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I laughed a bit at the “top 60% of the top third” line. Admittedly I’m a product of public school and OTS but my math equates that to about the top 20% of total. Which I thought was where we were at already…

I’ll take a stab at the “doctrinal” concept of air superiority/strategy as related to fighters. Using China as an example, long range precision fires, maritime interdiction of supplies, and non-kinetics will play more of a role in achieving the AF’s #1 doctrinal priority than a 4-ship of Raptors on a Banzai flow. Admittedly, in a tactical sense of traditional strike packaging, you need to have the OCA players out front steamrolling the lane, but to think only fighters have a role to play in air superiority is incorrect.

Different question on leave but wanted to keep it in this thread. Can you sell back leave while Active Duty? I see that you can sell back up to 60 days during your career and usually that's done when you separate if you don't take terminal. My thought would be you can sell the 60 days back throughout your career and then when it's terminal time, you just use the remaining balance as terminal leave. Kind of a double whammy situation. Is that allowed?

Isn’t it right side which is why the passing rules for helos are to the right and fixed wing to the left?

This came out a few years ago and then there were 3 subsequent article written by a black ENJJPT grad that claims he was targeted for wanting to fly heavies and being black (https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/07/12/the-consequences-of-implicit-bias-at-euro-nato-pilot-training/). https://www.drnathandial.com/ ^Author’s personal page. Looks like he’s done very well. I don’t think there will be any more “white people bad” meetings in the near term as a result of this video.

With IDE complete and no skeletons, you should make O-5 no problem.

Preview of confirmation hearing:

Slife to me is a textbook case of the importance of referential power and reputation. He was a hardass when he was the wing commander at HRT and didn’t make any friends. Fast forward when he came back as AFSOC CC, so many people that knew nothing about him had negative views of him based purely on WOM from his earlier tenures. I understand the man in that everything is black and white and you need to follow those processes or face the consequences. He handles business harshly which also doesn’t make many friends. He had some good ideas and some bad ideas but based purely on that reputation, it didn’t matter what it was the force was resistant.

He’s definitely not well liked/thought of by the majority of AFSOC.

I know a guy in this class and he told me that they are planning the following: 2 x C-130J 2 x KC-135 2 x U-28 2 x C-146 They also are supposedly wanting to grab from the middle third and then the next tranche of this would be from the bottom third to not skew results.

Who is buying/selling Colorado and Deion Sanders after the TCU game?

I feel sorry for these stolen valor types. It’s a sad life to feel the need to find worth in a made up existence.

I remember he got doxxed by Rick R and he fell off after.

That sucks about your Congressman @mcbush. The only time I ever reached out to mine (Sen Mike Rounds from South Dakota), I went to his website, followed the contact procedure, and had a staffer reach out to me by the end of the day. Problem was solved in 3 days. I was actually shocked at how well it went.

Plenty of pussies though *ba dum tss*

That’s the secret you don’t really get until later in your career…you can’t do it by yourself. And every community needs studs so don’t think because someone is flying a Viper or Tanker instead of a Raptor that they are less than.

You know that he’s referring to the huge number of people that beg, borrow, and snivel to get disability percentages for dubious reasons. The guys that get fat as fuck, get sleep apnea, and now have 100% disability. The guy I work with who is a retired E-7 and told me that he “sold it” to get a carpal tunnel diagnosis and some other crap to get 100% like that’s a badge of honor. Or the Boot Camp PTSD claims for 100%. Aviators with wrecked backs, necks, etc deserve disability ratings. I don’t have a solution to prevent the false claims and it’s not up to me to determine. I know that I’ll pursue legitimate reasons for disability when it’s time and will be able to look myself in the mirror. If folks can scam the government and get a check as a result but can have a clean conscience, then more power to them, I guess.

Here’s an example civics test we could use.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/us-train-ukrainian-pilots-f-16-air-national-guard-base/ Arizona ANG to train Ukrainian Viper pilots and maintainers.

I thought Liquid was the current AF/A3 and future Vice Chief lol…guess I was wrong on that.

I listened to this and the highlight to me was about the 35 minute point where he answers the obvious bait question about the alphabet soup people. Good interview and thanks for posting.

I remember back when the Bin Laden raid happened and a bunch of people were mad about Obama taking a lot of credit (even though he was pretty deferential and gave credit to lots of folks). In that case, that was 100% his decision and very easily could’ve tanked his presidency like Eagle Claw. I didn’t vote for Obama but he deserved tons of credit for ordering that. In your scenario, people would be claiming we shouldn’t have left, he abandoned an ally/girls in school, China was going to move in, he didn’t have the spine for a tough war, doesn’t understand international affairs, etc. Comes with the territory.

I’ve worked quite a bit with AI and proposed solutions on this very topic. I think copilots jobs are safe for a long, long time if the current state is any indication of where the technology is.

All good ideas that I'd like to see implemented. I'll pull on the acquisition and test process thing a bit to get your take. I was the DO of a rapid acq and test squadron and I saw some interesting stuff. I will say that the AF's (and by extension DoD writ large) is WAY too slow on this topic, but the steps taken and processes in place for acq/test are actually pretty good to prevent wasting of resources. I heard on the Merge about how NGAD was going to use a new testing process but has since gone back to the old method. That's disappointing but I don't know enough to intelligently comment on that. The part that concerns me about your statement is the lack of response to your force (I'm assuming C-130 based on your avatar?). One constant battle I had (I also was the Command Chief Pilot while the DO so it was my job to make sure we knew what the community wanted and looked for) was a lack of knowledge about how to get things changed. There was the standard aircrew bitching but hardly ever any follow through on actual written requirements and documents. That's where the big disconnect would take place because we would move out immediately on stuff once we got it...we just had to get it. Writing 1067's, JUONs, CMNS, TIPs, anything like that will at least get the ball rolling to allocate resources. Do those requirements just not go anywhere or what's going on?

I always hear that about top level players but it wasn’t nearly as widespread as people think. Some definitely got some shady money under the table, but the vast majority of players didn’t get anything beyond scholarship and stipend. Now with NIL, there are high school kids signing multi-million dollar deals just to sign at certain schools. It’s truly nuts. That coupled with the transfer rules changing completely changes the landscape. The dirty secret about the transfer portal is something like 50% of kids that enter it don’t find a home on the other side and their career is over. Wild stuff.