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I’ll preface this with being a poor soul in ACSC 7.0.
I finished a class and signed up for another thinking I’ll get some poop done while teleworking. But apparently I missed the deadline (Which I couldn’t even see until I finished the last class to sign up for the next. Standard AF catch 22) and now I have to wait a fvcking month.
Anyone have the topics for the papers for Leadership part 2? I’d like to at least get this garbage done.
I appreciate the help.
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On 9/28/2018 at 7:30 AM, Sua Sponte said:
https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-mobility-wing-sexual-assault/
”Howard sought a relationship with “a very junior airman” in his command, the formal reprimand stated. He made “disgusting remarks” about his penis to her and regularly attempted to flirt with her, the reprimand stated.”
“Between July and September 2016 at or near Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, Howard is accused of maltreatment of the senior airman, whose name is redacted, by rubbing his groin against the senior airman and making inappropriate comments on at least two occasions, according to the charge sheet.”
We sure know how to pick ‘em.
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When we briefed for a sortie at IP school he looked at me dead ass serious and said, “Hey man, if you see any ducks we need to aim for ‘em. I’m serious, I’m gonna kill every one of them fcukers.” He was one of the best pilots I ever had the pleasure and privilege of flying with and learning from.
His intelligence and flying skills were only trumped by his personality...he was one hell of a great dude and aviator.
Prayers to him and his family. Tailwinds to you brother.
-Herk
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13 minutes ago, Fuzz said:
Yeah, I respect said dude that made the post, but’s he’s off the mark there. Telling LTs about the AF screwing up RIFs, VSPs, promotions, squadron manning (I.e MAF crew ratio reduction) isn’t poisoning the well is valuable education albeit mostly negative. However, there’s an easy solution for this, if the Air Force doesn’t like us passing on the screw ups to the younger generations, stop ing screwing up on a perpetual basis!
His entire post is par for his anal spelunking career. The entire thing is right out of AF PME....
Step 1. Relate to your audience: “while I consider myself a pretty salty major”. Bullshit...salty majors don’t cry when they’re not a first look school select. Nor do they tell me to zip my flight suit pocket the day I get back from recon after a 6 month deployment.
Step 2. Tow the party line: “I would challenge all of us to do some introspection and stop poisoning the well when we talk to the up and coming pilots.” GFY, you didn’t come to this conclusion, the brass at the top dropped that down your gullet like free shots at the Blue Oyster. Also, only GOs use the word “introspection”...not heroes like us with masters from Trident/Toro/TUIU/whatever they are now to keep them in business. (We all know the best schools change their name to maintain accreditation.)
Step 3. Boast to the world how awesome you are. “Hey Pilot Network, I just sat down with the CSAF. Everyone look at me and how I just sucked my way to Sq/CC!”
I would love to read that OPR bullet.
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And now the vice wing commander is in charge of the J model Airlift Wing...he’s a nav.
I like Rooster, he’s an old school dude who doesn’t put up with shit. But this is the 2nd time big blue has put a nav in command of a J model “Airlift Wing”. The other being the schoolhouse, which is why I use the term “Airlift Wing” loosely.
I don’t understand putting a guy in command who can’t fly the only MWS assigned to him. (Yes there are ways he can fly on a J, but that’s not the intent.)
A WSO in charge of the Bomber Wing or a Fighter Wing with Strike Eagles, sure. I get that. But this is just silly, especially to have done it multiple times now.
I assume I’m missing something.
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13 hours ago, pawnman said:
You can always wear the blues.
I, for one, am looking forward to no longer blousing the pants the way you do with ABUs.I thought the ground OCPs are still bloused. They have the little straps at the bottom that the BDUs had. The 2 piece OCP flight suit is un-bloused.
I got some 2 piece flight suits about 5yrs ago, but I swore we called them multi-cams.
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Talked to a buddy in the Guard Dawgs, he said they had some guys out on the ramp who watched the PRANG take off. They said it looked like they lost both engines on the same side. They tried to return to 28 when it happened.
Prayers and tail winds to our brothers and their families.
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On 3/13/2018 at 8:48 PM, Goblin said:
The rumor floating around is that all the C-21s are heading to Scott, the C-40s are leaving Scott and going to Andrews and the C-37s at MacDill are closing and moving 1 each jet to Hickam, Ramstein, and Andrews.
