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I dunno if we wholesale stole the idea, but AFGSC has the Stiker Vista program now. First round sent Bone guys to Buffs and vice versa. The next round, we're in a full-on three way (STS). B-2 to Bone, Buff to Bone, Bone to Buff.

What's more...we're approved to carry our EFBs into the vault and the sim building.

But let's have two O-4 boards in a year. Wonder if the 09 guys will have to wait around a year and a half before pinning on.

Thought there was some talk of it, but I haven't seen anything official yet.

YGBFSM...the cyber nerds get a bonus but the 12x community doesn't....I guess I'll just resign myself to beating people up at United...

So you can get the few remaining real leaders in the Air Force killed off and finally have the shoe clerks be fully in charge? And you paper-pushing desk monkeys are still SO confused why nobody is taking your blood money and running full speed for the door and the airlines instead. Serious, almost service-crippling flyer shortage, but let's send the best flyer in the wing on a non-vol, non-flying four year assignment to chase goat-humpers and get shot at in a third world shithole. Seems legit! Oh wait...don't feed the troll.

Anybody know what the approval chain for the Medical ETP is for Guard/Reserve side? Still Wing-NAF-MAJCOM-AF/CV?

It's going to be funny and sad at the same time to watch those guys they try to pull back in laugh and give the Air Force the finger.

With the current hemorrhaging of manpower, I find this unsurprising. I had an FTU instructor who retired as a captain...with a toilet boil on his wings. Weirdest thing I ever saw.

Sounds like the Buff

Probably because 12M no longer really exists outside the Guard/Reserve

RN- Radar Nav- the left seat downstairs guy in the Buff. Controls bombs, missiles, radar and pod. Has no control over defensive stuff. EW- Electronic Warfare Officer. Jams things, has no control over weapons. WSO- Weapon System Officer- historically, the backseaters in Bones and Mudhens. About a year ago, AFGSC made the decision to relabel radar navs and navs as WSOs because "WSOs promote better because everybody knows what a WSO is but nobody knows what an RN is"....or so I was told. The Striker Vista guys, coming from Bones, are versed in both offensive and defensive skill sets, but the Buff's EA suite is so much more man-in-the-loop than the Bone's that it'd be like teaching the guy Greek or something (wait, can I say that or is it offensive?) Skillset translates better putting him in the RN seat. There, now you know more than you ever wanted to about the world of the 12B.

Make corn and stock the beer fridge...

Luckily, I do! We, thankfully, did not shoehorn him in the EW seat. He went through IQT academics and a more or less TX-like flightline program as an RN...er, WSO....

If he wants to say "No drinking in OG controlled buildings"...fine...but I wonder a) what defines an "off base...semi-official function" and b) how well that order would stand up in court? This isn't Japan or Korea...

They were probably stoked...until they found out the Bones were picking up the Guam rotations...

I think the real intent is to create the B-21 initial cadre and senior leadership. All the bombers heretofore have been pretty stovepiped the last decade or so, sans the Buff to B-2 pipeline. This gives a bit of a broader perspective for the new bomber.

Valid. Even better..."You're the bottom of your class, here's an F-16". Either way, that's a helluva drop.

Gawd dayum..."You're bottom of your class....here's a compensatory C-17"

Still no 12x bonus....yeah, yeah, I know...."shut up, nav!"

Might be a placeholder the. U-boats aren't using the "CSO" nomenclature.

Our ARTs tend to take leave the Monday after a UTA...

Although we only just put through our first two Bone-to-Buff Striker Vista guys, I get the sense they were "could've easily gone to WIC but still on a command track" types, so that's likely out. Both our guys pinned on major while at the FTU, too, to give you a sense of where they were in the timeline. I'd expect to stick around. After hemorrhaging IPs/ACs the last couple of years to back fill 11F white jet bills, nobody is going anywhere this spring/summer. We're seriously hurting on manning all across the board. If you want to stick around and fly, it should be pretty easy.

TR slots for all my friends!

It only halfway makes up for the pain of being a GS-12 to the IP's GS-13...