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6 hours ago, Slightly slow, correcting said:
Found out this week I got selected on the LAF-A Maj board. Do increments start on Sept 1 or Oct 1?
Depends on Senate confirmation and when the previous list is exhausted.
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Here’s the link to the Senate nomination:
You can check the latest action, and you can surf around and see when it’s up for a vote on the committee/Senate calendars.
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6 hours ago, Chuck17 said:
Caveat: I’d expect quotas (i.e. ceiling to number of promotions per year) to follow in trail. So aircrew got what they wanted (a good thing, I think), now we will see how long it takes for us to start bitching about it...
This will be the obvious result...and will result in more sub-par MSG O's getting the nod. There were 14 out of 38 IPZ passed over in my career field, 6% below the mission support average. Assuming, some of those passed over were passed over for good reason, a "fair share" quota could have the perverse effect of promoting ~3 of those, and ensuring ~3 officers in some other category did not get the nod.
Hopefully they don't go with a "fair share" scheme and instead run some calculus on future requirements by category...but I don't trust the AFPC community's ability to do that sort of thing very well.
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On 9/8/2018 at 10:04 AM, ruckerstud said:
Along the lines of up or out going away, is anyone hearing anything about why this board is at the CJCS? Is it like the last Majors board where they are promoting a bunch of APZ guys. One the upside, at least I can laugh that I will be gettting my notification for the next board and my results from this board the same week.
Last several years it has been because they are not promoting joint dudes at the same rate as their in-service peers...i.e., officers on JS should have the same rate as HAF officers. Usually it's a one or two person deficiency (i.e., if you only have 20 people in the category, 1 person makes a 5% difference). However, it speaks to either the quality of folks we send to joint jobs, or the fact that they are left hanging when it comes to a push for promotion.
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On 7/13/2018 at 11:47 AM, ThreeHoler said:
I thought BPZ was limited to 10% but maybe I was mistaken.
Per law (DOPMA), you are correct, last I checked.
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3 hours ago, Day Man said:
Holy shit.
LOA club checking in: do you guys have an exclamation point after 'you are hereby admonished'? Always thought that was rather comical.
Per the usual. I think it has to be in there or it doesn’t hold up in court.
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Just now, Guardian said:
Ah. Makes sense. Interesting story. Want to exchange LOA stories over a beer?
Not sure it rates anything more than a Natty Lite.
I was going home early (for a year and a half at a sweet civilian grad school). I had a bayonet for absolutely no good reason. After my last convoy, in a fit of joy, I mounted it on my weapon and had people throw water bottles up while I tried to catch them.
Pictures were taken.
After I got on the plane home, some dudes got caught in some buffoonery of their own. They thought if the turned me in, it would save their stripes.
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20 hours ago, Guardian said:
Let’s hear the other story
Not glamorous. Got an LOA (the bad kind) on a deployment for some mostly harmless buffoonery, so came home dec-less. My OPR has already closed out and my next assignment was an AAD gig. I didn’t think to put deployment bullets in my training report, but, due some creative AFI reading, I got it put into my OPR at the following assignment.
The letter delicately explained why there was an out-of-place bullet in my ROP. I took the opportunity to attach the LOE/Form 77 from the deployment which had a ton of good stuff.
I don’t know if that made a difference, or the better PRF, but here I am.
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20 hours ago, HarleyQuinn said:
Mike: Why do I have to write my own PRF? AFI states blah blah blah.
Me: Few options here. 1. Just don't submit one. Be that guy to take one for the team to prove your point. 2. Talk to the boss. 3. File a complaint with IG. Then I explain how it acts as a mentorship process. Bros teaching bros how the process works and what a promotion board is looking for and how to write a good PRF. The Sq Exec, Gp/DS, Deputy OG/CC, and OG/CC will take care of the rest. You know your record better than anyone else. Would suck if CC wrote your PRF and totally missed a DG because it wasn't included in a TR or OPR, but was located in an MFR you have. Last thing you want is a PRF you don't like at all. This isn't a support squadron where there is one officer under the CC.
A few guys here at BODN and some mentors provided me with feedback on my first PRF. Thing was money for major! Even for Lt Col board PRF party people had great things to say. So thanks BODN.
Thoughts on numbnuts who doesn't want to write his PRF?
For my 1 BPZ board to O-5, the O-6 for my MAJCOM directorate found out I was "providing well-formatted inputs" into my PRF. My div chief got chewed out.
So, lesson learned. For my IPZ board, I merely provided my signed 1 BPZ PRF to my Sq/CC. He probably added a few things and passed up to the group. I didn't see it until it came back signed from the Wg/CC (not personally...hand delivered from the Exec) significantly watered down from my 1 BPZ.
