Karl Hungus

"Military officer thinks he's marching too much", of course not. "General Officer abuses power/people/resources in a time of extreme fiscal restraint", sure.

Read the forums at APC.com. Having a masters degree could help you get hired, but it seems that it's a relatively small piece of the puzzle. Plenty of regional guys without a bachelors degree have been hired, so by no means is it a requirement.

The IG is set up to prevent such bullshit... but unfortunately, the IG is often as corrupt as the careerist managers who perpetrate this nonsense. There are lots of people at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes that would love to hear these stories. If the IG doesn't work out... there are certainly other options.

And that's what's most important. If you can't fix complicated issues that are present throughout society like DUIs, suicides, sexual assaults, and pretty much anything that involves humans being humans, then at least do something visible. Leadership is hard, it's much easier to just be a manager and claim you're a leader.

"Senior Leadership" at its finest.

It's not at all unique. Tons of organizations want their employees to get AADs, not just defense contractors. Of course, those organizations also look at where you got the degree and what subject matter it's in. None are impressed with a bullshit online Touro MBA, let alone SOS and ACSC. How many people are able to get a real, valuable masters degree, from a real school, by the time they meet their major's board? Certainly some are, but most don't have that ability between their supposed primary duty, all of their additional duty BS, deployments, etc. Like a lot of things, the AF has good intentions with terrible execution.

Serious props to Welsh if this is true. Hopefully it goes beyond the DQHB... it needs to cease being tracked by the AF completely and eliminated on SURFs or else not much will change.

In all fairness, people are complaining about minute bullshit like the clubs because the big problems have been discussed ad nauseum with no fixes in sight. The most promising chief of staff in a generation is either unwilling or unable to fix the big issues plaguing this organization. I'm sure he's a fantastic guy to have a beer with, but it seems that he's just another politician manager in a long line of them, albeit one who isn't socially inept and really does give a great speech. Still waiting on that vector from January 2013... This is hardly the first time the lameness of the club has been discussed here. The AF reaps what it sows- it castrated the clubs in a knee-jerk reaction to public scandals, and then acts surprised when most people have zero desire to use it. Combine that with the younger generation of officers' desire to have a distinct work/life separation, and this is what you get. Fuck it, let it die.

Politician managers. The appearance of fixing things is more important than actually fixing things. Move on to the next job and it'll be someone else's problem.

It's not just the bonus- when was the last time flight pay increased? How much would $650 turn into to match inflation? Doesn't really matter, there are plenty of folks who are going to stay anyway and are happy to trade control of their life away for $18k/year.

You mean other than Harry Bishop a couple years ago? He's now in prison (what a joke) but nobody had their licenses revoked as far as I know.

But... he gave a great speech at the academy this one time! He wrote a letter to USAFE fighter pilots! He got rid of Blues Monday... sorta! All sarcasm aside, if he won't un-fuck this toxic organization, I'm not sure that anyone will.

Maybe he's surrounded by yes-men? Or worse... maybe he has been told, but just doesn't care?

She's a politician. Just like the rest of our "senior leaders".

"We didn't lie, the truth changed!"

Sounds like you've worked for some terrible companies.

Interesting. http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140429/NEWS05/304290065/Leaders-encourage-active-duty-airmen-go-reserves

How can we trust the Air Staff to get the big things right, if they can't even take care of the little things? Or does AF logic, like integrity, only work when it's convenient?

MacDill has BBJs?

Still waiting on that "vector" from January 2013. Transparency in the force management process, written guidance eliminating the obvious bullshit (masters, correspondence PME), etc... CSAF will get to that one day. Maybe.

One of the better summaries to date. AF "leadership" has really f-ed themselves on this one. The younger generations are paying very close attention to this debacle, and are planning accordingly. I don't know many folks in the 05-12 year groups who plan on staying past their commitment. That's not a good thing.

So to summarize, there's zero reason to transfer the GI Bill to your dependents while on AD if you have any intention of leaving AD for the ARC. And if/when that law Three Holer mentioned passes, there will be zero reason to transfer it while on AD period.

This. The clock is ticking. What's to prevent people from waiting until they separate and then transfer the benefits while they're in the guard/reserve?

Save this email, and be sure to forward it on to wherever he tries to go next- school/guard/reserves/airlines/walmart/whatever. Karma's a bitch.

I wonder what number that got lowered to before it made it to Welsh, given that he had no clue how fucked up the FY14 Force Management process was until a week ago and all.