

The only people I see this really screws are guys who are on their second look for this board. If they promote all the APZers it really fvcks them when they were making plans to separate/go to the Guard/provide for their family, etc. Hopefully they still take letters to the board in consideration.

They will find some other BS to fill your time. Can't have anyone working less than a 60 hour week. We want the taxpayers to get their money's worth.

It says there is more info on mypers, yet the "link" is not really a link and mypers is silent on the issue last I checked. Great job rolling this pile of $hit out AF.

Yeah, this totally throws a wrench in my plans. From what I know they didn't distinguish between APZ and IPZ in the memo passed around. I still submitted my letter, but am a little worried to say the least.