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6 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
I don't disagree with your sentiment or that of your dad, but in the name of accuracy--- those aren't titles of the CSAF reading list. Those are featured TED talks. The books are Here. And they're mostly pretty good.
I will concede that many of the physical books look to be descent. But the TED talks are part of the "reading list" and are ridiculous. Further I'd point out, when you first go to the reading list, does it take you to the books page? No, it takes you to the Home tab, and what is featured front and center? Not the books, but the TED Talks. I do find it ironic that of the short list of 12 books 2 of them are about eating right while as referenced above they are discussing relaxing PT standards.
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So on a somewhat separate note, I was curious if any of you have seen this yet? I have a bit of a personal interest in military history, tactics, strategy etc... and I thought I'd like to do a little reading up on the topic. I thought to myself, no need to reinvent the wheel, surely there is a shortlist of must reads that already exists on this topic to get me started. Then I remembered one of the CSAF AF wide emails that referenced a reading list. A short google search later and here it is. Thing is, I'm honestly not surprised, but it just put it in a new light. I text the link to my dad who served in the 70s and 80s. His response, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? ing pussies all of them!!!!" Couldn't have said it better myself. Reality hits you hard bro.
http://static.dma.mil/usaf/csafreadinglist/index.html
For anyone who doesn't take the time, a quick summary of some of the leading titles
How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
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I suppose they may, in the past I've always waited until I came back from duty and filled it out by hand.
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Okay cool, I did not know you could sign PDF stuff. Forgive my newness. I will do that, in the meantime if anyone does happen to have a copy of the .xfdl file, I'd still like to get a copy so I can do it from home.
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I don't NEED it, I'm just on extended TDY and have to send a voucher back every month. It would be easier to just sign it digitally and email it than print it, sign it, scan it, email it.
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I'm not that dumb. It looks like they're there, but once you download it, it just says they've been removed. It refers you to the DoD site, but it's only in PDF there.
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The X-32 is the product of the F-35 mating with a Pelican.
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The forms are out there in PDF, I need the IBM forms format .xfdl
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I am in need of the IBM Forms version of a travel voucher. E-Pubs has removed the form as has every other outlet I know of to push people to DTS, but my unit still uses paper. Does anyone by chance have a copy saved they could send me? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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Anyone know anything about this? I couldn't find any other articles. Thoughts and prays with the crew.
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Of course, you are operating under the assumption that the government is paying for the things it is buying with tax dollars. Right now, we're paying with some IOUs.
Which will be paid with future tax dollars, future debt, or future inflation. That's like buying stuff with your credit card and saying it isn't being paid for with your income, maybe not today, but the credit card bill has to be paid with tomorrow's income.
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Napoleon started to hit upon what so many people seem to miss when talking about the government as a jobs program. The government can never create jobs. At best it will be a zero sum game. They take money out of the economy in the form of taxes, debt, or inflation and then reintroduce it back into the economy as if they somehow know what industries or products are needed more than others. This is not to say politicians are stupid, though this is often the case, but that no single actor can make such decisions as efficiently as all actors acting freely. Supply and demand will naturally result in the most efficient use of our resources. If we have too much of one product or service, the price will fall and people will produce less of it. If we have too little and it is in demand, more will be produced. However, no individual can obtain such knowledge. Therefore, any attempt to remove resources from the market via taxes, debt, or inflation to prop up one sector or company over another will only result in misappropriation of those funds and result in an inefficiency in the market. Whereas, if they were not removed in the first place they would have been use more efficiently to produce products and services of value. This is how jobs are created. Even if the government were somehow capable of doing this with 100% efficiency we would only break even because they would be making the same decisions that would otherwise be made. In reality, however, there are a multitude of layers of fraud, waist, and abuse along the way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anarchist, but my point is if the government stayed out of the way and allowed the economy to function freely, a far greater number of jobs would be created. It is easy to count a job created, but it is far harder to quantify the number of jobs that could have been created had the economy been allowed to function freely.
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I never really understood the hatred people have for a little jet noise from time to time. I live on about a 10 mile final for a major airport and enjoy sitting on the back deck on weekends, tuning in the scanner to the controlling agency, and listening/watching as they are go over.
