08Dawg

And where are all these masks coming from??

Yeah, I think we can all agree about the obligation piece. My thought is that a) our readiness is better served by a healthy force that has been shielded from this crap by as much isolation or minimum contact as possible and b) that if our readiness is in such a critical state that it can’t take the shock of a three week tactical pause, we’re in an even worse way state than perhaps we suspected previously. I’d be more worried about an adversary’s advancing if this outbreak was largely affecting just the US, but everybody has it. No other country is in much better shape than we are. We need to aggressively confront this thing. A two or three week hard stop now IMHO is better than dragging this on for months and months by not taking drastic steps.

And I’d expect one could easily infect the other, especially on a crewed aircraft.

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but in the face of a widespread pandemic, how is training and flying mission essential? Especially at an AETC base...everybody needs to take a knee for 14 days. I keep hearing “hack the mission, get after the mission”...gonna be kinda hard to do that when some ops group somewhere develops an outbreak of this stuff.

I’d say it’s more a bastard child of ACC trying to live up to its grand pappy SAC but with a massive inferiority complex.

Semi-related, I saw where Lackland said no family or visitors will be allowed at basic training graduations for the time being.

At least when they stand up Space Academy, space cadet will finally be an official term.

In today’s climate, I don’t know why anyone would aspire to command.

Kinda symptomatic of how the Air Force develops officers and it shows what promotion boards value. Just about every O-6/CC bio you see is one or two ops tours, then school this, fellowship that, exec to blah blah blah...a periodic touch and go back to flying to punch the DO or Sq/CC card, then more school...on and on. Flying skill and tactical competency does not seem to be valued when grooming for O-6, hence, the 2200 hr Wg/CC.

Six Buffs to Diego...the plot thickens

Context?

Wouldn’t call it “chopping block” but my buddy got picked up by Great Falls as a nav and they said they’re highly likely to get Js soon and send him to UPT

Gen Ray was in Minot a couple of weeks back and talked about this. Seems like the four stars are all on board with it.

Barksdale squadrons have them, Minot squadrons do not...go figure. But no rank on the shoulders observed by any bros seen wearing them. Just the rank on the name tag.

WTF, you forgot the best of the best, Allegiant!

When he was the AFCENT commander, he was still CMR in the Raptor and flying combat sorties. Kinda badass IMHO.

Two of them actually. One to replace the Guam crash and one to replace the one that burned up at KBAD in 15 or so.

Just because you can fly on six does not mean you should

747 ahead of the Buff? Naw....172 on the list at all....hell naw. That's like saying "Bad ass car- Honda Accord". No F-86?

You could do far worse than to “end up” in a bomber...

Why now that’s he’s been nominated as VCJCS and not when he was put up for STRATCOM/CC? Not saying it did or didn’t happen, but the timing is fishy.

Won’t release your guys to staff when that is an assignment that is still a heavy discriminator on the promotion board.

They’re finally getting smart and converting a bunch of ART jobs to AGR. Miraculously, they now have RNs and EWs taking those spots!

Got to do a pretty cool thing in March. Flew the first flight of a four leg journey for a retiring military working dog through Pilots n Paws. His former handler adopted him, but the dog was in ND (two minutes from my office incidentally) and the family lives in Missouri. Had to wait two months for a break in the shitty winter weather, but it was very special to help an AF dog and his former AF handler reunite. If you want to find a mission or purpose for your recreational flying, Pilots n Paws is a great one to get into.

Ditto for the Buff bros/broettes