Karl Hungus
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The only way that this stupidity will stop is to vote with your feet. I challenge folks to not be fucking pussies and put their money where their mouth is. Leave in droves and shit WILL change, but not a moment sooner.
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Oklahoma State University offers a top tier program
LOL.
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Honestly, there wasn't anything earth-shattering here. PME, Masters, deployments, assignments, morale, etc. The usual gripes, and honestly, the usual answers from leadership.
With one big exception. He said it twice, including in his closing remarks, "Your priority is to be the best aviator, not do PME or get a Masters." How will he express that to the Wg, Gp, Sq leadership? But it's what he wants us doing, it's his priority, and we'll see if that translates to the field.
There won't be any meaningful changes to the PME/ masters nonsense until the AF separates non-rated and rated promotions. I'm not holding my breath.
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I know too many guys who are humping to get that last correspondence course done while working civilian jobs/guard jobs/coaching little league...life comes at you fast. Knock it out early (correspondence or in residence).
Once again, even the shittiest part of the guard is better than AD.
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Anyone know the details or have the video for the latest shine my ass incident?
Take away their wings and their FAA licenses and ban them from all guard units and blacklist them from Southwest and make an example of them so this doesn't happen again and send them to Clovis and won't someone think of the children? and promote me.
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Modern Air Force "Leadership"
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So, I have a favor to ask. I'd like to hear your thoughts on what is driving fighter pilot retention down. You can send them directly to my CAG at usafe.ccx@ramstein.af.mil. They'll strip names off the inputs, then pass them to me, unedited. I'm looking for the ground truth as you see it, not the filtered, watered-down "this is what the boss wants to hear" truth. Once I've seen it all, I'll give you some feedback...including what I plan to do with the info.
Almost two months later and crickets...
You're an O-6, correct? You as much as anyone should know what's wrong with this organization by simply reading what's discussed on this forum. What do you plan on doing with the information gained? You've been on this forum for at least as long as I have. What changes, if any, have you made as a result of information gained from this website? Or are O-6s now as powerless as the rest of us to provide the needed changes? Not calling you out, honestly curious if our O-6s are now as castrated as many of our O-5 SQ/CCs are.
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It's not better, it's just different. Value diversity!
Well said. I won't fault anyone for staying in, for whatever reason they stay in. I'm not going to be one of them, and I don't always understand why they make that decision, but I'm glad there are folks out there who do stay. I just wish those who do- the careerists, the ass-kissers, the good dudes, all of them- would value our diversity as well, and not label us as "not a team player" if we dare to pursue a different path than the one they know and love.
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I'm not very narrow in any way or angry right now, I'm curious. What military aircraft refer to their copilots as First Officers? Mine doesn't, so that's minus one from the 69 possibilities.
If you're talking airlines cool, just be clear b/c around here we're assuming military for obvious reasons.
He's saying that the -1 in the KC-10 refers extensively to the "First Officer" and "Captain" in duties, cockpit switches, etc etc. Mainly because the AF copied and pasted a large majority of it from the DC-10 manual. Most people don't give it a second thought.
That said, I've never heard of someone in the -10 community refer to "copilots" as "first officers", or even "first pilots" for that matter.
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The soldier sitting on the Jersey barrier looks a wee bit jealous...
Haha thought the same thing. She looks awful upset at being taken down from a Desert 6 to a CONUS 2.
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You're right, he's not that stupid. He actually hands out reflective vests when guys get their in-brief, but you only have to wear them on the flightline and to/from the chow hall.
Must be a U2-specific thing. None of the folks I know out there do this.
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They couldn't even get the year right.
I read on AFPC FAQ today that they're now only going to RIF 300 personnel. SO that's 300 from VSP and 300 from the RIF which is a far cry from the 2000-2500 they bandied about the first part of this year. I guess they're going to have to do another round in FY12.
So you're telling me there's a chance...
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Those look great. Will share those with the booms I fly with to let them know the new standard I expect of them.
You guys actually sanitize?
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I won't lie...it has been a few years, but the number 540k comes to mind as the max weight at which I could refuel an A-10...
540k is indeed the max weight to refuel Hawgs in the -10.
FWIW... most folks I know tend to try to get down to 190-200 KIAS when refueling Hawgs in the 17-19k MSL range. If that requires 0*/EXT or 5*/EXT or whatever, NBD. Most combat loaded Hawgs (OEF combat at least) can refuel in that range without needing a toboggan. If they need one, we offer one. Sometimes the Hawgs refuse and give it another try. Their call, we're there to help them. I've never seen or heard a -10 crew refuse to slow down, toboggan, give an extra 5k of gas, request a lower block, or fudge the confines of the anchor if it helps the Hawg or any receiver for that matter. If that's not the case, it needs to stop.
Coronets are a bit different- fighters have to understand that in a non-VFR environment, we're a lot more cautious about altitudes and gas given. Usually not a big deal, but some fighter folks seem to have the mindset that we have a refinery on board. We'll give you every drop we can, but usually we can't go much past your fragged offload on a coronet without going below min fuel ourselves. We make a pretty shitty glider.
The biggest issue we tend to run into is fighters who try to make their own contacts. Park the jet in the center of the envelope, and let the boom operator do the only part of their job that doesn't involve making us our chicken nuggets.
This is all -10 specific. Can't speak to what the -135s do...
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At least those at Willford Hall, the supposed experts.
Military docs, the supposed experts, are military docs for a reason. Most of the time it's not because of an extreme desire to serve their country...
