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    ROTC instructor?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Good words...

    ...correct me if I'm giving out bad info. Cleared Hot and Learjetter??

    Can't speak for Cleared Hot...but I didn't read anything wrong with your words.

    Every officer's career path is unique and special...just like everyone else's.

    My standard advice: try to do what you want to do on each assignment: that was your motivation to get to UPT/UNT--to get to fly--and that motivation got you where you wanted to be.

    Look around at your former peers and at your former shop Chiefs/Flt CCs..where are they now? Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what you want to be doing? If so, follow them...if not, choose another path.

    I think it's great you're looking for options...but, bottom line, first figure out what you want to go do...then ask your Cc to help you get it.

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    Promotion and PRF Information

    in General Discussion

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    Exactly, that's the point.

    You think it's a better, fairer, or more accurate system to have a board of mixed AFSCs sitting around a table at Randolph deciding a guy's fate based entirely on his paper record than it is for the guy's direct chain of command who knows, works, flys, and has interacted with him to decide? ...How on earth do you figure that?

    For a Major's board ('12 as an example) with a ~90% promotion rate, you want the board to have to sift through 50% of the records (~1,280 records), just to turn around and promote 79% (~1,006) of them anyway? (It'd be even more if the promotion rate is 95%). What a waste of time. ...And if you think passed-over guys are bitter/butt-hurt now, imagine the mistakes and injustice that would come from giving more latitude to a board full of strangers using nonsense CGO OPR bullets to make promotion decisions.

    High DP rates (and DNPs) are one of the few things I think is good about the system. Let Senior Raters be SENIOR RATERS.

    #1: SRs lack authority to promote officers

    #2: SRs can be really dumb, can and do bend the rules

    #3: it's the fairest for all when IMPARTIAL folks evaluate your record

    #4: SRs input to the process is the PRF

    Torture! (Here we go)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Am I the only one who thinks we shouldn't have done this, but that the much bigger foul is talking about it? Anyone could get out of hand while "questioning" a Talibanimal, but poor OPSEC is inexcusable.

    "2"

    And the #1 rule of Fight Club?

    Promotion and PRF Information

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Any word on whether that 95% promotion rate for the 2005 year group is true, false, or just plain bull? Why would rates be that high if it's true?

    It's more like a 90% promotion opportunity. So if there are 2200 Capts IPZ, there will be about 1980 promotions for the 2500+ or so I/APZ Capts...

    Hopefully, they'll drop the DP rate to 50%...when its 75%, there are DPs who don't get promoted...and that sux.

    Non Continuation for passed over Majs

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Learjetter

    Someone has messed up my AFSCs somehow.. I have T12S as a duty and 11U for primary. Not sure if that would help, hurt, or do anything..?

    One showing you're a Nav and the other a Pilot? Get that fixed ASAP.

    "Duty AFSC" means exactly squat after you pin on major and leave the sq/Gp level jobs...Core ID and RTDM code are much more important to be correct.

    Duty AFSC is tied to the position # on the UMD you happen to occupy. On staff, it's very common to not have your core ID and duty AFSC match---mainly because there aren't enough officers of the right types to fill the staffs

    In a below-wing-level job, however, everything should match.

    Air National Guard pilot slot and degree(college major).

    in What Are My Chances?

    Posted

    Its stupid and ignorant to lock my thread because I asked a simple question.

    @ high speed, fuck you, u are full of shit!!!

    Emotionally fragile. Do not recommend you pursue US mil aviation until your skin is thicker.

    You didn't ask a simple question...you asked six difficult and complex questions no one here can answer to your satisfaction, and to which the answers will change over time.

    Go read a bunch more threads on the various sites, then come here and ask specific questions or for updated info.

    BL: getting a F-35 in 2022 means you graduated near the top of your t-38 tracked class in 2021. That means you finished high in T-6s. To get INTO training in 2020 you had to get a commission. That requires a college degree w/a high GPA and passing the physical, and the commissioning program (academy, OTS, ROTC). It's 2014 now, you're in high school. This is a LONG road.

    My advice (always the same):

    1) grad HS w/4.0 GPA, letters in 2 sports, and volunteer work

    2) go to college, do ROTC, don't be an ass, graduate w/4.0 in meteorology.

    3) go active-duty, go to UPT

    4) fly whatever the AF deigns you ready for until your commitment is up

    Now, decide if ANG/AFRES is right for you.

    Do not enlist hoping to get sent to OTS and UPT, or try to get picked up off the street straight to OTS/UPT.

    Or, ignore all that and execute your plan. We all got our wings and jets in our own way...perhaps you'll be one of the rare ones to enlist-to-officer-to-UPT?

    Good luck.

    Lock it.

    Is Command becoming that undesirable?

    in General Discussion

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    Does anyone know what percentage of rated officers make O-6 with no command experience?

    Sincere question, I genuinely don't know.

    Possible, but very long odds, and very dependent on your record versus the group you're competing with for a DP. Probably less than 10% of a given O-6 promotion list is comprised of non-post-command rated officers.

    But it IS possible...I know several. It's also possible to get an IPZ DP with no command and no school in-res.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Dude that's probably one of the best Lt stories I've seen. That was the definition of 'going big'. And from a PA officer, no less. Well done!

    2! Too bad, though, it'll cost him an Art-15, referral OPR, redline to Capt, etc. Darn shame.

    No one from the Eaker, Doolittle, Yeager, Olds, or even the Welsh generations can recognize the AF we're becoming when tying one on means your career is over.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    I understand this, but the Officer administering the oath should have exercised sound tactical judgement and heard "So help me God", whether the reenlistees said it or not. If he didn't immediately see the blatant unconstitutionality at play here and recognize the enormous black eye this is going to inflict on the Air Force then he isn't fit to wear his rank on his shoulders. We were taught at OTS that officer's may use their moral authority to deviate from the rules when it makes sense, this is one of those times.

    That's not what happened. Re-enlistee scratched thru the phrase on his enlistment form. FSS wouldn't accept the form with the phrase scratched out, since the duly enacted law of the land says he's gotta have the phrase on the form and say it in the oath.

    The AF recognized the AF was in the wrong to permit deviations in the oath and fixed it with a reg change. Obeying the reg is complying with US code. Nothing unethical or immoral about that.

    Like it was said a couple of posts up: the beef should be with US code, not the AF.

    And...if the kid valued serving more than making a public political statement, he'd not have defaced his enlistment paperwork and mumbled the phrase in the ceremony "so hand me grog" or similar.

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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Was curious about this one, so googled up the reg and the US code it references: the US code requires the "So help me God" phrase. AF was apparently wrong to permit omission of the phrase in the reg, so they released a reg change to fix that glitch. Until congress changes the US code, the oath shall contain the phrase. So if you're re-enlisting, you gotta sign and say it.

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