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Ok, then the Brits suck at securing an LZ. Most semi-prep LZs in Afghanistan are outside the fence, but a team always secures the LZ prior to arrival and if you missed a fucking IED buried in the runway you are an idiot. I have watched the army and the marines secure LZs and this is one of the things they look for. Guess that why the story seemed ridiculous to me, because it is.
All I hear is that you think crow tastes like chicken and you meant to eat it.
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The cut line to be selected BPZ is way, way higher than the cut line to get school, so BPZers are always school selects by default.
But what they are saying is that someone a year or 2 younger is not just better than their peers, but better than dudes senior to them. At least at the Maj board, the school slots are competed among peers.
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Anyone know how to get of the EFMP? Ex-wife had the boy diagnosed and TriCare docs I've talked to since have said negative, just a speech delay. I've spoken to the reps at a couple locations and they all said it was "impossible".
A letter from your primary family doc is the golden ticket to move the buerocratic burocratic bwerocratic buereocratic crap, paper pushing weenie machine (PPWM) and disenroll.
Years ago I was in EFMP. And while it sounds great in principle, it is woefully insufficient in many areas. The only thing it does is keep you from PCSing to a place where care may not be available, in the AF's view, not yours. So if you've got a sweet assignment to someplace, say Hawaii, and you got everything lined up for the proper docs and specialties, the EFMP PPWM can cancel it.
After many frustrations with a lack of known resources, the wife gathered quite a list of people, places, websites, orgs, etc. She tried giving it to the EFMP office and they stiff armed saying they couldn't accept, long line of bullshit, and said to give to Family Support. They did the same. We grew beyond the abilities of the EFMP program and decided to get out. They held up my assignment and it was easier to disenroll than to make them realize we had it figured out and didn't need them. On a side note, the Marines have the model program. The PCS piece is still there, but they actually help families with resources, orgs, facilities, programs, etc.
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http://www.curacaoch...777-approached/
This got me thinking, and I'm not trying to put any blame on any of the airplanes holding short, but how out-of-whack would it be for one of the jet on the ground to key up the mic and give a "On final go around!" call? Would the plane on final even go around? All those Mk 1 eyeballs on the ground have enough experience to see an unsafe situation developing...
If they were watching. Didn't plane holding short state they needed a few more minutes from the tower audio? I'm guessing that they were doing their own thing to get ready to go, not watching another of a thousand landings.
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Wire it for sound and video, then leave.
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P: Blinded by the light...
CP: Wrapped up like a dusche...
P: Its not dusche as in dusche bag, its duce.
CP: Wrapped up like a duce? WTF does that mean?
P: Its not wrapped up, its revved up. So why would wrapped up like a dusche mean anything?
CP: Some people get all wrapped up in their duschery, oh and your 30 knots slow.
P: 30 knots slow? Is that some sort of bar drinking pilot song?
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^^ Yeah, what Moose just said.
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PME on Leadership
edit: fixin linky
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Just an observation and a couple of questions...
It seems like there are about 15-20 guys on this thread that are really fed up with the Air Force personnel system and want to do something about it. That is admirable.
As pointed out, there's nothing you can currently do from your position, except point out the flaws to your leadership and maybe post some thoughts in this (or similar) forums. Again, admirable as long as it's not whining.
Therefore, if you really want to change the system, yet you can't from your current position, why not:
1) Aspire to leadership;
2) Do what the current system requires of you to become a Commander; and
3) Do your best to implement your agenda once you are a Squadron Commander or above?
Many excuses are bound to fly from these suggestions. I'm sure the biggest one from folks like Rusty will be, "GC, I've served with Squadron, Group, and Wing Commanders, and trust me, they have no ability to make changes." Or some of you may quote Tony Carr (great dude) and say, "GC, if Tony couldn't implement change and left, what shot do I have?" Well, I'll come back at you with some of the logic several of you have used against Liquid. Your Commanders in the past, to include Tony, hit a wall with their specific leadership. When you are in Command someday, who's to say that you won't have the exact leadership above you to hear your voice and implement change? You say to Liquid that times were different when he came up in the AF. True. But Commanders might be different in the future from what they are right now. Same logic.
Young officers (especially Captains; Rusty, you're old, it's probably too late for you, my friend), if you feel so strongly that you have a better way, why not do what today's system requires of you in order to become a Commander and have a shot at change. Who knows- you may be hitting your head against a wall when you're a CC. Then again, you may have the perfect leadership team above you to make a difference in your subordinates' lives. I guarantee you, if you're still in the Air Force around the 17 year point, and some doofus is your Squadron Commander, and he has amazing leadership above him that is open to instituting change, you're going to wish you'd done your AAD and PME back when you were a Captain, however distasteful, in order to be in his position and make a difference.
Young guys reading this thread- I know you're out there lurking in the shadows- everything Rusty, Champ, Animal, Vetter, Liquid, etc are saying about be the best you can be at your primary job above all else is absolutely correct. Don't even bother trying if you're not putting the mission first (alongside your family). But don't close doors later in your career to buck the system now; close those doors in a decade or so, when you're bucking the system as a Squadron/Group/Wing Commander, standing up unequivocally for what you think is best for the mission and your Airmen.
Thoughts?
The Sq/CC battlefield is littered with tons of balls smashed flat by hammers. I use the analogy because I've seen over and over again what happens to Sq/CCs that fight the good fight. I've shared many a beer while discussing the frustrations.
Maybe you guys were blessed with bosses that let you run your units and stayed out of your business. Maybe you had CCs above you that didn't micromanage everything. Maybe you were able to truely promote your best people regardless of checked boxes, you know, got them to SOS, DPs, School slots, awards, etc. Or maybe you had to make some of your people sign up for SOS so that the CCs above you would listen to you that Bob was the best and needed to go next.