Lo and behold, I was passed over.
1 APZ: moved on to a joint job. Took my 1 BPZ PRF, updated with some accomplishments from the past two OPRs, made a few adjustments and spoon fed to my Army supervisor. It made it up the chain nearly unmolested. No DP, but got picked up anyway (also wrote a letter to the board, but that is another story).
Going forward, If I'm ever in the position to have input into a subordinate's PRF, I, 1) do not intend to make them do their own, and 2), will not do it myself without giving them a heads up on what I'm putting down.
My lesson learned: write your own stuff. Make rank. Fix it when you get there. But, maybe I'm a bad person.
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On 6/9/2018 at 3:49 AM, FlyinGrunt said:
So the AF is too cowardly to let WG/CCs decide when it should and shouldn't be a one mistake Air Force. What a joke.
Undercutting CCs' authority is a huge part of why the AF is so broken, and this phenomenon isn't new. Cue Robin Olds' rant about his authority as an AAF O-4 vs a USAF O-7.
If they want to watch Rome burn, they have my support. Less than a month until I'm a free man!
I mean, it hasn't always worked out in the past...see the discussion on the forum below around June 3 regarding the former 375 AMW/CC:
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13 hours ago, Chromedome said:
Yeah, i tried to see how many folks competed last year but they haven't posted the 08 stats yet, the 07 stats had about ~2400 who went up to the board. Thats including the APZ folks.
As of EOM Feb 2018, per AFPC's RAW site, there were 2,395 active duty line captains who hadn't been somehow considered for a board before (there were 69 2009YG captains showing "selected" and 3 showing once deferred...not sure how that happens). Looking at years groups above, there appear to be about 283 APZ LAF Capts. So, that looks like a total of about 2,478 I/APZ LAF Capts.
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On 6/4/2018 at 2:05 PM, The_Vandall said:
Correct. The board has no access to medical status. The board results though, still need to go to through the HAF, SecAF, and OSD filters. And yup, just wild speculation/conspiracy theory on my part.
Indeed. I've never seen PRDA used as they specify in the promo board PSDM. I usually don't see my promo board folder uploaded until after the board meets, and they've never posted an "as met" folder in my PRDA.
Hmm...I've gotten an as-met board for every promotion board (BPZ/IPZ/APZ) and the RIF board since 2013...four total.
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On 6/4/2018 at 8:12 PM, HeloDude said:
And an alleged crime refers to not yet being convicted or acquitted when substantiated evidence shows there is reason to prosecute. I'm not an attorney, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I'm pretty sure you don't get charged with an "alleged crime." When you are charged, they are "alleging" that you committed a crime...they crime isn't alleged; you're guilt is. If they aren't certain a crime was committed (i.e., it is only an "alleged" crime), then they probably won't be charging anyone with it. I've been wrong before, but I'm pretty certain that's what JeremiahWeed was referring to..
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19 hours ago, celtic020 said:
This one I honestly can't believe. Screened and assigned to SQ/CC and passed over for O-5?
I saw a guy have to sit at a KOA for two weeks because he was already en route to take command when he was notified of being passed over. The gaining/hiring organization said they no longer wanted him.
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NAFs are supposed to be the assigned Air Force component to a COCOM. So, if you did away with 12 AF and AFCENT, would ACC report directly (under COCOM authority) to two different Combatant Commanders? I guess it works in USAFE-AFAFRICA, somehow, but proximity helps there. SOUTHCOM and CENTCOM would be hard-pressed to share stuff.
That said, you probably have some unnecessary ones (18th AF and anything in AETC stand out). Global Strike may or may not need them either.
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On 5/23/2018 at 9:23 PM, HU&W said:
AFI51-604 para 10 is the reference you're looking for. Emphasis added. "Only line of the AF officers with a current aeronautical rating, as defined by AFI 11-402, may command flying units (any unit that has flying, planning and directing the employment of manned and remotely piloted aircraft as their primary mission). The rated officer must hold a currently effective aeronautical rating or crewmember certification, and must be qualified for aviation service in an airframe flown by the unit to be commanded. (T-1)"
If it’s not “T-0” at the end, it’s waiverable (CSAF or SECAF in this case, I think).
Sorry I know that.
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14 hours ago, Skitzo said:
UFB
After spending six months in MX I am convinced that the mindset problem in the USAF is not in OPS or MX. This confirms my thought process.
Johnny is a real fast burner in MSG, we need him desperately at the A1 so we can craft the next PT policy that will clearly solve our woes.