Oh, and having a few beers while doing it of course.
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If dudes have cases flaring up from years ago, they've got some bad shit! That's why I always say wrap that shit up! Oh wait...you're talking about....nevermind.....
In all seriousness, I have a dirty sense of humor. I've joked at work...but even I know rape, sexual assault, harassment are bad. Does the Air Force really see an increasing problem here? (I don't have access to the stats) Is there a new generation of dirtiness entering our force or are we just overreacting? If we did a "cleanup" a few years back, wouldn't it stand to reason that we shouldn't still be having these problems?
It is kind of like the AF and its increasing focus on physical fitness over the past 12 years, but somehow our personnel medical costs still keep rising...weird.
You would think we would have fix the problem after all these years with all those great CBTs and "all calls." This isn't a new phenomenon and it certainly isn't something only in the flying community. Every few years we come up with new CBTs and even more sternly worded memos condemning these behaviors, but it isn't working. Maybe (and this is just me talking) this is a human behavior that can only be eradicated by focusing on the humans performing this behavior and removing them from service as opposed to trying to reassure those of us who already know this behavior is bad, that it is bad through additional CBTs and other time-wasting seminars. I don't know anyone in my dirty circle of friends who would tolerate this behavior, and I'm pretty sure it is the same with 93.1% of us in the AF. Lets focus on the other 6.9%...those dirty MFs!
I also don't have the statistics, but I'd like to know how we compare to the US population, i.e. there are x number of offenses per y number of total people vs the same numbers for the general populace. I imagine the AF has significantly less occurrences per capita. I've also yet to see a stated goal for the number of offenses. Obviously we are working toward zero, but we also know that's impossible. That being the case, if we don't define an acceptable number, and as stated, we'll never reach zero, then this continual focus on SAPR will never end. Further, I doubt we'll ever define an acceptable number because it would be unpopular. Who is going to stand up and publicly say any number of annual rapes are "acceptable." Finally, I'd argue that as time goes by and we do reach a number that is statistically representative of our lowest possible number of incidents, the rate will virtually cease to decrease, and in an effort to further decrease these numbers; briefs, training, etc will increase. Think exponential functions from calculus where the graph approaches but never reaches zero.
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My buddy was in one of the focus groups and he felt they were asking leading questions to get incriminating information.
And 3 on the briefing of "We won't investigate, but we'll turn it over to investigators" bit
What sorts of questions do you know?
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It's happening again...
I was recently ordered to attend an All Call at a certain pilot training base where we received a brief stating the witch hunts will resume. Apparently this is in response to all of the SARC events which have occurred over the last few years. They specifically referenced having done the whole "workplace cleanup" thing "two years ago" and said they had also previously focused on BMT & Tech School, and that pilot training was the next step. Per the brief, after pilot training will be ROTC. The job is being tackled by a task force consisting of 2 stenographers, a paralegal, an attorney, and two rated officers for translation purposes; but they assured us they will not be doing any investigating and won't be getting anyone in trouble. Of course this statement was followed up with, if we find anything we may have to turn it over to the chain of command for investigation, and then resumed the promises that THEY wouldn't be investigating anything. Of the 30 minute brief, probably 20 minutes was spent telling us what this was not, and I suspect if you are too new to read between the lines, you left not know what it WAS. They also selected people at random for "focus groups" and everything said in those meetings will be recorded, though they assured us that once the conversation was transcribed the recordings would be erased. Oh, and of course the transcription would be written in such a way as to provide anonymity to those who are speaking at the focus group. "Student 1 said..." or "Instructor Pilot 2 said..." Further, there is a hotline set up which will be active for the next month or two which will allow anyone to call in anonymously to make whatever report they want. At the end we were told Pilot Training has some amazing traditions and we want to keep all of the good parts. I couldn't help but to wonder the measure being used for good and bad, and I fear I already know the answer. I think it goes without saying that I don't support rape or sexual assault or anything else of the sort, but I suspect I already know how this movie ends and I don't like it.
What's wrong with the Air Force?
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No, I hadn't seen this, but I'll check it out. Thanks for the info.