Before I go, I share a small story of one of those "amazing" leaders about the Sq level. Over beer one day, he talked about a promotion board he sat on. He was talking about scoring, the process, etc. He said that he would give extra to guys that checked the PME box the soonest. I rebutted that the system gamers know this and play that to their advantage. Just because someone signed up for PME and got it done ASAP doesn't make them a better leader. He didn't agree. Amazing leadership.
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But a cat, that you can leave for days at time.
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It doesn't matter how many hours in the specific plane. Approach airspeed must still be flown to keep the plane in the sky. Unless he was flying an F-777, I'm confident there was another pilot in the seat that should have intervened.
Just another reminder that this is a very serious job and if you're not on top of your game, bad shit can happen.
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Except for the fact that 11-202V2 says the Evaluator's judgment is the final grade. I've personally seen an EP tell a Sq/CC that he wasn't changing the grade for check ride when the Sq/CC disagreed with him on the grade.
And I've seen the opposite when the EP was shown as being a gigantic douche. See, we both win. Woooohooo!
JFC,
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PS: as for callsigns, I've heard a few from the ladies that made me blush and they seemed damned proud of them too (I asked).
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Just wondering,
How is calling a squadron mate a bitch for asking you to not tell a graphic story of a one-night-stand blowjob in front of her going to make you keep that warrior edge? Or then Bro tells that story of being asked to stop to the ADO who Q3'd said female for not having a checklist in hand, CC said he wouldn't have done it, but didn't change anything. This ADO also determines the deployment assignments. The same guy who said females who deployed together previously can't deploy together anymore since they need experience on different crews. However, Bros get to go with their buds whenever they'd like.
Do want advice or do you all have a plan all figured out?
On a side note, when CCs see bullshit Q2s or Q3s, they often don't point blank make the evaluator change the score. However, threatening to take away the Q code of said evaluator for dumbass grades usually fixes the problem. Or it could be that the flight sucked.
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We escalate quickly. Watch out, the trident comes next!
Say, doesn't football season start soon? Time to move on to talking about Favre making it to the Hall o Fame on the first vote.
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Edit: language lessons
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This crash reminds me of the '99 C-130 Al Jaber crash which was all pilot/crew error.
I am amazed that there were only 2 deaths. The plane held up well upon impact. A heart felt thank you to the flight attendants/CFR for getting everyone off in a timely manner.
Edit: Oh, and to cankled-lady, when you try to egress a plane in flops, don't be surprised if your feet give out.
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^^^
A. No need, see below.
B. Nothing. Big Blue believes in only the bonus, as we have all heard in this forum. And stop loss, they believe in that too. So they don't need to manage it better, just slam the exit door whenever needed.
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Hey, I love this game. You know, the one where the in depth expert pulls back the curtain to the sausage factory. Or does he?
So, JCS is number one (already knew that). And if a dude is in that job, they are considered cream o' the crop. Best of the best. Top shelf. Solid gold. The go to guy. He is automatically better than anyone else, be it making coffee or making slides. He must be promoted.
So, how did he get there? Some sort of central selection board that looks at everyones record like a promotion board? The good ol boys inside track BNR? AMS Robot looking for exec job volunteers? Or the DT Vector team? Who really picks the people to go to those top joint jobs and thus seal their track to command/sr leadership?
We've seen it. New dude coming to the unit. Oh, he just did joint staff, he's shit hot. Need to make sure he gets the top shit. All before the dude ever walks in the door. Some are good dudes, and some are gigantic douches.
Zoooooooom shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BANG!
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Thats it! No more!
I want Congress to introduce legislation to ban all pistol gripped water nozzles, those are clearly very dangerous. Also, those car wash nozzles with the hose sticking out of the back, ban those. They can look like flame throwers.
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Russian River Brewing Company: Pliny the Elder (IPA)
Rate: 10/10
From the bottle: "Pliny the Elder, born in 23AD, was a Roman naturalist, scholar, historian, traveler, officer, and writer. Pliny and his contemporaries created the original botanical name for hops, "Lupus Salictarius" meaning "wolf among scrubs." Hop vines at that time grew wild among willows, likened to wolves roaming wild in the forest. Pliny the Elder died in 79AD while saving people during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. He was immortalized by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, who continued his uncle's legacy by documenting much if what his uncle experienced during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. This beer is an homage to the man who discovered hops and perished while being a humanitarian."
To Pliny, cheers!
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Sometimes the AF promotes and awards those that have gone full retard.
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The interesting thing is that once he spewed the crap, people started calling him out on it. I spotted it in the Constitution thread and even thought that he had two accounts and made posts that feed off each other. I don't care to look though.
Thanks M2, some threads were completely derailed and I stopped reading them.
Happy Fathers Day
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Well this shows a complete and profound misunderstanding of Fallujah.
Whatever dude. I wasn't there on the ground and most likely neither were you. I was just paraphrasing a short lil story from a buddy, the jist of which is that the MARINES don't want to be associated with the Army and really hate it when they're called soldiers. A distinct uniform helps.
Back to bitching about our sucky ABUs.
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Ahhh, good ol MWS ribbing.
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My Marine buddy shared that they wanted their own distinctive uniform to make sure nobody confuses them with the Army. He said the Marines put that to good use when the Fallujah went to hell while the Army was there and the Marines rotated in and made sure the locals knew heads were gonna roll with the new sherriff in town with their EGA badge.
There is benefit to uniform identity. Unfortunately, we got stuck with the second worst. Navy, you rule with the blue camo.
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Asiana 777 Crash at SFO
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But its in English!