WABoom
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Everyone will have the same pen tab patch in our sq. I'm ok with that, we're voting on a design this week.
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That's exactly why I get up in the morning. And lets not get into the stigma debate.
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That post makes sense to me Liquid.
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Using a guy/gal that retires at 20 years with the high 3 years consisting of 2 years as a LtCol and one year as a Major vs 3 years as a LtCol.
(O-5 pay)$8,422.20 + $8,422.20 + (O-4 pay)$7,356.60 = $24,201/3 = $8,067/2 = $4,033.50 (50% of base pay)
(O-5 pay)$8,422.20/2 = $4,211.10 (50% of base pay)
OK obviously not a math major or an expert on the Top-3 retirement sysytem, yet, but it looks like only a difference of $177.60. I think it would take a little over 235 years to lose half a million dollars. Feel free to correct my logic if I am wrong.
http://militarypay.defense.gov/retirement/ad/03_highthree.html
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I'm glad they're officially back. I will leave the rest to What's wrong with the AF thread. I hope our sq goes with a good color, heck I wouldn't even take black, got a shit ton of those tees still hiding in my dresser.
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Just speaking to the squadron level. I was reiterating TC's logic about how we promote people and the boxes they need to check, waypoints in his article, and how this cookie cutter approach is not always effective. I have been around a long time, I know how the AF works, doesn't mean that we can't address these issues and evolve. If things are not working, change them.
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not sure what you mean as all sq/ccs are first time sq/ccs. No one is picking on the tankers
I am only talking about what I know. Tanker world. Just saying that sometimes we could use an experienced commander, not a rookie like we get every time. Again, I was only talking about the tanker world because that's the lane I am in.
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I have often posed the question why an Air Refueling Squadron always had to get a first time commander? I already knew the answer and I already knew that's just the next progression waypoint that TC points out in his article. Again, I will say that careerism is the AF's #1 problem. We care more about promoting people than we do about promoting the right people, at the right time.
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Just came back from a week long TDY and was nervous to open my email. Although I don't think I have anything to worry about, I still do because you never know what Big Blue will do. This is no way to live.
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I assume you mean AMC, but I can see the AETC guy say that too.
This guy.
http://www.littlerock.af.mil/library/biographies/bio.asp?id=17011
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AD from the sounds of it. Azimuth and I worked for him, I can see him saying that. I could be wrong......
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I really want to believe in our leaders when they say we will have to do less with less, but we all know that you and I will get the job done no matter what. This reduction plan can and should be done smartly, I just don't see it happening. Please prove me wrong Big Blue!
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It's crazy to me that instead of informing only the eligible personnel, we instead make over 300K personnel wonder if it's their time over Christmas and New Years. I have a skeleton deep in the closet and it sure as shit made me worry. Too many questions left unanswered.
This rollout was ALMOST as bad as online Obamacare.
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Any EPR in their career that is less than a 5 overall.
That's bullshit. ^^^^^^^^^^
Sq/cc briefed today EPR Quotas were coming in 2014. Only 5% get 5's, 20% 4's, and 75% for the rest. All EPR's will closeout on the same day as well. FML
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What happened to the other NSFW thread? My daily stop btw. lol
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Had the pleasure of refueling the JSF today. Cool plane, but I also learned what "Cold Iron" meant a couple of times this week too.
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Guilty until proven innocent.......Acquitted and yet still guilty of who knows what.-
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During SAPR training they really dragged this mans name through the mud, no hope for an apology i'm sure. I also wonder if Kobe Bryant knows they are using his Colorado case as an example???
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Are we training the future "sock checkers" in the AOR at the E-1 through E-3 level?Yes.
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Pretty big "NO" from me. Here is what surprised me the most: out of the ~100 items on the multiple pre-deployment checklists I had to accomplish (many including CBTs such as cultural sensitivity, foreign language modules, sexual harassment, OPSEC, etc), not one of those items was "Sit down and read the three Class B-E mishap reports from MC-12's in the past." All past in-flight mishaps were related to stalls while in orbit with the autopilot on. I would say 90+% of the deployed pilots have not read these, and wouldn't you agree that they would be the most important readers of such reports? I'd say that's a pretty big failure at multiple levels. Not to mention after arriving to deployment, we have another 20+ item reading list, and guess what is still absent from the reading list?
I wish an O-10 would read your comment TLAR. Our priorities are all messed up. Fix those and the AF may get back on the right track.
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The argument isn't about capabilities, it's about what we can afford to lose and save the most money.
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Tanker units trying to figure out how to squeeze in?
I sure as hell hope so!
Return of Friday shirts / patches
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I guess so. I am just glad they're back. One step at a time. Remember......