Caveat: very loose rumor with very little background/data to support.Per an 18AF buddy of mine. Macdill loses its Gulfstreams to Ramstein & Hickam. Ramstein & Hickam lose their C-40s to Andrews. The C-40s at Scott belong to AFRC and don’t go anywhere.
FY19 is supposed to be the completion date, but this hasn’t been signed off by HASC/SASC (one of them) yet.
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On 3/13/2018 at 8:49 AM, MDDieselPilot said:
Where is said thread?
Military Aviation — ANG/AFRC — Palace Chase Info
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21 hours ago, hindsight2020 said:
This is the part where regAF guys don't have the full picture when it comes to retention. See, when 19th went to HAF and told them to carve AETC out of the bullshit make-work so-called deployments that the USAF historically and institutionally has used to justify its money-footprint and existence to the Joint Chiefs and the Congress, they scored a win for their fiefdom. But there isn't much understanding around regAF low level circles as to where that pound of flesh was gonna be taken from. As you're finding out, that's coming out of ARC, which you folks commonly know as the AFRC and ANGB Command/Bureau.
Picture this little happy Bob Ross winter scene for a second: You're a regAF dude. You're happy to get paid O-3/4 money with tax free 25% of your check on the 15th and 30th and get free medical, plus 30 days vaction a year you can't use but at least you're banking. Then regAF grinds you to a pulp. You try to hold on to the end of the commitment but say it, I'm out. So you look up the hill to the AFRC/ANG. While you're tripping over yourself to submit that palace chase application to the Dementors at AFPC, 19th is scoring a big win on the QOL by shielding their boys from CENTCOM's rent-seeking combat desk 179s/364s non-flyings' to Bullshitstan. But by the time you get out it's ripe time for AFRC to get hit with the new word of the day: involuntary individual mobs for all TRs. Coincidence? If only. So now here you are, happy wife happy life, never gonna do that again and wham! You get hit with the very tasker you quit Active Duty over in the first place, while the peers you literally left behind in Active Duty are shielded from it. Which is noted, you're going in their place after all. And you potentially lose your CJO at Delta for all your troubles. How you like them apples? Think I'm kidding? Like you said yourself, "not asked, but fvcking handed". Try hiring folks in that environment, plus a double commute.
So that's what's going on right now in the ARC. Caveat emptor.
That makes perfect sense, not a side of this I’ve paid attention to before to be honest. Whenever all my ANG/AFRC bros deployed I never looked at who was/wasn’t deployed on the AD side. Though between all the Slick units there was always someone out there moving those MRAP tires back and forth to justify their existence. Though your eloquence is much more gooder than mine.
You mentioned hiring folks in this shit...are there a lot of vacancies in the ARC? I can only assume that’s the case with them approving all these place chase apps. Makes sense to triple the remaining commitment and big blue keeps their grabby paws on them all the while trying to help the manning on that side of the fence.
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Just heard a buddy say that he had 2 place chases approved in his squadron in the last 5 days.
Dude #1 requested almost a year off his ADSC. UPT complete, but it was a PCS or training ADSC or something.
Dude #2 requested 16 months off ADSC for GI Bill. That one was approved by AFPC, some stipulation allowed it to remain at that level and not go to SAF.
Strike while the iron is hot!!
-Herk
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Just heard a buddy say that he had 2 place chases approved in his squadron in the last 5 days.
Dude #1 requested almost a year off his ADSC. UPT complete, but it was a PCS or training ADSC or something.
Dude #2: requested 16 months off ADSC for GI Bill. That one was approved by AFPC, some stipulation allowed it to remain at that level and not go to SAF.
I’ll never understand the AF, but my best guess is that you at least retain that experience in the total force since they have to serve their remaining commitment times 3 in the ANG/AFRC. Also, does this mean that ANG/AFRC is hurting even more than AD?
All the while 3 dudes in the Little Rock reserves quit at the last UTA since they were handed 120 day deployments. Yes, handed, not asked, but fvckin handed a deployment. It’s as if that AFRC squadron had an influx of AD and they feel the need to run it like AD.
