Everything posted by Sprkt69
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Boeing unveils its T-38 replacement
They have taken that flight out of the syllabus a long time ago.
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Boeing unveils its T-38 replacement
Go with reason
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Boeing unveils its T-38 replacement
I'm sure the lawyers are already drawing up the war plans and foaming at the mouth
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Just join the Guard/Reserves. Get paid to do the same thing with a lot less hassle and get a signing bonus on top of it. Then go part time FTMFW
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Changing/Switching airframes
Did anyone mention get rid of the Gp/CC?
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
AFPC does not know where they are going to send you until about half way through FTU like Jaded said. When you have almost another year till you arrive to your first CAF assignment, that is many VMLs away and AFPC has not been known to plan that far into the future well.
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Changing/Switching airframes
Anyone with two working brain cells saw this exodus more than 10 yrs ago. The amazing thing was that our pretty darn good upper management ignored/denied all the signs even after being directly briefed
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Changing/Switching airframes
You only need a couple of hours in a T-38 and you'll be ready for IFF right?
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Changing/Switching airframes
HAF A3 has already said that the CAF will accept the risk of a lesser FTU product. I would bet good money they have not thought through what that actually means for the guys on the line This kind of AD leadership is what got us into this mess in the first place and are continuing to dig the hole deeper
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Anyone else read this? Replace the Navy speak with AF speak, and it represents the fighter community well. https://fightersweep.com/6171/is-naval-aviation-culture-dead/
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Changing/Switching airframes
The best thing for these cross trainees would be to get out as soon as possible and get to a Reserve/Guard unit ASAP. And 60 hrs of qweep a week may be on the light side. Cross trainees will find that there are not a lot of extra warm bodies around to do the work. I believe that it's a great experience for the dudes willing to try. I just don't think the AD AF is going to be kind in the assignment process
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Changing/Switching airframes
Hence they show up to a new MDS as a major select or quickly going to the Majors board. The Lts should not have the same issues as the older guys, but it'll be luck and timing.
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Changing/Switching airframes
AFPC and HAF just wants their slides to be greened up. So if the promotion board is what you are worried about, it should not be an issue.
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Changing/Switching airframes
I just envision AFPC punishing these poor soles severely for cross training so late in their career.
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How do you feel about your airframe and mission?
And you also know a lot of E crew go all E Mafia on you without the ability to take any criticism like a good aviator should, ala Kirtland. It may not be a bad thing, it's just a different cultural upbringing.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Exactly. Big Blue will not see a problem until they turn around and all their mobility pilot have left. Just like the fighters.
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Close Air Support
Never said or claimed aviation is the only means of fires. Some of the guided artillery works great, but is limited to just attempting to achieve desired weapons effects. I will say arty can and should be involved in any fight with the proper deconfliction. Even 8 LAARs would be far cheaper to operate than a 2 ship if Vipers. So what you gain is economy, and the ability to operate in multiple locations simultaneously while being able to absorb losing an aircraft to maintenance, damage, etc. with minimal impact to the overall mission. Unless you are going with some dedicated variant of an AC-130, a dash 8 with relatively expensive hellfires compared to laser guided rockets or cannon, is still significantly more expensive in fuel, arms, maintenance and aircrew especially if one goes down for any reason, My point of the ability to maneuver is that sometimes you have to square the corner in order to take a shot that has to be on a certain axis in a timely manner when you do not have the minutes for a dash 8 or some kind of MC-12 variant to get around the wheel.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Did you stray from your safe space at some point?
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
I don't believe that would be true. The money saved would probably be overshadowed by higher turnover.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Did you just wake up from passing out on the toilet again? Or just jealous because you love Judge Judy and drinking "coffee"?