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It seems I'm not the only one who uses the AF as a topic in most of my papers, and mostly as an example of how fucked up the organization is. Perhaps baseops.net could create a masters gouge section, where people post their papers and others can look them over and see if any previous research would be beneficial for their own assignments. This would be purely for reference use only, I'm not at all advocating that someone try to use all available shortcuts to try and ease the pain and hassle of getting a more or less worthless check-the-box masters degree. Yes, for reference use only. Cough cough.
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I'm with Ken on this one. Not saying it's a great plan, but...my $.02 added below.
I've seen all across these boards how ALL the good people get out and ALL that's left are the riff raff and that's who you are left with for commanders and leadership. Well, the powers that be are trying to get rid of the riff raff and lots of what I'm hearing is how I should have been allowed to get out of my commitment early and get paid to do it.
I don't know...maybe if you only have 5-10% to get rid of and you think that you may have that many with quality force issues then I'm all for getting rid of the ash and trash instead of the people that still have something to contribute; whether they think they were entitled to VSP or not. I also don't think that many 11/12's will be let go with the RIF, but to suggest that an RFF not be accomplished or be minimally done would only invite the BS after the RIF when people actually did get booted since their paperwork looked like shit compared to everyone else. The announcement for the RIF said that the board is not looking at AFSC targets so whether AFSC is masked or not, I don't know, but there are no quotas. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few surprises to go along with the more "obvious" RIF choices that you mention.
People aren't necessarily pissed that they're not being let out early and getting paid to do so... they're pissed that they were lied to and have now shown their cards. People can deny that that will be a player (the old "hopefully you have a good commander..." line), but it WILL be a player for a lot of people. A lot of this could have been avoided if they would have told the truth from day 1: rated folks with any meaningful ADSC remaining would have zero chance of getting approved VSP and are going to have zero chance of a RIF provided they don't have some egregious UCMJ violation. People would still be pissed at AD for the same things, but at least they wouldn't have shown their cards for no reason. The fact that the DoD/ Air Staff/ AFPC/ whoever didn't realize they'd get so many rated applications speaks volumes about how out of touch they are.
However, the math isn't adding up for me. Total to separate equals what ~2K to 2.5K? So VSP =300 plus the FAQs A1 (?) just put out says another ~300-ish through the RIF. Are they going to get another 1.4K to 1.9K through SERBs of O-5s and O-6s and retirements? That's a lot of passed over O-5/6's that are just hanging around. I know a few, but I also know several that met the last round of the SERB and therefore are not eligible this time around. Some of them are still around and others are retiring or will be shortly. Maybe the numbers add up, but I'm not seeing it.
Agreed. 600 does not equal 2500. Should the non-rated folks be terrified? Did the AF lie about the total # of officers it needs to get rid of as well? Will be interesting.
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I'd say he's done a lot better than going to the airlines...
There are tons of things, airlines or not, that the smart, talented, highly trained, highly educated, highly motivated, and highly pissed off pilot force can (and will) do that don't involve spending an extra instant more on active duty than they have to.
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Close the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy. Have one United States Military Academy where graduates compete for whatever service/job they would like to enter. Expand ROTC programs and OTS. Have more folks entering the service without the "I've been brainwashed since I was 18 that if life isn't miserable then something is wrong" mentality. Have combined USAFA/USN/USMA football team kick Notre Dame's ass over and over again.
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SHACK.
Back on topic, nice job by these guys.
I hope I never have to fly an Airbus. The RAT stops working once the gear is down, leaving 5 minutes of battery power. WTF? Was that thing designed by my 5 year old?
I'll stick with Boeings.
Boeings that rip open in flight?
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Are you talking about Little Rock?
Sorry, should have been more specific. KC-10s. We fly on Friday nights too. What are weekends again?
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Your weekends are F'd!
We've had saturday/sunday sims for years. And now we have saturday/sunday locals as well. The only way to assure yourself (and your family) that you'll be around on the weekend is to be on leave or in PMCR.
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My SERE date is half in the winter and half in the summer months. According to the "what to bring" list, jungle boots are only authorized in the summer months. What exactly is the definition of a jungle boot. I have one pair of black boots to go with my old school BDUs and they have mesh on the side. They are, however, water proof all the way to the top. I'd wear the all leather issued boots but they make my feet blister up faster than an albino on the beach.
You can wear those black mesh boots. I don't remember anyone giving a shit about what boots you wore in the field. If they at least look like boots, you're good to go. You'll be wearing those overboot things during the winter anyway.
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You don't know that. No one does. Maybe he got task saturated at the wrong time and let the altimeter drop from his crosscheck for a second.
The boss could be saying "Flying high performance aircraft is challenging. As we all saw here, a few seconds of distraction can be nearly fatal. We're thankful he has incredible skill and was able to correct his mistake and no one got hurt."
This isn't a fucking crime deserving of this type of punishment. You want to punish him somehow, fine...drop a letter of abomination in your desk droor. Taking his wings is a pussy move by a weak command. I don't care how high your horse is, it just isn't that big a deal.
Again, this ain't no puss game, he shacked the fucking timing and momentary deviations are authorized.
Shack. But that would take real leadership, of which there is very, very little left.
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I am just curious with all the pilots. What is one of the main reason you think plane crashes happen? Is it the plane, pilot, both, ATC what? My main area of interest is proper flight instruction and safety in flying. I became concerned in this area after being a flight attendant and having a very scary flight experience. I would love some feed back! Thanks!
Flight Attendants who can't speak English and have terrible grammar are the biggest reason.
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He's referring to the folks who got RPAs out of UPT, and are hoping to fly something real someday.