Seriously

What's the ops tempo for you guys? And what does an average work week look like for an AGR type?

Are you a Nashville guy, by chance?

strat juggling at it's finest.

What airframe do you teach on? If it's the T-6, I doubt you're seeing many fighter guys come through other than the occasional senior officer who has 50 hours in the last 5 years.

It's lazy/uncourageous leadership looking for easy discriminators instead of getting know their people (and giving them honest feedback).

I'm confused. Why would you not work when you're getting paid to work?

was that gump?

The 06 year group doesn't even have enough guys to fill all the cc billets.

"Fight like we train" How could we possibly demonstrate our ability to accomplish the mission without exercises?

I had just started PIT when they decided to take tac form out of the syllabus. One of the major driving forces behind it was to reduce washout rates at PIT.

20/70 is the limit and waivers aren't that uncommon. Good luck!

I thought that program was called IFT (Initial flight training). When DOSS took over, it went back to being called IFS (initial flight screening).

The Air Force had to kill IFT because it was too great of a deal.

You can be cool with abortion and gay marriage and still think that safe-spaces are retarded. Nothing inherently binds you to blindly follow a single party's doctrine.

Flight screening has been around for a long time. Before DOSS IFS, it was IFT (probably what you did). Before that it was T-3s at Hondo. Before that it was T-41s (Big Spring, TX?). Hondo was happening in the mid-90s. The T-41 goes back to the 60s. Not sure if there was anything else between those two or if everyone had to attend that training. http://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/129834/officials-announce-t-3a-firefly-final-disposition/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_T-41_Mescalero

Look into order of merit for UPT selection. A substantial portion of the OM is commander's ranking. That's the only place those other activities to potentially come into play. If you're still in high school, choose a few extra curriculars that you will stick with and excel at. If you're in college, your time is best spent on not being a reliable cadet, having a good PFT score, and having a decent (3.0 GPA). It's a balance, though. Don't wholly sacrifice one category for another. I saw a number of guys in college try to be involved in everything the detachment did only to lose sight of the other categories and get kicked out of ROTC for a bad GPA. On the other end of the spectrum, "ghost cadets" also didn't fare well.

If you want to be a pilot, don't settle for anything less (if you can help it). Once you go nav or ABM, your chances of ever becoming a pilot are extremely small. It happens, but it will be even more competitive. Getting a PPL will help in a lot of ways. It'll give you insight into whether or not you actually want to be a pilot, it shows that you want to be a pilot, and in UPT it will give you confidence on the radios.

Keep trying. You don't have enough evidence to conclusively say what "the problem" is (assuming there actually is a problem). If you're worried it's your personality, then just remember to be confident, but the weapons school motto is "humble, credible, approachable" for a reason. Try to embody those traits.

How soon before air base commanders make a comeback to the CAF?

It's fun to bitch. There are some legitimate gripes, but I don't know a single pilot pining for a finance job.

I don't think this is true. The Massif jacket and pants are both approved for fighter aircrew wear.

Didn't even click on the link did you? Sad. Allow me to help you out. This is a small portion of the polls combined in the graphic. It's pretty clear that more Americans favor the ACA than those who do not favor it.

Probably because the majority of Americans have a favorable view of the ACA. http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/us-health-bill