Although I will say I did get a call back from the FSS Ops O today saying he would look into our problem with the indoor track at Cannon. For some reason running indoors over 20 laps adds :50 to an average run time, so maybe there is hope.
Not bagging on you Weezer just find it odd that joint jobs are less desirable than HAF jobs.
I don’t mind if you bag on me...I understand. Lurking around here long enough, I get a tiny sense of what you guys think/feel about those of us not in the operations community.
As much criticism as the 2014 RIF gets for its effect on the rated community, the MSG went through several cuts prior to that, going back to ‘05. Those cuts coincided to times when we had a ton of guys fragged out to support joint and other service missions in CENTCOM. Deploy often and long enough, and you don’t get SOS DL done or no exec jobs and you’re on the chopping block. You guys know the deal.
So this negative selection of people out doing combat-related missions (traditional Air Force or not) creates the environment you see in non-OG communities today.
I’ve said before there needs to be more inter-breeding and cross-pollination between Ops and Support.
I love my joint job...I haven’t touched my primary area of expertise for almost 2 years and gained a whole new set of knowledge. I’ve gotten to do staff work that made its way up to NSC and POTUS (well, as a backup slide). Of course, since I made O-5 and am resurrected, they’re cutting it short to send me to...wait for it...HAF/A4.
But, in the words of the warontherocks article...I’m just “happy to be here.”
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4 minutes ago, Champ Kind said:
How does someone heading to JCS get passed over?
Truth in advertising: it's a satellite J3 office down in Norfolk, not the Pentagon. If you've seen some of my past posts, you'll see I'm also not an aviator. Some mission support career fields don't place as much value on JCS positions (weird). Shiny pennies go to HAF and work tribal programs. They'll send "second-tier" guys like me to stuff like this.
The flyers that we've had down here are upwardly mobile (they have all made O-6 within a year of getting here). Of the mission support folks: I came here passed over, another guy got passed over while here, several guys come here and get ROAD, and a few others are very junior majors or senior captains with a line number, so it doesn't seem to matter much.
I was fortunate to have a mission-minded aviator-type help me out, and I am forever grateful.
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15 minutes ago, backseatdriver said:
You got passed over while working at the JCS? Or did you PCS there after the board?
I got my non-select notification 3 weeks before departing my last assignment (al Udeid short tour) to head to Joint Staff. The push line on my non-select PRF, ironically, was for Joint Staff.
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14 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
All the promoted APZs I personally know had a DP...but there are still unicorns. According to the AFPC lady, the pushes for APZ that are above the line include all the “Super P” items: strat, next DP verbiage, CC/HAF+/SDE push with top/recent OPRs to match.
I got picked up last year 1 APZ. I was sitting in Joint Staff, got a #2/16 strat on the bottom line along with a push for SDE and Sq/CC. Did not get a "super P" at all.
Pretty surprised when I got the news, but AFPC lady was pretty clear that that command push was 75% of what did me for IPZ.
Funny enough, my (successful) APZ PRF looked a lot like my 1BPZ and 2BPZ. Only my IPZ one looked drastically different. Almost as if my SR was deliberately sending a message flagging me as mediocre.
Also wrote a letter to the board.
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On 4/23/2018 at 11:47 PM, dream big said:
Interesting, why did wing commanders have to provide a “yes or no” if they were going to second guess all the recommendations!? God this level of incompetence...
Probably checking everyone's Facebook feed for dinosaur puppet videos.
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On 3/17/2018 at 9:15 PM, Duck said:
Does JohnQ know about this extortion? I don’t mean to complain, I know there are places where people would have paid anything to be able to skype home and there was no internet available. I just don’t get where free internet turned into $100/month.
It was an AFCENT/A6 budgetary "initiative" in 2015...they uncovered some sort of policy issue with providing it anywhere except "common areas." I don't recall all of the details, and I'd rather forget, anyway.
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5 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
So then.. almost nothing for the Comm Squadrons to shed. Cool...keep shitting on us, I'm sure support will only get better.
It’s not a cut drill...they’re not losing manpower (except for group leadership...which is just morphing into the deputies/A-staff). If the functions were pulled up to the staff, you actually would lose bodies. The “improvement” is supposed to be process related, not shedding work or gaining manpower.
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6 hours ago, pawnman said:
That's where I see this going. Squadrons continuing to do the work to prove that they need the MAJCOM to do these functions, except now squadrons will no longer have the ability to "just make it happen" and will be dependent on a staffing process that will take a significant amount of time.
Add that to the fact that the RSAP is depleting bodies from the staff (for better or worse), so the staffs don't have the manpower to do all the things this seems to be pushing onto them.I guess my post wasn’t clear...this is the wing-level A-staff, not the NAF or MAJCOM.
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