I love how it’s collapsing on all sides!
(Will also post in the palace chase thread since this is pertinent in multiple areas)
-Herk
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On 2/6/2018 at 12:59 PM, matmacwc said:
Stan Evil and Chief of safety are used as holding grounds for future CC’s on active duty, doubt a flying only dude would get it.
I’ve seen plenty Chiefs of Safety in the CC holding pattern, but never in stan/eval. Have the stan/eval future CCs been worth a shit as opposed to the Safety, or is it all the same level of CYA and inability to make a decision that we’ve come to expect of a typical Sq/CC?
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Herks in Peterson, and almost everyone other location across the country...start looking for contacts. I've seen that thing on AMS with vacancies, but that will NEVER get you hired. Network, talk to UPT bros, and dudes in your squadron about who they know where. If you're a good dude they'll put in a good word.
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Anyone know if this "Total force board" or whatever the fvck it's called is making recommendations that SAF/PC is actually listening to? I figured it was the standard AF game of let's ask for inputs, sh!t can said inputs, and do whatever the hell we want.
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4 hours ago, Kelryin said:
Palace Chase approved! I originally asked for a 1 Dec 2017 separation date (16 months off ADSC), but SAF/PC countered with a 1 Aug 2018 date (8 months off ADSC). Package sat with SAF/PC for just over 19 weeks.
Just feel ecstatic to have normal life and work schedule soon.
UPT ADSC or something else?
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Anyone know much/have any experience with USAA's managed portfolios?
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I thought they went to 2.0 across the board at all active duty J units, not just the 41st.
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8 hours ago, Flyer1 said:
Duck, 11S
Are you passed over? Seems like a lot of time for big blue to give away on the verge of rumored stop loss. Especially for an 11S, which I assume is AFSOC...the hardest place to get out of.
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On March 18, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Hueypilot said:
The active duty squadrons have reduced manning to accommodate the Reservists.
They further reduced? About 2yrs ago they left a 2.3 crew ratio, so they reduced it again? No way in hell big blue would use any foresight when it comes to manning.
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27 minutes ago, SnapLock said:
Sooooo, where are these guard/reserve units that are sooooo undermanned? Every one that I talk to tells me they have 20-40 people applying for each open position. I've gone out of my way, I mean really out of my way, to find my way to a couple units' doorsteps. Initial impressions have been good and they take all my info and tell me they would love to have me, but they aren't hiring at the moment. Then I call a few months later and they tell me they don't have my info, don't remember me, and they just hired 3 new guys. Maybe this belongs in the guard/reserve section but I'm not seeing all of these "opportunities" in the guard or reserve like everyone is talking about. Sure, maybe I'm rushing the most desirable units, but still.... What gives? I'm a pointy nose type, but have talked to both omnivores and carnivores.
If they just hired 3 new guys I'd say they are hiring. Have you met them face to face or just phone/email?
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On March 30, 2016 at 10:29 PM, SurelySerious said:
So were you at fault in an accident?
Not as I understand it. Hit a deer; to my knowledge that's a not-fault, which was reinforced by my conversations with several other insurance companies who questioned why it was at fault.
This is gonna sound dumber than shit, but I know a SMSgt who talked to the USAA rep after hitting a deer. She told him that it's all about the wording. If "you hit a deer" it's your fault. If "the deer hit you" then it's not your fault. I called shenanigans, but he's not the type to make that sorta thing up.
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A buddy of mine a few classes behind me at UPT was a Blackhawk guy in the Army. He got picked up to fly Herks with the ANG. All he had to do was T-1s, and he had a completely separate syllabus. This was about 9yrs ago at Vance, so I don't know how things have changed or what his unit did to pull that off.
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On March 15, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Guardian said:
Oh. Sorry man. Do you have the super secret palace chase desk at afpc number to call and ask?
It's called the trunk line for some dumb ass reason. It's 2 SNCO's that work cases and can tell you the status without having to check CMS or whatever the system is called. I used it a year ago when I dropped my PC papers. They put my application on the next round that went to the SECAF's monthly meeting where the O-6 looks at the apps to make a final decision. They only did it cause my requested separation date minus days of terminal leave had already passed with no answer in sight.
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